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US Commerce Department undersecretary Laurie E. Locascio says America needs to invent new chip manufacturing techniques.

Everyone thinks they know but no one can agree. And that’s a problem.

In a new study, women who followed diets low in added sugar and high in nutrients had “younger-looking” cells.

Focus on good things: creative activities:

Neura’s 4NE-1 is a humanoid robot capable of carrying out multiple daily and industrial chores, according to the company.

Two major scientific publishers have recently sold access to research papers to train AIs at big tech firms.

A city in Southern California has become the first in the nation to replace its police patrol cars with electric vehicles, officials announced Monday, unveiling a fleet of 20 new Teslas.

South Pasadena on the edge of Los Angeles will replace its gas-guzzling police cruisers with the Teslas to help protect public health and fight climate change through reducing emissions. The Teslas will use new electric vehicle chargers installed at City Hall, officials said.

Self-driving cars occasionally crash because their visual systems can’t always process static or slow-moving objects in 3D space. In that regard, they’re like the monocular vision of many insects, whose compound eyes provide great motion-tracking and a wide field of view but poor depth perception.

Except for the praying mantis.

A praying mantis’s field of view also overlaps between its left and right eyes, creating binocular vision with depth perception in 3D space.

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt weighs in on where AI is headed, when to “pull the plug” and how to cope with China.