Big Tech fuels 'growth' with crime. 70% of new Facebook and Instagram advertisers are scammers—Meta knows but ignores it to impress investors.
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While medical choices for one set of trans people go in another direction, in Montana the 'right to try' movement will legalize non-FDA approved drugs and treatments related to transhumanism and longevity.
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China is more popular than the US in most countries, including in Canada and most of Europe. Will this lead to permanent re-ordering of international relations?
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In a world first, Baidu's Apollo Go who already run robotaxis, say they will expand into self-driving rental cars later this year.
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CASIC is building a 60 km track to test its T-Flight maglev vacuum tube train at 1,000 km/hr, more than an airliner's cruising speed, and talking about testing at 3,860 km/hr (Mach 3.5).
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Will the Catholic Church soon support UBI? In his first meeting with the cardinals, Pope Leo XIV said the impact of AI and robotics on work will be a central focus of his papacy.
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Mark Zuckerberg's vision of the future: 80% of your friends will be AI, owned by Meta, and they'll always be selling you stuff.
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For the last 10 years, China's production of industrial robots has compounded at 20% annually. At this rate, they'll be making 1 million per year by 2029.
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With the expansion of its Zoox robotaxis, and 'fundamental leap forward' Vulcan warehouse robots, Amazon is preparing to automate away millions of human jobs.
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In a win for combatting microplastic pollution, new robots in Seattle can sort waste into recycling categories with 90% accuracy.
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What if future robots are mostly cheap, open-source, and owned by everybody? Researchers in California have developed a humanoid robot that is 3D printed and costs just $5,000.
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Is Open-Source vs. Proprietary AI the real AI race, not US vs. Chinese AI, and is Open-Source winning?
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Waymo's latest research shows its self-driving cars have 80-90% fewer accidents than human drivers, and in future could possibly save 34,000 U.S. lives annually if they replaced all human-driven cars.
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A Swedish company deploying underwater tidal kites in the Faroe Islands, says 500 of them would supply 100% of Alaska's electricity needs.
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Chinese company HuidaGene Therapeutics used CRISPR gene-editing (Cas13) to modify genes in the brain for the first time, treating a 9-year-old with MECP2 duplication syndrome. After 12 weeks, the child improved with no side effects.
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A Chinese firm has used robots to install a 350MW solar farm in Australia and says each robot does the work of '3 or 4' humans, but much quicker & it's looking to 100% automate solar farm setup.
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Carnegie Mellon researchers have used FRESH 3D bioprinting to 3D-print living tissue that has cured Type 1 diabetes in lab tests.
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General Motors joins almost a dozen car makers in China deploying humanoid robots and is using Kepler's K2 humanoid robots at its Shanghai factory.
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Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children: Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned.
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AI firm Anthropic has started a research program to look at AI 'welfare' - as it says AI can communicate, relate, plan, problem-solve, and pursue goals—along with many more characteristics we associate with people.
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French firm Robeauté, will start human trials on its grain-of-rice sized microbot that will move through brain tissue at 3 mm/min to perform micro-biosipies, more safely than a human brain surgeon.
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Researchers in England have fully grown an adult tooth in the lab, and are investigating ways these teeth could be used in dentistry.
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Bright Saver, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, aims to bring the European balcony solar trend to U.S. homes with low-cost, plug-in systems that require no interconnection and no permits in some jurisdictions.
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