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Gender characteristics of service robots can influence customer decisions

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First-in-human clinical trial testing CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing in 12 highly metastatic, end-stage GI cancer patients saw several of their cancer growth halt & not return over 2 year period.

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Family uses AI to create video for deadly Chandler road rage victim's own impact statement.

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College: ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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In a win for combatting microplastic pollution. new robots in Seattle can sort waste into recycling categories with 90% accuracy.

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A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse: A new wave of “reasoning” systems is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.

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What if future robots are mostly cheap, open-source, and owned by everybody? Researchers in California have developed a humanoid robot that is 3D printed and costs just $5,000.

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Is Open-Source vs. Proprietary AI the real AI race, not US vs. Chinese AI, and is Open-Source winning?

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A new crowd-trained way to develop LLMs over the internet could shake up the AI industry with a giant 100 billion-parameter model later this year.

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The AI jobs crisis is here, now: It's not coming, it has already arrived.

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A Swedish company deploying underwater tidal kites in the Faroe Islands, says 500 of them would supply 100% of Alaska's electricity needs.

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HuidaGene Therapeutics used CRISPR gene-editing (Cas13) to modify genes in the brain for the first time, successfully treating a 9-year-old with MECP2 duplication syndrome.

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New research shows the top reason people are using generative AI is for therapy and companionship.

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New York wants to use AI and cameras to detect subway crime before it happens.

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UPS in Talks With Startup Figure AI to Deploy Humanoid Robots.

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Used EV batteries could power vehicles, houses or even towns if their manufacturers share vital data.

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Carnegie Mellon researchers have used FRESH 3D bioprinting to 3D-print living tissue that has cured Type 1 diabetes in lab tests.

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Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI

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Universal Basic Income: Costs, Critiques, and Future Solutions

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Cryptocurrency may be evolving into a shadow banking system

  • Yeah, I wonder how far they can extend the magnetic fields that power them? Even if it is relatively short range, they look really cheap to make, so you could have thousands of them with sensors to scan localized areas.

  • I get that capacitators are only good for seconds at a time, but given their other advantages, I wonder why people don't build batteries with them, where hundreds or thousands of cells are individual capacitators that get used in sequence.

  • This is better than nothing. Though a lot of the threats that are building, like conflict with Russia, seem like they will need more.

  • Lariocidin is produced by a type of bacteria called Paenibacillus, which the researchers retrieved from a soil sample collected from a Hamilton backyard.

    It's amazing how random this discovery was. Makes you wonder at all the rest that is still undiscovered in nature.

  • 1X is in Norway. Norwegians are notoriously solitary and hate small talk. Of all people it would be interesting to see how they react to domestic humanoid robots. Perhaps they will like them more than most.

  • Wrong. The World Bank says 13% of Indians live in extreme poverty & 97% of the population have wired electricity. Also, surely the way to be richer and more developed is investing in high tech growth industries like advanced space tech?

  • Its the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) who've said this, and they've a pretty good track record of achieving stated goals.

  • It is interesting that they have successfully tested the magnetic micro-algae in tightly confined and viscous environments. Those are the same conditions they would find in living tissue and blood vessels.

    Still, this is just a proof-of-concept. I wonder if any useful treatments for illness ever come from it.

  • So if all goes to plan there should be three space stations in 2028 - when will there be a fourth? Russia has plans for an Russian Orbital Service Station. While no one doubts Russia has the necessary technical expertise, can it spare diverting the cash from its war in Ukraine?

    Presumably that will be a commercial one someday, it doesn't seem like any other countries are in the pipeline for developing one. The ISS is slated to be deorbited around 2030. The US & ESA/Canada might well part ways when the ISS is decommissioned, and it seems unclear what will replace the ISS, and exactly how much longer it will last.

  • In fairness to China, they are now the world leader in battery tech, and delivering on their promises.

  • This is only in 4 patients so far yet the results look amazing. 20 million people globally are living with some form of spinal cord injury. Hopefully insights gained from this work will quickly mean treatments for what was once seen as incurable.

  • I always thought network states were just online communities

    Perhaps for some, but the idea of making them physical territories has always been there too, and arguably is the idea in the ascendant now.

  • From Galileo to Newton to Einstein, we've so many times had our ideas of the Universe completely and utterly upended. It seems to me when people talk about dark matter and dark energy, they're just tinkering with current ideas. When we really find the explanation, our ideas of what reality is will be completely shaken once again.

  • Rock From Mars has reached Earth so many times via asteroid ejecta, I assume the opposite has happened. In which case if there is life there surely the probability is it comes from Earth?

  • I wonder how long before the AI investor bubble bursts? OpenAI are still talking about raising hundreds of billions of dollars.

  • According to the scientists, knowledge about the role of NEAT1 methylation in the recognition and repair of DNA damage could open up new therapeutic options for tumors with high NEAT1 expression. However, it must first be clarified whether these results, which were obtained in simple cell systems, can also be transferred to complex tumor models.

    I wonder is AI developments can speed up this process of going from lab to (hopefully) a therapeutic treatment that is available.

  • How are we supposed to police this? A vast global Orwellian monitoring system seems even worse.