OpenAI’s New Text Generator Writes Even More Like a Human
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Meteorites From Mars Contain Clues About the Red Planet’s Geology
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Amazingly Detailed Map Reveals How the Brain Changes With Aging
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China Takes Another Step Towards Uncrackable Quantum Communication
Uncrackable quantum communication is a step closer after Chinese researchers demonstrated a practical way to share security keys over 1,120 kilometers using entangled photons...
How to Navigate the Coronavirus Crisis With Innovation at Warp Speed
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Animals That Can Do Math Understand More Language Than We Think
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 13)
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MIT Wants to Put AI in Your Pocket With Confetti-Sized Brain Chip
The human brain operates on roughly 20 watts of power (a third of a 60-watt light bulb) in a space the size of, well,...
How to Battle an Epidemic? Digitize Its DNA and Share It...
A nightmarish scene was burnt into my memory nearly two decades ago: Changainjie, Beijing’s normally chaotic “fifth avenue,” desolate without a sign of life....
New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars
Electric cars had their biggest year ever in 2019. As of the end of the year, 2.5 percent of the world’s total cars were...
Evolution: Why It Seems to Have a Direction and What to Expect Next
The diversity and complexity of life on Earth is astonishing: 8 million or more living species—from algae to elephants—all evolved from a simple, single-celled...
Scientists 3D Printed Ears Inside Living Mice Using Light
Tissue engineering just got wilder and weirder.Using nothing but light and bioink, scientists were able to directly print a human ear-like structure under the...
Computing Power Can Keep Growing as Moore’s Law Winds Down. Here’s How
Moore's Law is faltering, but that doesn't mean the end of progress in processing power. Rather than relying on semiconductor physics and silicon-fabrication technology,...
Will Facial Recognition and Digital Surveillance End Anonymous Protest?
It’s been almost two weeks since people first took to the streets in Minneapolis to protest police brutality following the deaths of George Floyd...
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