• Elon Musk learns the hard way that being a Twitter troll is way more fun than being a mod

    The most expensive forum drama of all time? Ihonestly did not think chaos would engulf Twitter so quickly, but I must admit: this rules. This owns so hard. Awoooou (wolf howl), Twitter is good again. We’re no longer locked in here with Elon Musk — Elon Musk has locked himself in here with us. Musk took control…

  • How Microsoft finally landed helicopters and gliders for Flight Simulator

    Helicopters and gliders arrive in Microsoft Flight Simulator’s 40th Anniversary Update. Developers at Asobo and Microsoft have spent a lot of time getting the details right. Today is a big day for Microsoft Flight Simulator fans, as helicopters and gliders finally take to the skies in the 40th Anniversary Edition of the game. While these two new…

  • Teleportation breakthrough paves the way for quantum internet

    Teleportation breakthrough paves the way for quantum internet

    A Dutch team has succeeded in exchanging qubits between distant nodes with no direct connection between sender and receiver. Quantum computing is advancing in both tiny and giant steps. Tiny, because what is achieved involves unique breakthroughs of limitations; giant, because each stride opens up a world of infinite possibilities. One such step has been taken…

  • Tesla Bot-like humanoid robots could be a $150 billion business, says Goldman Sachs

    Tesla Bot-like humanoid robots could be a $150 billion business, says Goldman Sachs

    Humanoid robots, like the recently unveiled Tesla Bot, could be a $150 billion-a-year business within the next 15 years, according to a new Goldman Sachs report. The idea of robots taking over menial tasks and reducing labor costs has been around for a long time, but it has taken on a different meaning. Robots have…

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    A new metaverse is promising to be epic and expansive — and was recently awarded $250,000 to develop functionality even further. Moonland will allow users to create their own avatars, and explore new cities. They’ll even be able to become landowners — or run their own businesses. Beyond social experiences and battle arenas, Moonland will…

  • AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours

    / ‘For me, the concern was just how easy it was to do’ It took less than six hours for drug-developing AI to invent 40,000 potentially lethal molecules. Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a…

  • SoundCloud buys AI that claims to predict hit songs

    /  AI is the new A&R SoundCloud has acquired audio AI company Musiio, which makes tech that can “listen” to new music and purportedly identify the hits. The acquisition, announced Tuesday, is meant to help SoundCloud sort through its immense library of amateur music and will “become core to SoundCloud’s discovery experience,” the company said in…

  • Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient

    /  It claims Blake Lemoine breached its confidentiality policies Google has placed one of its engineers on paid administrative leave for allegedly breaking its confidentiality policies after he grew concerned that an AI chatbot system had achieved sentience, the Washington Post reports. The engineer, Blake Lemoine, works for Google’s Responsible AI organization, and was testing whether its…

  • Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022

    /  Designed to train the next generation of machine learning systems Social media conglomerate Meta is the latest tech company to build an “AI supercomputer” — a high-speed computer designed specifically to train machine learning systems. The company says its new AI Research SuperCluster, or RSC, is already among the fastest machines of its type…

  • Sony and Honda plan to start selling their electric cars in the US in 2026

    /  The jointly-developed EVs will distinguish themselves with a focus on in-car software and entertainment. The first cars will be built in Honda’s US plants. Sony and Honda have announced that they plan to start selling their jointly-developed electric vehicles in the US in early 2026. The US has been chosen as the first market because of…

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