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A person can weed about one acre of crops a day. This smart robot can weed 20.

Carbon Robotics has unveiled the third-generation of its Autonomous Weeder, a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then destroys them with high-power lasers.

The weedkiller challenge: Weeds compete with plants for space, sunlight, and soil nutrients. They can also make it easier for insect pests to harm crops, so weed control is a top concern for farmers.

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Artificial intelligence is helping humans make new kinds of art. It is more likely to emerge as a collaborator than a competitor for those working in creative industries. Film supported by Mishcon de Reya.

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The next era of astronomy will be defined by a wider view of the cosmos.

The next era of our investigation of the cosmos is about to be kick-started by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a ground-based telescope currently under construction on the El Penón peak of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile. The observatory is a federal project run by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy.

The new observatory — named in honor of astronomer Vera Rubin — is scheduled to begin operations in October 2023, according to a statement published on the Rubin Observatory website. When it’s up and running, Rubin will allow astronomers to consider some of the universe’s most pressing mysteries.

NASA has never flown its own astronauts to and from space for a mission this long. Now SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship must bring them back to Earth.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. earnings will serve as an indication if the data-center market is truly in a “digestion” phase, as Intel Corp. reported.

AMD AMD, +3.20% is scheduled to report its first-quarter earnings on Tuesday after the close of markets. When Intel INTC,-0.81% reported results last week, the market-share leader noted that the market was just bottoming from a “digestion phase” as its data-center sales dropped 20% year-over-year.

SpaceX performed the first static fire test on Starship SN15 today (April 26), prepping the vehicle for a high-altitude test flight in the near future.

Tesla beat expectations on revenue and earnings in Q1, but the stock dropped slightly after hours.

An international research team led by Michigan State University has helped create cosmic conditions at RIKEN’s heavy-ion accelerator in Japan.

Imagine taking all of the water in Lake Michigan — more than a quadrillion gallons — and squeezing it into a 4-gallon bucket, the kind you’d find at a hardware store.

A quick review of the numbers suggests that this should be impossible: that’s too much stuff and not enough space. But this outlandish density is a defining feature of celestial objects known as neutron stars. These stars are only about 15 miles across, yet they hold more mass than our sun thanks to some extreme physics.

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