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Where OpenAI goes from here is anyone's guess
OpenAI's fate took a a twist nobody could have imagined last week, and all we can do is watch to see what the final outcome will be.
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Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated
Retool, a development platform for business software, recently published the results of its State of AI survey. Over 1,500 people took part, all from the tech industry:...
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Clean energy is officially “unstoppable” now
The International Energy Agency has a new forecast for 2030.
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Google’s AI Is Making Traffic Lights More Efficient and Less Annoying
Google is analyzing data from its Maps app to suggest how cities can adjust traffic light timing to cut wait times and emissions. The company says it’s already cutting stops for millions of drivers.
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Two-dimensional compounds can capture carbon from the air
Some of the thinnest materials known to mankind can be engineered to capture carbon dioxide from the air.
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Scientists get closer to solving mystery of antimatter
The elusive substance holds the key to discovering how the Universe was formed.
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FedEx for your cells: this biological delivery service could treat disease
Researchers want to know why cells produce tiny packages called vesicles — and whether these bundles could be used for therapy.
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California takes first step in acquiring trains for High-Speed Rail
The California High-Speed Rail took another important step toward becoming reality Thursday after the governing body’s board of directors began the process of obtaining possible vendors for t…
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The renewable energy revolution is happening faster than you think
Both China and the US, the world's top carbon emitters, are racing ahead with solar panels and wind turbines. It is even looking like we may soon see the beginning of the end for fossil fuels
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If interest in meatless burgers is waning, how can plant-based eating be sustained? | CBC Radio
Despite signs the meatless burger industry is losing steam, writers, chefs and industry experts say there is hope consumers will continue exploring more plant-based options. Writer and cook Alicia Kennedy says meatless burgers were only ever a distraction.
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Why lasers could help make the electric grid greener
Thousands of renewable projects are waiting to connect to the grid, but there aren't enough transmission lines. Some tech companies have faster and cheaper solutions.
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How electric cars became a battleground in the culture wars
EVs have become weaponised amid fears over cost of shift to battery power and job losses at carmakers
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Waymo is scaling back its self-driving truck ambitions
Is it harder to make self-driving trucks than robotaxis?
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Movie extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans
Five background actors told NPR they had to undergo face and body digital scans while on TV and movie sets. The use of digital replicas is a sticking point in the ongoing strikes in Hollywood.
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Futuristic concrete could transform roads and homes into giant batteries
Low-cost cement could be used on roadways to provide contactless recharging for electric cars as they travel
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Intel CEO: “We’re going to build AI into every platform we build”
The cloud is too slow, says Gelsinger.
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The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion
"NASA is looking to go to Mars with this system."
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Seven major automakers are teaming up on a North American EV charging network
Will this be the next big charging network to match Tesla’s?
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Fleet of robots could build human colony on the Moon and ‘talk to each other’
The latest advances in human advances to move into space has come from scientists who have developed a team of whizzy three-legged robots that might be able to work together as ‘teammates’
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World's biggest radio telescope could tease out secrets of dark matter, universe's 1st galaxies
Studying the hydrogen fingerprint from just after the Big Bang could allow researchers to kill 'two birds with one stone!'