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U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence data centres, the White House said.... Read more »

Elon Musk said a third person has received an implant from his brain-computer interface company Neuralink, one of many groups working to connect the nervous system to machines.... Read more »

Keep an eye on the sky Monday evening to see the wolf moon, the first full moon of the year. And some sky-gazers will be able to glimpse a cosmic magic trick when the moon appears to pass in front of Mars.... Read more »

Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its U.S.-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder.... Read more »

Blue Origin will try again to launch its massive new rocket as early as Tuesday after calling off the debut launch because of ice buildup in critical plumbing.... Read more »

Meta's decision to end its fact-checking program looks like the company is 'caving' to political pressures, said Meta's oversight board co-chair Michael McConnell.... Read more »

On Friday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on TikTok’s legal challenge to the law, which the company claims violates its First Amendment rights and those of its 170 million American users... Read more »

School boards across Canada are grappling with the fallout from a significant cyberattack on PowerSchool, a widely used administration software platform.... Read more »

A Manitoba researcher was part of a historic research team that uncovered the oldest ice core ever retrieved.... Read more »

The rumors were true, all of them (and then some): OpenAI today is releasing GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier model that the company says likely marks the onset of artificial generalized intelligence (AGI), its long sought goal of "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work." In... Read more »

A Chinese state-linked hacking group compromised executive laptops at an agricultural industry conference on Hainan Island this spring — not through phishing or a network breach, but by breaking into hotel rooms and booting the machines from a USB stick while the executives were at dinner. CrowdStrike, which tracks the... Read more »

Meta’s newest AI model Muse Spark 1.3, unveiled yesterday, is faster and more performant on third-party benchmarks than its predecessor — with a caveat. "Muse Spark 1.3 is rolling out today with frontier performance almost too cheap to meter," Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on X, calling it... Read more »

Microsoft AI on Thursday released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model the company says is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than anything OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs currently sells. Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio.That figure deserves a pause. When Microsoft AI shipped the first model in... Read more »

Presented by ContentfulMost marketing teams still measure visibility the same way they always have: rankings, click-through rates, and organic traffic. But buyers have moved on. Search tools and AI engines now synthesize answers directly on the screen, creating a world of zero-click searches where your website is entirely bypassed. The... Read more »

Google keeps cranking out Flash models: the company on Wednesday announced two versions of a new 3.8 Flash. The variants include a standard Flash, a “workhorse” model for agentic tasks, software development, and multi-step reasoning, and Flash Cyber optimized for vulnerability detection and mitigation.Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an X... Read more »

Xiaomi’s REDMI Note 17 lineup just landed last week, with four models: the Note 17, Note 17 5G, Note 17 Pro 5G, and the first-ever Note 17 Pro Max 5G.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: Xiaomi, smartphones, Batteries... Read more »

Tesla quietly rolled out its Cybercabs in Austin, Texas yesterday. That's the company finally making good on its plan bring these vehicles on to public roads about two years after they were first revealed.Continue ReadingCategory: Urban Transport, TransportTags: Robotaxi, Tesla Motors, Cabs, Ride-sharing... Read more »

In the 1960s Hanna Barbara animated series The Flintstones, prehistoric human beings lacked modern technology, so they used ancient animals (including dinosaurs, who for some reason in this universe lived at the same time people did) as household appliances and industrial machinery. And, for extra-cheap laffs, these animals routinely mugged... Read more »

The British Ministry of Defence is looking into a novel way to drop troops behind enemy lines, with a £6-million (US$8.1-million) study to evaluate the use of foot-launched powered paragliders as transports for reconnaissance and troop insertion.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, EngineeringTags: U.K. Ministry of Defence, Aircraft... Read more »

Nearly 15 years ago, scientists found that plants had a biological mechanism that controls their morphology – or, in simpler terms, their form – thought to have only been something seen in animals. Now, researchers from the same institution have uncovered how it works. It's basically a tree's version of... Read more »

Another year, another gray hair. Another wrinkle. Maybe another few inches on the ol’ spare tire.Continue ReadingCategory: Imaging & Diagnostics, Medical Innovations, Body and MindTags: Aging, Inflammation, Energy, Genetics, ovary, blood vessel... Read more »

It's possible that by 2035 there may be as many as 50 nuclear-powered cargo ships plying the seas. In anticipation of this, the Pink Corridor Project is evaluating how to set up safe and secure nuclear shipping lanes between the US and Britain.Continue ReadingCategory: Marine, TransportTags: Nuclear, Ships... Read more »

With promises of killing 99 percent of germs and leaving our bathroom sink smelling like a Nordic fjord (minus the bears), modern cleaning products have left us with the impression that they make our homes squeaky clean.Continue ReadingCategory: Society & Community, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and MindTags: Pollution, Terpenes,... Read more »

Some companies build a desalination plant and call it a day; others build a data center, while others, still, build power generation facilities. One project wants to build all three … into one facility … offshore … on a movable ship.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, EngineeringTags: Data Center, Ships, Water... Read more »

I have issues with AI in general, but one issue I haven't been able to understand is how Google, with enough money and talented staff to produce something impressive with its LLM, has produced the dumbest model I have ever tried to engage with. So, instead of swearing at it... Read more »

A protein thought to play a critical role in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease may not originate where scientists thought, according to a recent study out of Columbia University.Continue ReadingCategory: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and MindTags: Tau protein, Tauopathy, Alzheimer's disease, Neurodegenerative conditions, Dementia, Amyloid-beta protein, Columbia University... Read more »

Yamaha is adding an exciting little number to its sport bike lineup with the R2, a lightweight follow-up to the R15 that's reigned supreme for nearly two decades.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Yamaha... Read more »

If anyone could defeat the “man of steel,” it would be a “man of stainless steel.” However, even stainless steel has its electrochemical kryptonite. Scientists have now created a new version of stainless steel that can withstand conditions only a “man of titanium” typically could, and without the cost, paving... Read more »

Fast fashion drastically changed the world by making clothes cheaper and more affordable than ever, but it came with a huge environmental cost. This has pushed scientists to look for new, more sustainable materials that could replace conventional synthetic fabrics.Continue ReadingCategory: Materials, EngineeringTags: Fungus, Textile, Biodegradable... Read more »

Over the past years, I have given more than a hundred keynotes to Medical Affairs teams around the world. These conversations have given me a […] The post 5 Things That Will Define The Future Of Pharma’s Medical Affairs appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

We hear a lot about AI, but almost nothing about the work essential for the healthcare AI revolution: labeling and annotating data so algorithms can learn from it. Who does it? How? Why? Let's see! The post Data Annotators: The Unsung Heroes Of Artificial Intelligence Development appeared first on The... Read more »

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making headlines practically every day. Some praise its ability to provide new medical insights, while others point to concerning privacy risks […] The post 3 Health Innovations That Would Not Exist Without AI appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

We can have a more accurate estimate of the future using the right prediction methods. Here is one, called forecasting. Part 1 of our "Futures series" The post How To Predict The Future Of Healthcare: Method #1 – Forecasting appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

What if you loath the AI friend of your human friend? Will you be punched in the face because your AI Karen just told a random stranger in the supermarket they are talking nonsense? How will you deal with losing a friend to a hardware failure? We have so many... Read more »

Car crashes, home injuries, fires, natural disasters: every minute – if not every second – spent without treatment in such cases of medical emergencies and […] The post The Future of Emergency Medicine: 6 Technologies That Make Patients The Point-of-Care appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

Existing digital health solutions can take on new, critical roles beyond their conventional uses. The post Best Examples Of Digital Health For Patients With Intellectual Disability appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

With over a dozen FDA approved exoskeletons and 84 existing medical products on the market we must prepare for great advancements in this segment. The post Exoskeletons In Healthcare: The Era Of Great Advancements appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

Our new Nature Comment introduces “translational foresight”: a framework for bringing futures methods into the everyday machinery of science. Every research programme is, in one […] The post Science Needs A Better Way To Think About The Future appeared first on The Medical Futurist.... Read more »

Astronomers have used the MeerKAT radio telescope to detect hydrogen gas located billions of light-years away, from a period when the cosmos was billions of years younger.... Read more »

Beam into these stellar celebrations to mark the sci-fi franchise's historic anniversary this Labor Day Weekend!... Read more »

Venus is sinking into the sunset as it catches up with Earth — and a small telescope now reveals something the naked eye never can: another planet going through phases.... Read more »

Scientists are close to understanding how stars forge the elements that comprise our planet, bodies and pretty much everything else around us, and how they explode to distribute these elements.... Read more »

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a spectacular 'super bubble' in our Milky Way's nearest neighbor the Large Magellanic Cloud. Check out our space photo of the day.... Read more »

On Sept. 4, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft performed the first-ever rocket maneuver in deep space as it did a quick mid-course correction on its way to Venus. Here's why it mattered.... Read more »

New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a "fossil record" dating back 4.6 billion years to the formation of the sun, revealing the role magnetism played in the birth of the solar system.... Read more »

An explosive hands-on demo has us more excited than before for the new action RPG led by BioWare veterans, who talked to us about its making.... Read more »

A rare look at a centaur transforming into a comet with coma is providing a missing link in the evolution of small, icy solar system bodies.... Read more »

Sega and Creative Assembly's long-awaited survival horror sequel hits the ground running with a new cast of characters and a fast-paced prologue.... Read more »

After an 8-year trek to Mercury, BepiColombo will finally split into two spacecraft ready to track down the secrets of the least-explored planet in the inner solar system.... Read more »

The latest 'Strange New Worlds' takes the silliness to warp factor nine, but soap opera plots have long been part of the 'Star Trek' mix... Read more »

After nearly eight years traveling through the inner solar system, the trailblazing BepiColombo spacecraft has finally begun its arrival at Mercury.... Read more »

Comet McNaught brightened dramatically during two outbursts around perihelion as it made a close approach to the sun.... Read more »

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