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WEB5 days ago · This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 31) Singularity Hub Staff - August 31, 2024. Some Brains Develop Alzheimer’s—Others Don’t. A New Cell Map Could Explain Why. Shelly Fan - August 30, 2024.
Nanorobots: Where We Are Today and Why Their Future Has …
WEBMay 16, 2016 · The new nano-engines could lead to nanorobots small enough to enter living cells to fight disease, the researchers say. Professor Jeremy Baumberg from the Cavendish Laboratory, who led the research, has named the devices ‘actuating nanotransducers’ (ANTs). ‘Like real ants, they produce …
This Wild Video Maps the Entire Internet and Its Evolution Since …
WEBFeb 28, 2021 · This Wild Video Maps the Entire Internet and Its Evolution Since 1997. In the early days of digital computing, the machines were monolithic and isolated. They didn’t communicate. In fact, they couldn’t communicate. There was no lingua franca. This problem was no secret. Computer scientists had been working on ways to network computers as ...
This Gates-Backed Startup Builds Modular Homes Out of Energy …
WEBAug 3, 2022 · Vantem’s energy-efficient prefabricated homes are made of structural panels. The panels were designed as a replacement for brick and cement, which are expensive, difficult to make, and heavy on emissions. Each panel consists of an insulating layer sandwiched by tiles made of a cement-like material. Since the panels are more similar to …
Where Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox
WEBSep 2, 2019 · Named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, the paradox describes the seeming contradiction between the potential for intelligent life in the cosmos and the fact that we have yet to detect any. Other scientists like Frank Drake have attempted to quantify the statistical probability of life existing elsewhere in the universe.
How Many Galaxies Are There in the Universe | Singularity Hub
WEBJan 15, 2021 · Added to existing Hubble observations, their results suggested such galaxies make up 90 percent of the total, leading to a new estimate—that there may be up to two trillion galaxies in the universe. Such estimates, however, are a moving target. As more observations roll in, scientists can get a better handle on the variables at play and ...
‘Dancing Ghosts’: A New, Deeper Scan of the Sky Throws Up …
WEBAug 5, 2021 · The Dancing Ghosts were just one of several surprises found in our first deep search of the sky using ASKAP. This search, called the EMU Pilot Survey, is described in detail in a paper soon to appear in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. The first ‘Odd Radio Circle’. Radio data are green and the white and coloured ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says His Company Is Now Building GPT-5
WEBNov 15, 2023 · At an MIT event in March, OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman said his team wasn’t yet training its next AI, GPT-5. “We are not and won’t for some time,” he told the audience. This week, however, new details about GPT-5’s status emerged. In an interview, Altman told the Financial Times the company is now working to develop GPT-5.
Quantum Computing and Reinforcement Learning Are Joining …
WEBMar 16, 2021 · The result is a reinforcement learning AI that learned over 60 percent faster than its non-quantum-enabled peers. This is one of the first tests that shows adding quantum computing can speed up the actual learning process of an AI agent, the authors explained. Although only challenged with a “toy problem” in the study, the hybrid AI, once ...
Why Can’t You Remember the First Years of Your Life? What …
WEBJul 24, 2022 · Between 18 and 24 months, toddlers touch their own nose, even looking embarrassed, suggesting that they connect the red dot in the mirror with their own face—they have some sense of self. Another possible explanation for infantile amnesia is that because infants don’t have language until later in …
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