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Artificial Intelligence

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Is 2025 the Year AI Agents Take Over? Industry Bets Billions on AI’s Killer App

Edd Gent - December 27, 2024

Despite the hype around AI in recent years, the technology’s disruptive impact has been fairly modest. Experts say that’s likely to change next year...

The Tech World Is ‘Disrupting’ Book Publishing. But Do We Want Effortless Art?

December 17, 2024

Blurry, Morphing, and Surreal: A New AI Aesthetic Is Emerging in Film

December 10, 2024

Google DeepMind’s New AI Weatherman Tops World’s Most Reliable System

December 6, 2024

Most Supposedly ‘Open’ AI Systems Are Actually Closed—and That’s a Problem

November 30, 2024

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Watch the Complete Evolution of the Terminator’s Killer Robots

Jason Dorrier - July 3, 2015

What Is AI Superintelligence? Could It Destroy Humanity? And Is It Really Almost Here?

Flora Salim - November 1, 2024

‘Droidspeak’: AI Agents Now Have Their Own Language Thanks to Microsoft

Edd Gent - November 21, 2024

New Study Finds a Single Neuron Is a Surprisingly Complex Little Computer

Jason Dorrier - September 12, 2021

Biotechnology

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Exosomes Are Being Hyped as a ‘Silver Bullet’ Therapy. Scientists Say No.

Shelly Fan - December 26, 2024

When human stem cells were discovered at the turn of the century, it sparked a frenzy. Scientists immediately dreamed of repairing damaged tissues due...

AI That Can Design Life’s Machinery From Scratch Had a Big Year. Here’s What Happens Next.

December 23, 2024

Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons

December 19, 2024

How to Be Healthy at 100: Centenarian Stem Cells Could Hold the Key

December 18, 2024

Study Suggests an mRNA Shot Could Reverse This Deadly Pregnancy Condition

December 16, 2024

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Study Suggests an mRNA Shot Could Reverse This Deadly Pregnancy Condition

Shelly Fan - December 16, 2024

Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future

Sveta McShane - April 19, 2016

This AI Just Designed a More Precise CRISPR Gene Editor for Human Cells From Scratch

Shelly Fan - April 25, 2024

Solar-Powered ‘Planimal’ Cells? Chloroplasts in Hamster Cells Make Food From Light

Edd Gent - November 8, 2024

Computing

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Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons

Edd Gent - December 19, 2024

Brain implants have improved dramatically in recent years, but they’re still invasive and unreliable. A new kind of brain-machine interface using living neurons to...

Google’s Latest Quantum Computing Breakthrough Shows Practical Machines Are Within Reach

December 12, 2024

‘Electric Plastic’ Could Merge Technology With the Body in Future Wearables and Implants

October 25, 2024

Meta Has Launched the World’s ‘Most Advanced’ Glasses. Will They Replace Smartphones?

October 1, 2024

DNA Computing Evolves: New System Stores Data, Plays Chess, and Solves Sudoku Puzzles

September 20, 2024

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Atom Computing Says Its New Quantum Computer Has Over 1,000 Qubits

Jason Dorrier - October 25, 2023

An IBM Quantum Computer Beat a Supercomputer in a Benchmark Test

Shelly Fan - June 20, 2023

Quantum Computers Take a Major Step With Error Correction Breakthrough

Edd Gent - April 4, 2024

‘Electric Plastic’ Could Merge Technology With the Body in Future Wearables and Implants

Edd Gent - October 25, 2024

Space

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ET May Look Nothing Like Life on Earth. Scientists Want a Universal Theory of Life to Describe It.

Chris Impey - December 24, 2024

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do...

Astronomers Have Pinpointed the Origin of Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space

December 3, 2024

A 4.45-Billion-Year-Old Crystal From Mars Reveals the Planet Had Water From the Beginning

November 25, 2024

Europe Aims to Visit This Large Asteroid When It Brushes by Earth in 2029

November 5, 2024

Nuclear Rockets Could Take Us to Mars in Half the Time. NASA Plans to Fly One by 2027.

October 22, 2024

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Can AI save us from AI?

Jason Dorrier - December 9, 2014

NASA Visualization Shows Supermassive Black Holes That Could Swallow Our Solar System Whole

Jason Dorrier - May 7, 2023

Why Interstellar Travel Will Be Possible Sooner Than You Think

Mark Jackson - June 18, 2017

Exploding Stars Are Rare—but if One Was Close Enough, It Could Threaten Life on Earth

Chris Impey - April 16, 2024

Energy

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This Tiny House Is Made From the Recycled Heart of a Wind Turbine

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - December 2, 2024

If you’ve tried to rent or buy a home in the last few years, you may have noticed there’s a severe housing shortage in...

Scientists Say Net Zero Aviation Is Possible by 2050—If We Act Now

September 27, 2024

There Are Now More Electric Vehicles Than Gas-Powered Cars in Norway

September 19, 2024

UK Gives Sneak Peek of a Novel Fusion Reactor Shaped Like a Cored Apple

September 12, 2024

Meta Looks to Next-Gen Geothermal to Fuel Ravenous Data Centers

September 9, 2024

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Why Interstellar Travel Will Be Possible Sooner Than You Think

Mark Jackson - June 18, 2017

Meta Looks to Next-Gen Geothermal to Fuel Ravenous Data Centers

Edd Gent - September 9, 2024

Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

Edd Gent - August 9, 2021

Startup Will Drill 12 Miles Into Earth’s Crust to Tap the Boundless Energy Below

Jason Dorrier - February 14, 2022

Future

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Inside VillageOS: A ‘SimCity’-Like Tool for Regenerative Living Spaces

Aaron Frank - December 29, 2024

“We exist, and life exists on Earth, because of 12 to 14 inches of topsoil. When that goes away, we go away,” said James...

Is 2025 the Year AI Agents Take Over? Industry Bets Billions on AI’s Killer App

December 27, 2024

Automated Cyborg Cockroach Factory Could Churn Out a Bug a Minute for Search and Rescue

December 5, 2024

This Tiny House Is Made From the Recycled Heart of a Wind Turbine

December 2, 2024

Niantic Is Training a Giant ‘Geospatial’ AI on Pokémon Go Data

November 27, 2024

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Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future

Sveta McShane - April 19, 2016

Ray Kurzweil’s Mind-Boggling Predictions for the Next 25 Years

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - January 26, 2015

Niantic Is Training a Giant ‘Geospatial’ AI on Pokémon Go Data

Jason Dorrier - November 27, 2024

The World in 2025: 8 Predictions for the Next 10 Years

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - May 11, 2015

Tech

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Inside VillageOS: A ‘SimCity’-Like Tool for Regenerative Living Spaces

Aaron Frank - December 29, 2024

“We exist, and life exists on Earth, because of 12 to 14 inches of topsoil. When that goes away, we go away,” said James...

These Were the 10 Most Popular SingularityHub Stories of 2024

December 28, 2024

Is 2025 the Year AI Agents Take Over? Industry Bets Billions on AI’s Killer App

December 27, 2024

Exosomes Are Being Hyped as a ‘Silver Bullet’ Therapy. Scientists Say No.

December 26, 2024

ET May Look Nothing Like Life on Earth. Scientists Want a Universal Theory of Life to Describe It.

December 24, 2024

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 21)

Singularity Hub Staff - December 21, 2024

Setback For Student In Fight Against RFID Chips

Peter Murray - January 24, 2013

These Were the 10 Most Popular SingularityHub Stories of 2024

Singularity Hub Staff - December 28, 2024

Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons

Edd Gent - December 19, 2024

Robotics

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Automated Cyborg Cockroach Factory Could Churn Out a Bug a Minute for Search and Rescue

Edd Gent - December 5, 2024

Envisioning armies of electronically controllable insects is probably nightmare fuel for most people. But scientists think they could help rescue workers scour challenging and...

MIT’s New Robot Dog Learned to Walk and Climb in a Simulation Whipped Up by Generative AI

November 15, 2024

Watch: Boston Dynamics’ New Electric Atlas Robot Gets Down to Work

November 4, 2024

You’ll Soon Be Able to Book a Room at the World’s First 3D-Printed Hotel

October 10, 2024

This Biohybrid Robot Is Made of Human Cells and Controlled by a Machine ‘Mind’

September 30, 2024

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Nanorobots: Where We Are Today and Why Their Future Has Amazing Potential

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - May 16, 2016

This Is What Happens When We Debate Ethics in Front of Superintelligent AI

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - March 19, 2017

How Technology Is Driving Us Toward Peak Globalization

Banning Garrett - October 22, 2017

When Intelligent Machines Cause Accidents, Who Is Legally Responsible?

Peter Rejcek - January 30, 2017

Science

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ET May Look Nothing Like Life on Earth. Scientists Want a Universal Theory of Life to Describe It.

Chris Impey - December 24, 2024

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do...

The Secret to Predicting How Your Brain Will Age May Be in Your Blood

December 13, 2024

Thousands of Undiscovered Genes May Be Hidden in DNA ‘Dark Matter’

December 9, 2024

Why Are Our Brains So Big? Because They Excel at Damage Control

November 26, 2024

A 4.45-Billion-Year-Old Crystal From Mars Reveals the Planet Had Water From the Beginning

November 25, 2024

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Everything We See Is a Mash-Up of the Brain’s Last 15 Seconds of Visual Information

Mauro Manassi - February 4, 2022

What’s the Origin of Consciousness? Global Effort Puts Two Top Theories to the Test

Shelly Fan - June 2, 2021

A Secret to Healthy Aging May Be the Bugs in Your Microbiome

Shelly Fan - August 10, 2021

The Secret to a Long, Healthy Life Is in the Genes of the Oldest Humans Alive

Shelly Fan - August 10, 2020