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Jan 10, 2024
Steam :: Steamworks Development :: AI Content on Steam
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in categories: entertainment, policy, robotics/AI
Valve has changed its policy and will now allow games made by AI, or that use AI generated content, to be sold on Steam.
Back in June, we shared that while our goal continues to be shipping as many games as possible on Steam, we needed some time to learn about the fast-moving and legally murky space of AI technology, especially given Steam’s worldwide reach. Today, after spending the last few months learning more about this space and talking with game developers, we are making changes to how we handle games that use AI technology. This will enable us to release the vast majority of games that use it.
Jan 10, 2024
‘Batteries are dead’: Indoor solar panel breakthrough offers endless power source, company claims
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: solar power, sustainability
A US startup has demonstrated an indoor solar panel that it claims could replace billions of batteries in domestic devices like TV remotes and wireless keyboards.
California-based Ambient Photonics said its new solar cell can provide constant power from just indoor and ambient outdoor light, delivering three times more power than existing technologies.
Solar power has been used for decades in low-power electronics like calculators, though such cells have so far not been suitable for more energy-intensive devices.
Jan 10, 2024
Price’s Law and Its Implications on Society Amid Exponential Change and Artificial General Intelligence
Posted by Chris Smedley in category: futurism
Jan 10, 2024
Singularity Ready: Stoicism as a singularity life philosophy
Posted by Chris Smedley in categories: education, singularity
We explore various philosophies and its principles to assess their appropriateness as guides in these accelerating exponential times
Stoicism.
Stoicism is a philosophical school that originated in ancient Greece and was founded by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. Stoicism emphasizes rationality, virtue, and self-control as the key to leading a good life.
The philosophy teaches that individuals should focus on what they can control, accept what they cannot control, and remain indifferent to external circumstances beyond their control.
Jan 10, 2024
New Kind of Magnetism Spotted in an Engineered Material
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: materials
In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’ spins to align.
Jan 10, 2024
NASA has funded the development of new laser communications technology through small business Fibertek Inc. to help enable communications on Artemis II
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, space
NASA is working with private industry partners and small businesses under Artemis to produce scalable, affordable, and advanced laser communications systems that could enable greater exploration and discovery beyond Earth for the benefit of all.
Laser, or optical, communications provide missions with increased data rates – meaning that missions using laser technology can send and receive more information in a single transmission compared with those using traditional radio waves. When a spacecraft uses laser communications to send information, infrared light packs the data into tighter waves so ground stations on Earth can receive more data at once. Laser communications systems can provide 10 to 100 times higher data rates than the radio systems used by space missions today.
As science instruments evolve to capture high-definition data, missions will need expedited ways to transmit information to Earth. It would take roughly nine weeks to transmit a complete map of Mars back to Earth with current radio frequency systems. With lasers, it would only take about nine days.
Jan 10, 2024
‘One of the best valuations for AI’: Buy the dip in this Big Tech stock, strategist says
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
Nvidia has been an investor favorite for AI, but other firms have been busy building their capabilities too. Matt Orton names one he says is “underappreciated.”
Jan 10, 2024
The Most Secretive Longevity Lab Finally Opens Its Doors
Posted by Arthur Brown in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Retro Biosciences, a startup with $180 million from Sam Altman, has a simple and audacious goal: Add 10 good years to your life. And until now, we haven’t had a glimpse of its best ideas.
Contrary to reports of negative effects, postprandial insulin spikes are associated with improvements in a longitudinal study.