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May 20, 2022

FDA approves first live, non-replicating vaccine to prevent smallpox and monkeypox

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

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May 20, 2022

AI may be searching you for guns the next time you go out in public

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, surveillance

A Massachusetts company says it could help stop shootings like the Tops massacre in Buffalo. Its surveillance product is increasingly popular — and, critics say, problematic.

May 20, 2022

NASA releases eerie ‘singing’ from a black hole and it’s straight out of a horror movie

Posted by in categories: cosmology, media & arts

Discover Music.

Vangelis.

May 20, 2022

NASA’s Bill Nelson declares that China has become ‘good at stealing’

Posted by in category: space

China and the U.S. are engaged in a new stage of the second space race, and NASA Chief Bill Nelson allegedly attributes our rival’s success to ‘stealing’.

May 20, 2022

China and Russia are on track to set up a Moon base by 2036 — here’s the plan

Posted by in category: space

The politics of Earth play out on the Moon, too.


China and Russia’s space agencies are planning a rival to NASA’s Lunar Gateway. Here’s what you need to know about their ambitions and timeline.

May 20, 2022

Is DeepMind’s Gato AI really a human-level intelligence breakthrough?

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

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DeepMind has released what it calls a “generalist” AI called Gato, which can play Atari games, accurately caption images, chat naturally with a human and stack coloured blocks with a robot arm, among 600 other tasks. But is Gato truly intelligent having artificial general intelligence or is it just an AI model with a few extra tricks up its sleeve?

What is artificial general intelligence (AGI)?

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May 20, 2022

SciShots: A quartet of brain cells

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Allen Institute neuroscientist JoAnn Buchanan and team are studying the interaction between two kinds of non neuronal brain cells, a microglia (shown in purple)… See more.


Scientists are sifting through the hundreds of thousands of brain cells present in a cubic millimeter of mouse brain.

May 20, 2022

DARPA reveals a new heavy-lift seaplane concept that can sense large waves

Posted by in category: futurism

May 20, 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope can now track moving targets in our solar system

Posted by in category: space

May 20, 2022

The highest quality images of the Earth’s interior have just been captured

Posted by in category: futurism