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Scientists like to measure things, but they’ve had a heck of a time doing that with sharpness. And even if no one agrees on exactly how to measure it, our search for better tools has recently led to some of the sharpest objects we’ve ever created.

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Far from the raging zombie fungi you see on TV, this innovative architecture collaborative is harnessing the power of mycelium to combat a housing scarcity.

Do multiverses exist? Is our universe one of many? The multiverse is a key plot device in the hit movie Everything Everywhere All At Once.

But does the multiverse have any basis in science?

Oscars 2023: Cosmologists are trying to figure out if there’s a group of multiple universes running parallel to each other—as seen in the hit movie “Everything Everywhere All At Once”—and whether they might be habitable.

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A post-apocalyptic exhibit features an AI that expresses remorse for being the reason for the near-extinction of humanity.

The beating heart of tech-revolution, a museum in San Francisco, has visualized a memorial to the extinction of the human race, considering the fast and significant advances coming in artificial intelligence.

The pieces in the temporary exhibition combine the frightening with the humorous.

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The breakthrough experiment could lead to low-energy, wave-based computers and new applications for wireless communications.

Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) performed a breakthrough experiment in which they observed time reflections of electromagnetic signals in a tailored metamaterial.

Time reflection versus spatial reflection.

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It could be a solid step against inaccurate, racist, and sexist responses from the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.

Meta hopes to assist AI researchers in making their tools and procedures more universally inclusive, with the launch of Casual Conversations v2, according to a statement from the firm on March 9.

The vast new dataset, which includes face-to-face video clips from a broad spectrum of human participants across varied geographic, cultural, racial, and physical demographics, serves as an upgrade to its 2021 AI audio-visual training dataset.

It wouldn’t be completely out of character for Joe Rogan, the comedian turned podcaster, to endorse a “libido-boosting” coffee brand for men.

But when a video circulating on TikTok recently showed Mr. Rogan and his guest, Andrew Huberman, hawking the coffee, some eagle-eyed viewers were shocked — including Dr. Huberman.

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The firm faced financial collapse during the pandemic but is now serving customers in 15 countries.

U.K.-based OneWeb is one launch away from having enough satellites in orbit to cover the entire expanse of the Earth. Once ready, Elon Musk’s Starlink won’t be the only company offering such as service, the BBC

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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 examples of their technological prowess.

These successes could be taken to indicate that computation has no limits. To see if that’s the case, it’s important to understand what makes a computer powerful.

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