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Memories are not only in the brain, new research finds
It turns out your brain might not be the only part of your body that remembers. Scientists at NYU have found that cells outside the brain—like those from your kidneys—can actually “learn” and form memories. By mimicking how the brain processes information using spaced repetition (as in studying with breaks), researchers showed that even non-brain cells can activate a key memory gene in response to patterns. This suggests memory isn’t just a brain thing—it might be a basic feature of many cells in the body.
Goodyear designed a tire that could help cars fly
Goodyear has unveiled a new concept tire that would work as both a propeller for a flying car, and a regular tire.
Flying cars, though still very much science fiction, could one day disrupt Goodyear’s tire business. If flying cars ever take over the roadways — and skyways — Goodyear would want a chunk of that market.
Teens who made history with Pythagoras’ theorem discovery publish their first academic paper with new proofs
In their peer-reviewed work, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson present five new ways of proving Pythagoras' Theorem via trigonometry. They also detail a new method for finding proofs that yield at least five more.
Brian Boyd on the Origin of Stories
Seven months before ChatGPT launched, I spent two hours with Brian Boyd on a question that now feels urgent: why do humans tell stories at all?
Boyd is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, the world’s foremost Nabokov scholar, and author of On the Origin of Stories. His answer isn’t literary. It’s #evolution.
Story, he argues, is an adaptation. It lets us track cause and effect, sure. But it also does something stranger: it lets us explore the world not only as it is, but as it could be.
Now look at where we are. We’ve built machines that produce stories by the billion. Fluent, endless, cheap. But do they know which details matter and which to ignore? Do they grasp what happens next, and why? That puzzle has a name in #ArtificialIntelligence, the frame problem, and Boyd’s take on it surprised me.
We also went places I didn’t plan for. Heider and Simmel’s famous triangle film (watch it and try NOT to see a story). Why Boyd calls art “cognitive pattern play.” Religion as perhaps the most powerful #storytelling ever. And why social media is a misguided attempt to control our own story.
Then there’s Karl Popper, the giant of #philosophy of science whose biography Boyd was writing when we spoke. Where Popper lands on science, stories, and revolutions is worth the listen alone.
Qualcomm CEO Hints That Smartphones Capable Of Running 100B LLMs Could Arrive By 2028, Without Addressing Two Elephants In The Room; DRAM Supply & Cost
A distilled 20B to 30B model can approach the quality of a 100B when running on a smartphone. This appears as the more marketable strategy for companies as it’s the most realistic. Sadly, Qualcomm’s CEO making such statements without outlining a roadmap won’t get us any closer to running denser models on smartphones, but it’s still a nice thought to imagine these devices having the same capabilities as bigger machines.
About the author: Omar Sohail is a reporter and analyst for Wccftech’s mobile section, specializing in the technology and business of the mobile industry. His expertise lies in the intricate hardware supply chain, covering developments in semiconductor manufacturing, chip lithography, and camera sensor technology.
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A molecular switch syncs fat burning to the body clock, our diet and the temperature around us
Brown fat burns fuel to make heat, and this activity is controlled by the body clock: It drops during sleep and rises before waking. But a cold morning or a skipped meal makes demands the clock never planned for. How the body keeps to a fixed energy timetable while still improvising has long been a puzzle.
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) now show that SLC25A34, a little-studied protein in the mitochondria of fat cells, acts as a switch that connects the body clock, temperature and diet to how fat cells store and spend energy. The study was published in Science.
“We usually think of the body clock, the response to temperature and the response to food as separate systems. A mitochondrial transporter that is tuned by the⁰ time of day, the temperature and what we eat) raises the possibility of therapies that shift when and how the body burns fuel. That would be a different kind of lever from today’s obesity and diabetes treatments,” says corresponding author Zach Gerhart-Hines, an associate professor at CBMR.