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Study: Robotic automation, AI will speed up scientific progress in science laboratories. (techxplore.com)

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UN Emissions Gap Report 2024 - Chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C is 'virtually zero' (www.unep.org)

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FAA finalizes rules that will apply to air taxis • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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Why Meta Is Filling Your Facebook and Instagram Feeds With Bots: For social media companies, slop isn't a problem — they see it as the future. (nymag.com)

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Increased global integration in the brain after psilocybin therapy for depression - Nature Medicine (www.nature.com)

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Apple scraps car project, but tech lives on in BYD's EV success (interestingengineering.com)

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Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Anthropic says latest AI model can control users’ computers (archive.ph)

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Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning: Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI models. (www.theguardian.com)

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Scammers swindle elderly California man out of $25K by using AI voice technology to claim his son was in ‘horrible accident,’ needed money for bail: ‘Absolutely his voice’ (nypost.com)

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AI to help doctors detect broken bones on X-rays (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A good summary of why Google may soon be in rapid decline. (www.wheresyoured.at)

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Al Will Take Over Human Systems From Within - It’s not a tool, but an alien agent, says Yuval Noah Harari in an interview. (www.noemamag.com)

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Researchers modelling AI development say the conditions for it to happen safely are not what is happening now. (arxiv.org)

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In another indication of renewable energy's rapid technological advancement, a Chinese company has made a 26 MW wind turbine, and another is testing one of 35 MW. (www.rechargenews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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Here's the 26MW one

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Catalyzed fusion system 'operates indefinitely without external power' (interestingengineering.com)

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Australian researchers have developed a synthetic version of a spider venom molecule for use in a groundbreaking new drug aimed at reversing heart attack damage. (www.uq.edu.au)

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A California startup claims it's brain monitoring device allows people to exchange information while asleep and dreaming. (www.businesswire.com)

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OpenAI is boasting that they are about to make a lot of the legal profession permanently unemployed. (wallstreetpit.com)

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A new study shows that an AI tool can help people with different views find common ground by more effectively summarizing the collective opinion of the group than humans. (www.science.org)

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Dutch biologists find nanoplastics in the hearts of chicken embryos (statnano.com)

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Selective breeding enhances coral heat tolerance to marine heatwaves - should we breed new types of coral to survive climate change? (www.nature.com)

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6G phone networks could be 9000 times faster than 5G (www.newscientist.com)

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De-extinction company claims it has nearly complete thylacine genome (www.newscientist.com)

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Santa Clarita County in California is using AI to weed out racist covenants from its 24 million deed documents that date back to 1850. (hai.stanford.edu)

submitted 11 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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