Research into AI agents has been criticized for anthropomorphizing them, and this research setup did a lot to nudge the agents toward behaving like humans. Although Eko was not explicitly instructed to... Read more »
Hilary Shook, the coordinator of the consortium, stepped off the trail with her thaw probe, a T-shaped pointed metal rod used to detect the upper boundary of the permafrost, the ancient layer... Read more »
Narrowing the memory density gap, meanwhile, would mean building devices that use all three dimensions at molecular scale. The most concrete example is DNA, which stores information at the scale of its... Read more »
9 The world’s official timekeepers have agreed to ditch the leap second It’s a move that ought to cut the risk of time-based computer glitches. (The Guardian) 10 Tesla has finally unveiled... Read more »
There’s certainly a market for pet preservation. And a growing number of biotech companies have their sights set on pet longevity. Loyal, a company that is currently working on three potential longevity... Read more »
Much later, some fancy expert summed up: “Turns out the smallest unit of consciousness is a vote.” Take Sandi, the librarian at the Nine Corners branch in Mainspring. She noticed things all... Read more »
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects more than 5 million people around the world. And until now, no treatment could restore their vision. The Prima system, which was approved in Europe in July... Read more »
Some proponents of bans have called for an increased focus on enforcement that blocks these workarounds. But circumvention is a signal, not a nuisance or something to be simply deterred. The fact... Read more »
The kidneys, which are similar in size to human ones, were left in a glass-like state, in one case for over a year. Once they had been rewarmed, tested in machines, and... Read more »
Pushing existing reactors to produce more could help provide more clean power for data centers, quickly. But just how much additional power can we count on? Upgrading equipment at existing nuclear power... Read more »