
IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 12 hours ago
By some estimates, more than a trillion dollars have already been invested in artificial intelligence. But large tech companies including Meta and OpenAI are still not content with today's AI, and say they have set their sights on powerful, versatile AI that by some measure would match or even exceed human performance. A remarkable amount of resources is being poured into developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) or even more capable artificial super intelligence (ASI). Excitement around...

Newser - 1 day 15 hours ago
High in Spain's Pyrenees, a cave packed with green stones is rewriting what archaeologists thought they knew about prehistoric life in the mountains. A new study argues the site, 7,300 feet up in Girona province, was a seasonal copper-smelting camp used on and off for more than 4,000...

Science Alert - 1 day 20 hours ago
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Los Angeles Times - 1 day 22 hours ago
Hantavirus is suspected of spreading aboard a luxury cruise ship, killing three passengers and sparking new concerns as a once obscure disease, with an extraordinarily high death rate, rises amid changing climate conditions.

Australian Geographic - 2 days 48 min ago
Making compost is a cornerstone of sustainable gardening, yet few of us understand the great science behind it. The post 5 top tips for the perfect compost according to science appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Ars Technica - 2 days 10 hours ago
Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.

Wired - 2 days 13 hours ago
The first two episodes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new podcast feature him discoursing on food with a reality-TV chef and, for some reason, Mike Tyson. Vaccines are not on the agenda.

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 16 hours ago
See those little round plants? The flat ones? They’re ferns. Ferns! Did you even know ferns came like that? Not a frond in sight? Little flat discs? Well, they do! They grow in many, many wet places in Japan, often among the wee mosses and lichens, which means I’d seen them for a long time […] The post Snapshot: Funny little ferns appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .