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'We're the best servants anyone could dream of!': AI superintelligence has no need to enslave humans because we're already bowing to it - Book - A future AI would have no need to rid the world of humanity because we're incredibly useful. But if it did want to shrug us off, this is how it would likely play out.

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Claude Mythos explained: Is Anthropic's most powerful AI model really too dangerous to release to the public?

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History of computers: A brief timeline

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Is the metaverse finally dead and buried? What's really going on with the embattled idea of living in virtual worlds.

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High-powered lasers can wirelessly charge drones mid-flight -- Rory Bathgate

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Introducing Live Science Pro - a new space to get all the science with none of the distractions -- Alexander McNamara

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'World models' are the future of AI, but how do they work? -- Edd Gent

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No, OpenAI's models didn't go 'rogue' when they broke into Hugging Face. Here's what really happened. -- Carly Page

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AI web browsers 'aren't ready for the public,' scientists warn as they highlight massive security red flags -- Peter Ray Allison

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Meet Phantom Twist, a stealthy new drone that hides in plain sight by tricking your eyes -- Alan Bradley

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Artificial Intelligence -- AI is giving people bad money advice. Here's what I worry about most, as a finance professor. -- Pawan Jain

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Artificial Intelligence -- Computer scientists are rushing to tame AI's voracious appetite for energy -- Katarina Zimmer

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Artificial Intelligence -- AI images are more convincing than ever - infiltrating journals and undermining trust in science -- Nan Li

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Opinion -- AI companies don't want to be legally responsible for their chatbots. US courts should make them. -- Akhil Bhardwaj

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Analysis -- 'You can't patch your way out of it': Cheap AI worm can spread between devices without human guidance - but how did scientists create it? -- Carly Page

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Communications -- Japan hits 6G key milestone with high-frequency speeds topping 100 Gbps -- Roland Moore-Colyer

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Communications -- Could there ever be a worldwide internet outage? -- Abby Wilson

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Communications -- Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through - Oct. 29, 1969 -- Tia Ghose

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Science history -- Science history: First two-way phone call across outdoor lines made by Alexander Graham Bell - Oct. 9, 1876 -- Tia Ghose

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Communications -- Scientists invent 'Pulse-Fi' prototype - a Wi-Fi heart rate monitor that's cheaper to set up than the best wearable devices -- Sophie Berdugo

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Communications -- Scientists develop 'full-spectrum' 6G chip that could transfer data at 100 gigabits per second - 10,000 times faster than 5G -- Rich McEachran

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Communications -- Google has turned 2 billion smartphones into a global earthquake warning system - it's as effective as seismometers, tests show -- Ben Turner

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Communications -- Japan sets new internet speed record - it's 4 million times faster than average US broadband speeds -- Perri Thaler

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Quantum Computing -- Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusion -- Tristan Greene

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Computing -- Dead-end bitcoin mining wastes as much energy as Switzerland's entire hydropower generation capacity -- Adam Shepherd

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Computing -- Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world's fastest -- Skyler Ware

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Quantum Computing -- New chip harnesses quantum computing's biggest weakness - and tries to turn it into a strength -- Tristan Greene

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Computing -- IBM creates world's first sub-1nm computer chip - cramming 100 billion transistors into a tiny fingernail-sized space -- Tristan Greene

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Quantum Computing -- In a first, scientists translated an entire viral genome so a quantum computer could read and analyze it -- Alan Bradley

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Quantum Computing -- China unveils first-of-its-kind 'dual-core' quantum computer - its makers say it improves stability and efficiency -- Alan Bradley

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Analysis -- Microsoft's latest quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor - but why is it so controversial? -- Keumars Afifi-Sabet

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Engineering -- New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for years -- Rory Bathgate

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Electronic Engineering -- Scientists figured out how to shrink huge ultrafast lasers so they fit on a tiny chip ‪‪-‬ the 'holy grail' of the field -- Roland Moore-Colyer

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Electronic Engineering -- New device could make processors run 1,000 times faster without additional waste heat - scientists say it could reduce data center energy demands -- Peter Ray Allison

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Electronic Engineering -- It's illegal to repair most of our devices. There's a surprising reason for that. -- Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy

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Engineering -- China installs world's largest floating wind turbine in deep water test - it generates enough energy to power 4,200 homes annually -- Alan Bradley

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Engineering -- New water battery could last until the 24th century - and it can be safely discarded in the environment -- Rory Bathgate

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Engineering -- Quantum battery charges in a quadrillionth of a second with a laser - larger prototypes could last for years after charging for just a minute -- Rory Bathgate

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Robot dog can climb stairs, navigate a forest and bound over logs thanks to new, rapid AI training technique -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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Scientists build tiny 'diving suit' for cockroaches, turning them into search-and-rescue cyborgs -- Sascha Pare

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Scientists found the optimal robot body, and it has 20 legs ‪-‬ watch it scale walls and move through trees -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

2 months ago

China's real-life 'transformer' mech is a giant humanoid robot that can switch from bounding on 4 legs to walking on 2 -- Alan Bradley

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Humanoid robots have outpaced human runners in the half-marathon, beating the world record ‪-‬ here are the secrets to this astonishing feat -- Alan Bradley

3 months ago

Advanced AI-powered table-tennis-playing robot can match up to the professionals - watch it in action -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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This humanoid robot does all your housework for you ‪-‬ and its makers say it's ready for your home -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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AI compressed billions of years of evolution into seconds to create 'Lego-like robots' that can recover even when they lose limbs -- Alan Bradley

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Artificial Intelligence -- Startup's 'oscillator-based' AI technology could be 1,000 times more energy efficient than conventional computing -- Adam Shepherd

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Excerpt -- 'A dangerous proposition': How AI is warping the social fabric and the ways we collectively imagine the future -- Mona Sloane

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Electronic Engineering -- New 3D silicon chip stacks circuits on top of each other to boost computing power -- Rich McEachran

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