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04/07/2024

Business of Tech podcast: Rod Drury on his post-Xero life as NZ's fixer

When you've had one of the most successful careers in business in New Zealand, what do you do next?For Xero founder Rod Drury, the answer is to spend his da...

03/07/2024

'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots

Living brain cells wired into organoid-on-a-chip biocomputers can now learn to drive robots, thanks to an open-source intelligent interaction system called MetaBOC. This remarkable project aims to re-home human brain cells in artificial bodies.

03/07/2024

World’s largest reactor to light 200,000 homes with nuclear power

19 D-shaped magnetic coils that will make up the core of ITER now arrived in France, to begin construction of the tokamak.

03/07/2024

Market forces are not enough to halt climate change

Investor returns imply that the welfare of future human beings is close to irrelevant

03/07/2024

What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?

So far the technology has had almost no economic impact

03/07/2024

Does the World Think? The Wisdom of Groups.. - Ahmad Hijazi

Does the World Think? Is thinking a characteristic of individuals or groups?

03/07/2024

RAG Does Not Work for Enterprises

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves the accuracy and relevance of large language model outputs by incorporating knowledge retrieval. However, implementing RAG in enterprises poses challenges around data security, accuracy, scalability, and integration. This paper explores the unique requir...

02/07/2024

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02/07/2024

Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges

Tech giant’s ambition of reaching ‘net zero’ by 2030 under threat from power demands of artificial intelligence systems

02/07/2024

‘Let’s not go overboard’ on worries about AI energy use, Bill Gates says

Microsoft co-founder argues Big Tech’s investment in power-hungry artificial intelligence systems is spurring a boom in clean electricity

02/07/2024

The NSA advises you to turn your phone off and back on once a week - here's why

Powering off your phone regularly, disabling Bluetooth when it's not needed, and using only trusted accessories are just some of the NSA's security recommendations.

02/07/2024

1.5 degrees Celsius is here and now - resilience

So is the climate system, for all practical purposes, now close to a 1.5°C trend? If CMIP6 is to be taken at face value, the answer is yes. And the data now seems consistent with those models.

02/07/2024

Invisible assassins: Nanobots detonate hidden weapon to kill cancer

Researchers develop nanobots killing cancer cells in mice by hiding lethal weapons inside DNA nanostructures.

02/07/2024

White House confirms US has intelligence on Russian anti-satellite capability | CNN Politics

The White House on Thursday confirmed that the national security threat flagged by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee the previous day is related to “an anti-satellite capability that Russia is developing,” but sought to soothe concerns about the danger it presents to the United St...

01/07/2024

The Cleantech Revolution - RMI

The energy system is being reshaped by the exponential forces of renewables, electrification, and efficiency.

01/07/2024

Net Zero Company secures $5.5M Seed for blockchain-based carbon removal token

Leveraging blockchain technology, the CRT offers accessibility, transparency, and traceability in the market for verified carbon credits.

01/07/2024

Atlas

Atlas is the global political party uniting humanity for its survival.

01/07/2024

If You’re Driving Off a Cliff, Do You Need a Faster Car? - resilience

Either we recover collective wisdom faster than our machines can develop artificial executive intelligence, or it’ll likely be game over.

01/07/2024

💌 Wouldst thou like a fairy tale?

Also: 11 ways to wisen up about AI

01/07/2024

Honest Government Ad | AI

The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative👉 Help us keep Government...

01/07/2024

🧠Mind Expanding 30 Jun 2024: firewalls for the mind🔒🛡️ seeing like a network🌐 cultural islanding🏝️ meta metacrisis🌀 vertical AI📈 substrate monopoly🏰 quantum particle interface🎛️

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30/06/2024

Photographer Wins Top Prize in an A.I. Competition for Non-A.I. Image

A real photograph entered by Miles Astray into the category of the 1839 Awards for images generated by A.I. won a jury award.

30/06/2024

This Is What Collapse Looks Like | how to save the world

Every day now, the news is replete with evidence that, everywhere, things are falling apart faster and faster, and nothing of consequence is being, or can be, done about it. Every civilization collapses, but the collapse of our current global industrial civilization is occurring at a breathtaking an...

30/06/2024

Learning from popup villages

I have participated in 3 popup villages (Zuzalu, Vitalia, and Edge Esmeralda) and each one has given me increasing conviction in popup villages as an important form-factor for growing network societies. This essay includes some reflections on successful popup villages, why they work, and where they....

30/06/2024

Sediments reveal the ancient ocean during a mass extinction event

About 183 million years ago, volcanic activity in modern South Africa unleashed an estimated 20,500 gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the ocean–atmosphere system over a period of 300 to 500 thousand years. Known as the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE), the lack of oxygen, or anoxia, in th...

30/06/2024

Banking on ecosystem services - ScienceDirect

The COP 15 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity emphasised the need to monitor, evaluate, and disclose the risks and dependencies of financial…

30/06/2024

Information Diet: High Agency vs Low Agency

When people mock you for not having an opinion on the new current thing: Start asking them about the current situation in Djibouti or Eswatini.

29/06/2024

George Mack

When people mock you for not having an opinion on the new current thing: Start asking them about the current situation in Djibouti or Eswatini.

29/06/2024

One-neutron transfer can beat nuclear fusion in output, here's proof

Neutron transfer has always fascinated scientists, but this time it shocked them. They found that one-neutron stripping can produce output similar to nuclear fusion, one of the most powerful nuclear reactions known to mankind.

29/06/2024

AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London

Tech firm’s bid to remove more CO2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentres

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