Itâs difficult for Gary Souza to return to your garden variety bottlerockets and…
Category: 3. Tech
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You Can Now Rent a Flesh Computer Grown in a British Lab : ScienceAlert
The world’s first commercial hybrid of silicon circuitry and human brain cells will soon be available for rent. Marketed for its vast potential in medical research, the biological machine, grown inside a British laboratory, builds on the
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The Download: AI agents hype, and Google’s electricity plans
âYoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs.
At Googleâs I/O 2025 event in May, the company showed off a digital assistant that didnât just answer questions; it helped work on a bicycle repair by…
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Googleâs electricity demand is skyrocketing
Letâs start with fusion: Googleâs deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems is intended to provide the tech giant with 200 megawatts of power. This will come from Commonwealthâs first commercial plant, a facility planned for Virginia that the…
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Donât let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality
Letâs start with the term âagentâ itself. Right now, itâs being slapped on everything from simple scripts to sophisticated AI workflows. Thereâs no shared definition, which leaves plenty of room for companies to market basic automation…
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Astronomers detect first known âdeath wishâ planet
The outlook isnât great for the exoplanet HIP 67522 b. Over the next 100…
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First complete ancient Egyptian DNA genome reveals his occupation
In 1985, geneticists achieved a major archeological breakthrough after they…
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The Download: How AI could improve the safety of construction sites, and our Roundtables conversation with Karen Hao
More than 1,000 construction workers die on the job each year in the US, making it the most dangerous industry for fatal slips, trips, and falls.
A new AI tool called Safety AI could help to change that. It analyzes the progress made on a…
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How generative AI could help make construction sites safer
Answers to multiple questions (Does the person on the ladder have three points of contact? Are they using the ladder as stilts to move around?) are combined to determine whether the ladder in the picture is being used safely. âOur system has…
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Oxfordâs One-in-6.7-Million Qubit Leap Could Redefine Quantum Computing
Oxford scientists have set a world record for quantum precision, achieving just one error in 6.7 million operations using microwave-controlled ions. This advancement could drastically shrink the size and cost of future quantum computers….
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