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New AI Startup Giving Robots Virtual Heart Rate, Body Temperature, Sweating Response So They Can Better Emulate Human Emotions ...

A teen tech titan wants to retrofit robots to give them artificial bodily functions and feelings — and train AI models on their data. In an interrview with TechCrunch, Teddy Warner, the 19-year-old boy genius behind the "emotionally intelligent robots" company Intempus, explained why thinks "feeling" ...

23 hours ago

Futurism

New AI Startup Giving Robots Virtual Heart Rate, Body Temperature, Sweating Response So They Can Better Emulate Human Emotions ...

Futurism

Hanky Panky With Naughty AI Still Counts as Cheating, Therapist Says

Having phone sex with an AI chatbot is, as it turns out, quite upsetting to one's unwitting IRL partner. That's the takeaway from a recent HuffPost column in which Marisa Cohen, a licensed marriage and family therapist, affirmed that having phone sex with anyone — or anything — except for one's ...

24 hours ago

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Hanky Panky With Naughty AI Still Counts as Cheating, Therapist Says

Futurism

400 Women Are Suing Pfizer Over Birth Control Shot That Allegedly Gave Them Brain Tumors

Recent research has linked Pfizer's widely-used Depo-Provera birth control shot to massively increased risk of developing brain tumors — and hundreds of women are suing the pharmaceutical giant over it. According to a press release filed on behalf of the roughly 400 plaintiffs in the class action ...

1 day ago

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400 Women Are Suing Pfizer Over Birth Control Shot That Allegedly Gave Them Brain Tumors

Futurism

Scientists Spot Mysterious Object in Our Galaxy Pulsing Every 44 Minutes

Astronomers have spotted something strange and spectacular: a mysterious object that keeps emitting dual X-ray and radio wave pulses every 44 minutes. In a press release from Australia's Curtin University, which was part of the international team that detected the object just 15,000 light-years away ...

1 day ago

Futurism

Scientists Spot Mysterious Object in Our Galaxy Pulsing Every 44 Minutes

Futurism

Drone Footage Shows What Appears to Be a Cheap Tesla Prototype Zooming Around a Test Track

A YouTuber flew a drone over Tesla's Fremont test track and saw what may be its new cheap model racing around. According to the Teslarati blog, new flyover footage from an account that calls itself "Met God in Wildnerness" — which along with frequent Fremont flyovers also publishes what appear to ...

1 day ago

Futurism

Drone Footage Shows What Appears to Be a Cheap Tesla Prototype Zooming Around a Test Track

Futurism

Secret OpenAI Memo Describes Plans to Make Users Rely on "Entity"

An internal OpenAI document somehow ended up in the discovery process for an antitrust trial against Google — and the revelations about ChatGPT are quite freaky. As The Verge reports, the Justice Department's ongoing attempts to break up Google's alleged monopoly garnered an OpenAI memo detailing ...

1 day ago

Futurism

Secret OpenAI Memo Describes Plans to Make Users Rely on "Entity"

WIRED Science

A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person

Paradromics, a brain-computer-interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology.

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WIRED Science

A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person

WIRED Science

How to Make AI Faster and Smarter—With a Little Help from Physics

Rose Yu has drawn on the principles of fluid dynamics to improve deep learning systems that predict traffic, model the climate, and stabilize drones during flight.

1 day ago

WIRED Science

How to Make AI Faster and Smarter—With a Little Help from Physics

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Science - The Verge

New York Times Science

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Dwarf Planet Very Far From the Sun

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach its closest point to the sun is in the year 26186.

2 days ago

New York Times Science

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Dwarf Planet Very Far From the Sun

New York Times Science

John Brenkus, Who Merged Sports and Science on TV, Dies at 53

His “Sport Science” program was whimsical and fun, showing how golfers can drive balls so far and how snowboarders’ quad flips generated G-forces.

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New York Times Science

John Brenkus, Who Merged Sports and Science on TV, Dies at 53

National Science Foundation