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Scientists Working on "Smart Dust" That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air
In his 1963 scifi story "The Invincible," the Polish writer Stanisław Lem imagined an artificial species of free-floating nanobots which roamed the atmosphere of a far-off planet. Like tiny bugs, the microscopic beings were powerless alone, but together they could form cooperative swarms to gather ...
12 hours ago
Futurism
Scientists Working on "Smart Dust" That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air
Scientists Find Evidence of Flowing Water on Giant Asteroid
Today, the near-Earth asteroid known as Ryugu is bone dry. But new research suggests that the over half mile-long space rock may have once been flowing with liquid water — and crucially, at a period in the solar system's history that's far later than what was thought possible.  The findings, published ...
1 day ago
Futurism
Scientists Find Evidence of Flowing Water on Giant Asteroid
Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy
Gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy as the Sun will in its 10 billion year lifespan in mere seconds. Typically, they're produced by stars dying in a spectacular supernova — a rapid collapse that completely obliterates the stellar object. But ...
1 day ago
Futurism
Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy
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The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program
The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they're impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation.
17 hours ago
WIRED Science
The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program
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OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake
OpenAI claims to have figured out what's driving "hallucinations," or AI models' strong tendency to make up answers that are factually incorrect. It's a major problem plaguing the entire industry, greatly undercutting the usefulness of the tech. Worse yet, experts have found that the problem is getting ...
13 hours ago
Futurism
OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake
Heroic Gas Station Clerk Realizes Elderly Women Are Being Scammed at the Bitcoin ATM, Unplugs It to Save Them
One of the core appeals of cryptocurrency, other than providing a seemingly easy way of making an assload of money, especially if you're an influential person like, say, a sitting president or an airheaded influencer, is that it's decentralized, potentially anonymous, and largely unregulated. That also ...
1 day ago
Futurism
Heroic Gas Station Clerk Realizes Elderly Women Are Being Scammed at the Bitcoin ATM, Unplugs It to Save Them
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Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong
It's one thing when a respected scientist has a novel idea of what dark matter or dark energy might be, or what could explain spooky quantum phenomena like entanglement and superpositions. But the wonders of the internet has brought an entire economy built on outrage and conspiracy theories, enabling ...
18 hours ago
Futurism
Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong
Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong
The technology is needed to limit global warming. But corporations are supporting it in lieu of reducing emissions.
1 day ago
WIRED Science
Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong
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