Editor’s note: “Nuclear Power Breakthrough Makes “Limitless” Energy Possible” was previously published in December 2022. It has since been updated to include the most relevant information available.
For a moment, imagine a world of limitless energy – one where energy is so abundant that everyone can power their homes and businesses for mere pennies.
These days, it’s tough to imagine a world like that. Last winter, the average U.S. heating bill was $1,000.
TerraPower, founded by billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 2008, is opening a new nuclear power plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming. The plant will be the first of its kind, with the company hoping to revolutionize the nuclear energy industry in the U.S. to help fight climate change and support American energy independence.
“Nuclear energy, if we do it right, will help us solve our climate goals,” Gates told ABC News. “That is, get rid of the greenhouse gas emissions without making the electricity system far more expensive or less reliable.”
Gates met with ABC News’ chief business, economics, and technology correspondent Rebecca Jarvis in Kemmerer to talk about the project.
Shap-E is a model that allows you to generate 3D objects from text, building off OpenAI’s other AI tools.
New rumors reveal that the Nvidia RTX 4,060 Ti could be coming out as soon as May 2023, with two other models following in July 2023.
A Twitter engineer says the app accessed his phone’s mic as he slept, prompting Musk’s response, though he has an incentive to attack a rival app. WhatsApp blames the issue on a Google bug.
The Work Trend Index report found that leaders believe analytical judgment, flexibility and emotional intelligence are essential skills for the future of work.
In two landmark experiments, researchers used quantum processors to engineer exotic particles that have captivated physicists for decades. The work is a step toward crash-proof quantum computers.
Scientists at UT Austin conducted a study where they created a 3D view of a person’s mind and used artificial intelligence to decode brain activity into dialogue.
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Researchers have engineered a robotic lionfish with synthetic arteries, similar to those found in a human’s circulatory system. The fish “blood” that runs through it serves as both the robot’s power source and controls its movement. The findings, published Wednesday in Nature, may propel the new wave of soft robots, in which inventors seek to improve lifelike automated machines for human connection.
Synthetic blood vessels in a new robotic fish could improve the technology needed to make lifelike robots run longer.
