Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. More children have been diagnosed with autism than at any time since monitoring began […]
Get ’em! Subscription Breakers Tired of those pesky subscriptions that sound like a great deal, but make it incredible difficulty to cancel? That practice may become punishable by law, thanks […]
A decade ago, I joined a small mélange of folks trying to revive interest in Adam Smith the enlightenment thinker and fierce opponent of feudalism and aristocratism, whose best-known work […]
Geordi Rose is the CEO of Sanctuary AI, which has about $100 million in funding. They have deployed humanoid robots into actual commercial retail stores under a test program. During […]
If computer chips make the modern world go around, then Nvidia and TSMC are flywheels keeping it spinning. It’s worth paying attention when the former says they’ve made a chipmaking […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Nursing homes that conducted staff surveillance testing more regularly experienced significantly lower rates of […]
Image by Getty / Futurism In more terrible news from the tiny-bits-of-plastic front: a recent study from researchers at the Netherlands’ Leiden University found that nanoplastics — particles even smaller […]
In 2015, I was speaking at a Quebec Transportation Authority event in Montreal on the future of transportation. The attendees included transportation experts from around the world, including Colombia Transportation […]
A PLUS-SIZED POSTING FOR THOSE OF YOU STUCK WITH METERS OF ARCTIC SNOW OUTSIDE YOUR FRONT DOOR… I try to vary my postings among several main topic areas. Yeah, a […]
Between 1985 to 2015, U.S. uranium enrichment capacity fell to zero from 27.3 million Separative Work Units a year, while Russia’s Tenex became a world leader, increasing production to 26.6 […]
OpenAI Connects ChatGPT to the InternetKyle Wiggers | TechCrunch“[This week, OpenAI] launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Chemical and isotopic analysis of copper artifacts from southern Africa reveals new cultural connections […]
“It’s just the most generic explanation.” Move Over, Oumuamua Remember Oumuamua, that weird and allegedly alien object that flew past Earth back in 2017, when we were all so young […]
It’s rare that the opportunity to preserve resources, recycle resources, enhance quality, and improve cost efficiency all come together to deliver an important, improved product that the world uses in […]
War tends to shake or shatter assumptions, each day making the previous day’s speculations obsolete. Still, I will finish this quick post with some ruminations about what may come next. […]
UK Space Agency announced £2.9 million of new funding for a nuclear micro-reactor by Rolls-Royce. They want nuclear power to support a future Moon base for astronauts. This follows a […]
There’s a common perception that artificial intelligence (AI) will help streamline our work. There are even fears that it could wipe out the need for some jobs altogether. But in […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Mismatches in conceptual definitions of basic things—even animals—help explain why people end up talking […]
Ouch. Sensorius Elon Musk has been promising that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving would be coming “next year” for the better part of the past decade — but as it turns out, […]
The Psychological Effect I interact with many people who are in a four-day work environment. They seem more focused and deliberate with their work. They’re less likely to waste time […]
Yes, this often means that progress is slowed, until this kind of negotiated consensus can take form incrementally. Take a famous example – LBJ’s Civil Rights Bill of 1964. (Watch […]
If your imagination could run wild, how would you envision the future of hospitals? Hi-tech big machines, physicians analysing data obtained from patients’ devices, LED screens greeting visitors by their […]
Stephen McAleese, at Less Wrong, used scaling rules and formulas to try to predict the performance of GPT-4. He underpredicted the capabilities of GPT-4. However, he was not widely wrong. […]
The hype around artificial intelligence has been building for years, and you could say it reached a crescendo with OpenAI’s recent release of ChatGPT (and now GPT-4). It only took […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Researchers have demonstrated a caterpillar-like soft robot that can move forward, backward, and dip […]
This is the last thing LA needs after a month of rain storms. Do The Cyclone After weeks of nearly-non-stop rain, what some are saying may have been a freaking […]
Fifty years ago, very few people talked about globalization. Cross-border travel was both difficult and expensive. Communication requires human translators. Transporting goods and services across borders and oceans was complex […]
Looking back at 2022: a roundup of scientific achievements… from asteroids to AI and (possibly) fusion. Science journal calls the initial data and images from the James Webb Space Telescope the […]
London, United Kingdom, 22nd March, 2023, Chainwire Battle of Olympus, an arcade street fighting game, is set to launch the first phase of its presale for its in-game currency $GODLY […]
The race to solve every protein structure just welcomed another tech giant: Meta AI. A research offshoot of Meta, known for Facebook and Instagram, the team came onto the protein […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. For skiers and snowboarders, exposure to harmful chemicals in wax and cleaning solvents might […]
The White House is apparently irked with SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk after a selfie of the entrepreneur with a Russian propagandist ended up online. As Bloomberg reports, there doesn’t […]
Top 10 Futurist Speaker Columns for 2022 It seemed like a good idea to close out 2022 with an overview of the ten most impactful columns of the year. The […]
Earlier I referred you to when Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, while campaigning for Herschel Walker in Georgia, made this so explicitly by repeatedly taunting kale-eating “high-IQ stupid people.” The same folks who are dissed as […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on course to usher the real era of The Art of Medicine. By automating administrative tasks and aiding in decision-making, these smart algorithms promise to free […]
A senior developer tested GPT4 for programming. GPT4 gave the Terraform script code for a single instance of the Fargate API. GPT4 knows that the code will not scale to […]
Solar power is going to play a major role in combating climate change, but it requires huge amounts of land. Floating solar panels on top of reservoirs could provide up […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A new substance has proven useful for treating staphylococcus infections in people with skin […]
AI images are about to be a real handful, now more than ever. Big Upgrade Midjourney recently announced its latest iteration, V5, and it’s set a new bar in achieving […]
Adding AR to AI The next generation of AR smart glasses will not be able to create fully immersive virtual worlds like virtual reality (VR) headsets can. Instead, they will […]
Modeling this planet. Having cut my teeth long ago on the Whole Earth Catalogue, and later having written a novel called Earth, I’m a bit of a sucker for macro […]
The most useful skin-checking applications allow users to take pictures of their suspicious skin lesions, upload these pictures to a server, the images are first evaluated by an AI algorithm […]
Shares of Credit Suisse jumped Thursday after saying it would borrow up to $54 billion from Switzerland’s central bank. The European Central Bank hiked official interest rates on Thursday by […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. The “Flash Joule” technique could be a profitable way to turn plastic waste into […]
Image by Getty / Futurism Just when you thought we didn’t have enough deadly diseases or fungi to worry about, another one rears its head: Babesiosis, a severe and sometimes […]
5. Why does time exist? The question of why time exists is a topic of debate among philosophers, scientists, and cosmologists. There is no one definitive answer to this question, […]
Heading off to the annual orientation meeting of NASA’s Innovative & Advanced Concepts program – (NIAC) in my last year on the external advisory council… but meanwhile… The latter half […]
Microsoft Satya Nadella and Jared Spataro focused on how AI will power a whole new way of working for everyone. Word, Excel, Powerpoint and other microsoft software will create first […]
You Can Now Run a GPT-3-Level AI Model on Your Laptop, Phone, and Raspberry PiBenj Edwards | Ars Technica“On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Wild populations of the common morning glory in the southeastern United States increased the […]
Image by NurPhoto via Getty / Futurism Elon Musk just offered a take nobody asked for, on the bad-faith “debate” regarding transgender children and access to medical care — though […]
AI, BMI, and Chatbots While AI and BMIs are both important technologies in the field of information access, they each have their own unique strengths and weaknesses. A conversational interface, […]
I’m alternating between postings about science and – well – the crisis of saving civilization from a deeply dangerous/feral world oligarchy, bent on restoring 6000 years of insanely stupid feudalism. […]
Home » World » US Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Grew $300 Billion in the Last Week
The US Federal Reserve has increased its balance sheet by about $300 billion […]
Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it does today. Understanding the history of water in the universe is critical to understanding how planets like Earth come to […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A majority of people radicalized to hold extremist views needed mental health services that […]
Robots in the workplace? Well they better be goddamn adorable. Robo Life Coach How could your employer make your workday less miserable? More breaks, a more reasonable workload, or just […]
For many supporters of cryptocurrencies, the key appeal lies in their ability to provide a currency and financial system that is open, borderless, decentralized, neutral, anonymous, immutable, and censorship-resistant. Openness […]
Okay, here’s another ‘shut up and play your guitar’ posting. I originally submitted two scripts to the 2016 One Page Screenplay competition in LA. The first one — “Bargain” won […]
Home » antiaging » France PM Macron Trying To Force Pension Age Increase of 2 Years
French leadership is trying to raise the pension age from 62 to 64. […]
Of all the advanced technologies currently under development, one of the most fascinating and frightening is brain-computer interfaces. They’re fascinating because we still have so much to learn about the […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Every day people are exposed to Bisphenol S (BPS) a hormone disrupting chemical, in […]
It’s the first time US and Russian military aircraft have come into contact since the invasion of Ukraine began. Fuel For Thought The US military has released a dramatic video […]
In Search of a Morality Engine: Can AI and Humanity Truly Coexist? Is it possible to build a “morality engine” for AI without compromising the integrity of the artificial intelligence? […]
Okay… let’s have a “shut up and just play your guitar” moment… AFICIONADO By David Brin A stand-alone chapter from EXISTENCE (2012) Cameras stared across forbidden desert, monitoring disputed territory in […]
We’re happy and proud to announce the launch of another major project we have been working on this past year: the Introduction To Artificial Intelligence In Medicine And Healthcare online […]
Home » News » Switzerland Backing Credit Suisse Liquidity
Credit Suisse is about four times bigger than Silicon Valley Bank by some financial measures. It is one of the […]
From 1850 to 2019, human activity released 2.4 trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. In 2022 alone, we released 37 billion more tons. While renewable energy is making a […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A common and widely used chemical may be fueling the rise of Parkinson’s disease, […]
What metaverse? Hush Hush Meta-formerly-Facebook just laid off another 10,000 workers. But as Insider points out, CEO Mark Zuckerburg’s latest announcement-slash-apology letter to his loyal Metamates, posted to Facebook on […]
Okay, things are really speeding up re Artificial Intelligence, lately… so much for the “third AI desert” some were talking about in ancient days, a year ago! It’s a lot […]
I have tested over a hundred digital health devices and gadgets over the past 8 years. And by far the most problematic of all these has been the FreeStyle Libre […]
The OpenAI GPT4 can score higher than 90% of law students writing the bar exam while the old version (GPT3) was in the bottom 10% of human bar exam test […]
Breakthroughs don’t often happen in neuroscience, but we just had one. In a tour-de-force, an international team released the full brain connectivity map of the young fruit fly, described in […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. On farms where chickens are kept outside, high winds may increase the prevalence of […]
Consider a new digital privacy fear unlocked. As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes, which claims to create biometric human “faceprints,” has been using stolen photos of […]
They call fellows like Mark Milley “procurement politicians,” as if the now-visible results don’t make that a badge of honor… while the same idiots ignore Milley’s other badges, visible in […]
Text-to-image AI generators like Midjourney, DALL-E or Stable Diffusion became popular and widely used in the past year. Although these algorithms have their limitations, feeding them with the right prompts […]
Ark Invest forecasts a massive drop in the cost to train generative AI models and a massive increase in the size of AI models. AI models will increase to hundreds […]
Many stories about the future are formed by imagining worst-case scenarios, then extracting lessons from them about what we should try to avoid. Much of the best science fiction takes […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. In a historic achievement, researchers have created a superconducting material at both a temperature […]
And we’re barely scratching the surface. Galactic Triumph The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, conducted using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, was once considered the zenith of astronomical surveys, capturing light from […]
Let’s start with a pair of eerily almost-exact predictions. First here’s a prophetic image from my graphic novel, Tinkerers. (published circa 2008.) The slogan was: “New for 2024: The Apple/Honda iCar!” Check the […]
Transparent communication, clinically-validated technologies, and addressing real-life clinical needs might sound like no-brainer components to a digital health company since they are working in the healthcare sector. It is also […]
Taipei, Taiwan, 13th March, 2023, Chainwire Bloxmith, the player-first Web3 gaming studio, today announced that the open beta for Raiders Rumble, its unique 1v1 squad battler game for mobile powered […]
Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose diseases, to name just a few […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. The most advanced brain map to date, that of an insect—brings scientists closer to […]
It only makes sense. 32 Hours California Congressman Mark Takano has reintroduced a bill that would make four-day workweeks a federal mandate, something that would bring about “a significant change which will […]
Been busy shoveling mud here in SoCal… The last atmospheric river storm left a trail of damage across California, with catastrophic flooding, landslides, sinkholes, power outages and evacuations across the state. And […]
Pictures, text prompts, documents and health metrics are just a few examples of data we’re giving away to different AI applications and thus, to different companies/organizations. While it’s always good […]
Home » Technology » Reports that FDIC is on Site at First Republic Bank
First Republic Bank (FRC.N) and Western Alliance (WAL.N) said on Friday their liquidity and deposits […]
D-ID’s New Web App Gives a Face and Voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPTAisha Malik | TechCrunch“When you open up the web app on a desktop or mobile device, you’ll be greeted […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Expanding Medicaid-benefit eligibility to cover all people with income up to 138% of the […]
Over 171 trillion plastic particles are already poisoning our planet’s oceans. Amassing Microplastics After trawling through some forty years’ worth of data, scientists have identified a foreboding “plastic smog” pervading […]
In Asimov’s case, the reflex was not to create a quasi-religious scripture, but rather to envision the crude Marxian methods being developed into a vastly intricate and fact-grounded science. A science called […]
Lately, there has been a tendency in the tech world to adopt “new” realities in their midst. Meta has a branch dedicated to developing virtual reality (VR) hardware and software; […]
Home » Technology » Calcanis About SVB Crisis
EMERGENCY POD: Jason Calcanis on SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) implosion and what impacted founders should do. FDIC has taken control of […]
Despite impressive progress, today’s AI models are very inefficient learners, taking huge amounts of time and data to solve problems humans pick up almost instantaneously. A new approach could drastically […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A new framework highlights how honest behavior encompasses much more than the commonly held […]
Eat your heart out, Antman. Optical Trapping The atomic realm may now have a new favorite pastime. Through a technique known as optical trapping, scientists have demonstrated that they can […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. More children have been diagnosed with autism than at any time since monitoring began […]
Get ’em! Subscription Breakers Tired of those pesky subscriptions that sound like a great deal, but make it incredible difficulty to cancel? That practice may become punishable by law, thanks […]
A decade ago, I joined a small mélange of folks trying to revive interest in Adam Smith the enlightenment thinker and fierce opponent of feudalism and aristocratism, whose best-known work […]
If computer chips make the modern world go around, then Nvidia and TSMC are flywheels keeping it spinning. It’s worth paying attention when the former says they’ve made a chipmaking […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Nursing homes that conducted staff surveillance testing more regularly experienced significantly lower rates of […]
Image by Getty / Futurism In more terrible news from the tiny-bits-of-plastic front: a recent study from researchers at the Netherlands’ Leiden University found that nanoplastics — particles even smaller […]
In 2015, I was speaking at a Quebec Transportation Authority event in Montreal on the future of transportation. The attendees included transportation experts from around the world, including Colombia Transportation […]
A PLUS-SIZED POSTING FOR THOSE OF YOU STUCK WITH METERS OF ARCTIC SNOW OUTSIDE YOUR FRONT DOOR… I try to vary my postings among several main topic areas. Yeah, a […]
OpenAI Connects ChatGPT to the InternetKyle Wiggers | TechCrunch“[This week, OpenAI] launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Chemical and isotopic analysis of copper artifacts from southern Africa reveals new cultural connections […]
“It’s just the most generic explanation.” Move Over, Oumuamua Remember Oumuamua, that weird and allegedly alien object that flew past Earth back in 2017, when we were all so young […]
It’s rare that the opportunity to preserve resources, recycle resources, enhance quality, and improve cost efficiency all come together to deliver an important, improved product that the world uses in […]
War tends to shake or shatter assumptions, each day making the previous day’s speculations obsolete. Still, I will finish this quick post with some ruminations about what may come next. […]
There’s a common perception that artificial intelligence (AI) will help streamline our work. There are even fears that it could wipe out the need for some jobs altogether. But in […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Mismatches in conceptual definitions of basic things—even animals—help explain why people end up talking […]
Ouch. Sensorius Elon Musk has been promising that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving would be coming “next year” for the better part of the past decade — but as it turns out, […]
The Psychological Effect I interact with many people who are in a four-day work environment. They seem more focused and deliberate with their work. They’re less likely to waste time […]
Yes, this often means that progress is slowed, until this kind of negotiated consensus can take form incrementally. Take a famous example – LBJ’s Civil Rights Bill of 1964. (Watch […]
If your imagination could run wild, how would you envision the future of hospitals? Hi-tech big machines, physicians analysing data obtained from patients’ devices, LED screens greeting visitors by their […]
The hype around artificial intelligence has been building for years, and you could say it reached a crescendo with OpenAI’s recent release of ChatGPT (and now GPT-4). It only took […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Researchers have demonstrated a caterpillar-like soft robot that can move forward, backward, and dip […]
This is the last thing LA needs after a month of rain storms. Do The Cyclone After weeks of nearly-non-stop rain, what some are saying may have been a freaking […]
Fifty years ago, very few people talked about globalization. Cross-border travel was both difficult and expensive. Communication requires human translators. Transporting goods and services across borders and oceans was complex […]
Looking back at 2022: a roundup of scientific achievements… from asteroids to AI and (possibly) fusion. Science journal calls the initial data and images from the James Webb Space Telescope the […]
The race to solve every protein structure just welcomed another tech giant: Meta AI. A research offshoot of Meta, known for Facebook and Instagram, the team came onto the protein […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. For skiers and snowboarders, exposure to harmful chemicals in wax and cleaning solvents might […]
The White House is apparently irked with SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk after a selfie of the entrepreneur with a Russian propagandist ended up online. As Bloomberg reports, there doesn’t […]
Top 10 Futurist Speaker Columns for 2022 It seemed like a good idea to close out 2022 with an overview of the ten most impactful columns of the year. The […]
Earlier I referred you to when Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, while campaigning for Herschel Walker in Georgia, made this so explicitly by repeatedly taunting kale-eating “high-IQ stupid people.” The same folks who are dissed as […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on course to usher the real era of The Art of Medicine. By automating administrative tasks and aiding in decision-making, these smart algorithms promise to free […]
Solar power is going to play a major role in combating climate change, but it requires huge amounts of land. Floating solar panels on top of reservoirs could provide up […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A new substance has proven useful for treating staphylococcus infections in people with skin […]
AI images are about to be a real handful, now more than ever. Big Upgrade Midjourney recently announced its latest iteration, V5, and it’s set a new bar in achieving […]
Modeling this planet. Having cut my teeth long ago on the Whole Earth Catalogue, and later having written a novel called Earth, I’m a bit of a sucker for macro […]
The most useful skin-checking applications allow users to take pictures of their suspicious skin lesions, upload these pictures to a server, the images are first evaluated by an AI algorithm […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. The “Flash Joule” technique could be a profitable way to turn plastic waste into […]
Image by Getty / Futurism Just when you thought we didn’t have enough deadly diseases or fungi to worry about, another one rears its head: Babesiosis, a severe and sometimes […]
5. Why does time exist? The question of why time exists is a topic of debate among philosophers, scientists, and cosmologists. There is no one definitive answer to this question, […]
Heading off to the annual orientation meeting of NASA’s Innovative & Advanced Concepts program – (NIAC) in my last year on the external advisory council… but meanwhile… The latter half […]
You Can Now Run a GPT-3-Level AI Model on Your Laptop, Phone, and Raspberry PiBenj Edwards | Ars Technica“On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Wild populations of the common morning glory in the southeastern United States increased the […]
Image by NurPhoto via Getty / Futurism Elon Musk just offered a take nobody asked for, on the bad-faith “debate” regarding transgender children and access to medical care — though […]
AI, BMI, and Chatbots While AI and BMIs are both important technologies in the field of information access, they each have their own unique strengths and weaknesses. A conversational interface, […]
I’m alternating between postings about science and – well – the crisis of saving civilization from a deeply dangerous/feral world oligarchy, bent on restoring 6000 years of insanely stupid feudalism. […]
Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it does today. Understanding the history of water in the universe is critical to understanding how planets like Earth come to […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A majority of people radicalized to hold extremist views needed mental health services that […]
Robots in the workplace? Well they better be goddamn adorable. Robo Life Coach How could your employer make your workday less miserable? More breaks, a more reasonable workload, or just […]
For many supporters of cryptocurrencies, the key appeal lies in their ability to provide a currency and financial system that is open, borderless, decentralized, neutral, anonymous, immutable, and censorship-resistant. Openness […]
Okay, here’s another ‘shut up and play your guitar’ posting. I originally submitted two scripts to the 2016 One Page Screenplay competition in LA. The first one — “Bargain” won […]
Of all the advanced technologies currently under development, one of the most fascinating and frightening is brain-computer interfaces. They’re fascinating because we still have so much to learn about the […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Every day people are exposed to Bisphenol S (BPS) a hormone disrupting chemical, in […]
It’s the first time US and Russian military aircraft have come into contact since the invasion of Ukraine began. Fuel For Thought The US military has released a dramatic video […]
In Search of a Morality Engine: Can AI and Humanity Truly Coexist? Is it possible to build a “morality engine” for AI without compromising the integrity of the artificial intelligence? […]
Okay… let’s have a “shut up and just play your guitar” moment… AFICIONADO By David Brin A stand-alone chapter from EXISTENCE (2012) Cameras stared across forbidden desert, monitoring disputed territory in […]
We’re happy and proud to announce the launch of another major project we have been working on this past year: the Introduction To Artificial Intelligence In Medicine And Healthcare online […]
From 1850 to 2019, human activity released 2.4 trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. In 2022 alone, we released 37 billion more tons. While renewable energy is making a […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A common and widely used chemical may be fueling the rise of Parkinson’s disease, […]
What metaverse? Hush Hush Meta-formerly-Facebook just laid off another 10,000 workers. But as Insider points out, CEO Mark Zuckerburg’s latest announcement-slash-apology letter to his loyal Metamates, posted to Facebook on […]
Okay, things are really speeding up re Artificial Intelligence, lately… so much for the “third AI desert” some were talking about in ancient days, a year ago! It’s a lot […]
I have tested over a hundred digital health devices and gadgets over the past 8 years. And by far the most problematic of all these has been the FreeStyle Libre […]
Breakthroughs don’t often happen in neuroscience, but we just had one. In a tour-de-force, an international team released the full brain connectivity map of the young fruit fly, described in […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. On farms where chickens are kept outside, high winds may increase the prevalence of […]
Consider a new digital privacy fear unlocked. As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes, which claims to create biometric human “faceprints,” has been using stolen photos of […]
They call fellows like Mark Milley “procurement politicians,” as if the now-visible results don’t make that a badge of honor… while the same idiots ignore Milley’s other badges, visible in […]
Text-to-image AI generators like Midjourney, DALL-E or Stable Diffusion became popular and widely used in the past year. Although these algorithms have their limitations, feeding them with the right prompts […]
Many stories about the future are formed by imagining worst-case scenarios, then extracting lessons from them about what we should try to avoid. Much of the best science fiction takes […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. In a historic achievement, researchers have created a superconducting material at both a temperature […]
And we’re barely scratching the surface. Galactic Triumph The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, conducted using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, was once considered the zenith of astronomical surveys, capturing light from […]
Let’s start with a pair of eerily almost-exact predictions. First here’s a prophetic image from my graphic novel, Tinkerers. (published circa 2008.) The slogan was: “New for 2024: The Apple/Honda iCar!” Check the […]
Transparent communication, clinically-validated technologies, and addressing real-life clinical needs might sound like no-brainer components to a digital health company since they are working in the healthcare sector. It is also […]
Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose diseases, to name just a few […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. The most advanced brain map to date, that of an insect—brings scientists closer to […]
It only makes sense. 32 Hours California Congressman Mark Takano has reintroduced a bill that would make four-day workweeks a federal mandate, something that would bring about “a significant change which will […]
Been busy shoveling mud here in SoCal… The last atmospheric river storm left a trail of damage across California, with catastrophic flooding, landslides, sinkholes, power outages and evacuations across the state. And […]
Pictures, text prompts, documents and health metrics are just a few examples of data we’re giving away to different AI applications and thus, to different companies/organizations. While it’s always good […]
D-ID’s New Web App Gives a Face and Voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPTAisha Malik | TechCrunch“When you open up the web app on a desktop or mobile device, you’ll be greeted […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Expanding Medicaid-benefit eligibility to cover all people with income up to 138% of the […]
Over 171 trillion plastic particles are already poisoning our planet’s oceans. Amassing Microplastics After trawling through some forty years’ worth of data, scientists have identified a foreboding “plastic smog” pervading […]
In Asimov’s case, the reflex was not to create a quasi-religious scripture, but rather to envision the crude Marxian methods being developed into a vastly intricate and fact-grounded science. A science called […]
Despite impressive progress, today’s AI models are very inefficient learners, taking huge amounts of time and data to solve problems humans pick up almost instantaneously. A new approach could drastically […]
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A new framework highlights how honest behavior encompasses much more than the commonly held […]
Eat your heart out, Antman. Optical Trapping The atomic realm may now have a new favorite pastime. Through a technique known as optical trapping, scientists have demonstrated that they can […]