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Aug 12, 2023

A new chip can power the billions of calculations the AI age requires

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Nvidia is making a superchip powerful enough for the demands of modern computing. NvidiaHere’s what’s coming from Nvidia’s upgraded GPUs.

Aug 12, 2023

How China Is Using Artificial Intelligence in Classrooms

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI

Well…the New Empire is Rising…


A growing number of classrooms in China are equipped with artificial-intelligence cameras and brain-wave trackers. While many parents and teachers see them as tools to improve grades, they’ve become some children’s worst nightmare.

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Aug 12, 2023

Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks, robotics/AI

Heads of OpenAI, Google Deepmind and Anthropic say the threat is as great as pandemics and nuclear war.

Aug 12, 2023

Humans removed so much groundwater it tilted Earth 31.5 inches

Posted by in category: futurism

Earth’s rotational axis drifts naturally but its direction shifted east in the 1990s.

Aug 12, 2023

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

Just throwing this out there…


Earlier this month, Meta showed staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter.

Aug 12, 2023

Could Rotifers be the Next Great Laboratory Model?

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

Rotifers are multicellular, microscopic marine animals that live in soils and freshwater environments. They are transparent and can be easily grown in large numbers. As such, they have been used in some laboratories as research subjects for many years. Now scientists have found a way to manipulate the rotifer genome, which can make them far more useful for many different research applications.

In new work reported in PLOS Biology, scientists used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool to alter two rotifer genes. These edits were then passed down to future generations of rotifers. This effort can now help others use these organisms in their laboratories.

Aug 12, 2023

Major Upgrade Will Boost Power of World’s Brightest X-ray Laser

Posted by in category: futurism

Upgrade will sharpen our view of nature’s atomic processes at work, aiding the development of a number of transformative technologies.

Aug 12, 2023

3D Haptic Display Melds Touch With Tech

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Sensing, shape-morphing devices take aim at medical and consumer applications.

Aug 12, 2023

It looked like a bizarre alignment of meteors. It was something else

Posted by in categories: internet, satellites

Astronomers are calling arrays of thousands of satellites, like that of Starlink’s, “mega constellations” because of their overwhelming presence in the night sky.

Aug 12, 2023

Watch the Perseid meteor shower tonight with this free telescope livestream

Posted by in categories: habitats, space

Skywatchers can enjoy the popular Perseid meteor shower from the comfort of their own homes when it peaks on Saturday (Aug.12) and Sunday (Aug. 13).