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Scientists have built noise-canceling headphones that filter out specific types of sound in real-time — such as birds chirping or car horns blaring — thanks to a deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm.

The system, which researchers at the University of Washington dub “semantic hearing,” streams all sounds captured by headphones to a smartphone, which cancels everything before letting wearers pick the specific types of audio they’d like to hear. They described the protoype in a paper published Oct. 29 in the journa IACM Digital Library.

It is a big setback for OpenAI, and could slow the industry as a whole | Business.

Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish from the Paleozoic era and figure out how it moved.

By Lauren Leffer

Engineer Ross M. Brown, who built and sold an industrial conglomerate for more than $400 million, is donating nearly all his wealth to promising mid-career chemistry and physics professors at a range of universities.

Most things have a beginning and an end, including time itself. What was the spark that made it begin, and what will one day bring it to an end?

SpaceX Starship 25 and Super Heavy booster 9 launched to orbit on Nov. 18, 2023 from the Starbase facility in South Texas. Following the launch, the booster had a Rapid Unplanned Disassembly (RUD) shortly after separation.

Starship consists of a first-stage booster called Super Heavy and an upper-stage spacecraft known (a bit confusingly) as Starship. Both of these elements are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. SpaceX thinks the vehicle will make the settlement of Mars — a long-held dream of company founder and CEO Elon Musk — economically feasible in the not-too-distant future.

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Get ready to have your minds blown because Quantum AI is about to flip the script on the world! Imagine computers that don’t just crunch numbers but tap into the mind-bending power of quantum bits or qubits. Quantum AI isn’t just a fancy upgrade; it’s like giving our digital brains a cosmic turbo boost. From supercharging data processing to tackling complex problems like a quantum superhero, this game-changer is set to redefine what we thought computers could do. Get ready for a tech revolution – Quantum AI is the rockstar that’s about to drop a mind-blowing album on the world of computing! 🚀💻🌌

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StoreDot’s extreme fast charging (XFC) tech delivers 100 miles of range in just five minutes of charging.

Yea, so word is Anti AI / aka Al SAFETY people were able to get on the board.

Altman’s ousting is related to internal disagreements about AI safety and speed of development.