Google wants nuclear reactors to power its AI data centers

Google is the latest tech company to seek nuclear energy to cope with the high demand of electricity propelled by its development of AI.

Human genome stored on ‘everlasting’ memory crystal

UK scientists have stored the full human genome on a 5D memory crystal - a revolutionary data storage format that can survive for billions of years.

Robotaxis Are Giving 100,000 Rides a Week. It'll Soon Be More.

Commerical self-driving cars are no longer a fantasy. Tens of thousands of paying customers are trusting them for rides on congested city streets.

DNA "computer" solves sudoku and stores millions of GB for millennia

A full DNA computer is a step closer, thanks to a new technology that could store petabytes of data in DNA for thousands or even millions of years. The system can also process data, as demonstrated by solving sudoku puzzles.

MIT researchers create a super-fast and super-tough transistor

The ferroelectric material transistor could be used to make NVMe SSDs last a whole lot longer.

New Ultrafast Chip Paves Way For 4K Movie Downloads in Seconds

Imagine a future where internet connections are not only lightning-fast but also remarkably reliable, even in crowded spaces.

'AI scientist' created to run its own experiments

Researchers at Sakana.AI, a Tokyo-based company, have worked on developing a large language model (LLM) designed specifically for scientific research.

When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself

As A.I.-generated data becomes harder to detect, it’s increasingly likely to be ingested by future A.I., leading to worse results.

New Laser Network Could Make Space-to-Earth Contact 1,000X Faster

A new 'laser-powered' project being launched in the state of Western Australia could revolutionize global communications.

AI poses no existential threat to humanity, new study finds

Increasing model size does not lead LLMs to gain emergent reasoning abilities, meaning they will not develop hazardous abilities and therefore do not pose an existential threat. 

Fusion Closer to Reality as Scientists Smash Density Limit by Factor of 10

Nuclear fusion promises a virtually limitless, sustainable energy source via processes similar to those powering the Sun, provided some rather tricky and fundamental physics problems can be figured out first.

Robots face the future

Researchers have found a way to bind engineered skin tissue to the complex forms of humanoid robots. This brings with it potential benefits to robotic platforms such as increased mobility, self-healing abilities, etc.

Trillionth of a Second Shutter Speed Allows "Camera" To See Through Atomic Disorder

Speeding up a camera shutter a million million times enables researchers to understand how materials move heat around and is a major step in advancing sustainable energy applications.

Time Crystals Could be the Circuit Boards of Future Quantum Computers

Researchers say that time crystals could one day become a core component in the construction of quantum computers.

AI Designs Radical Magnet Free of Rare-Earth Metals in Just 3 Months

We urgently need to move away from fossil fuels, but electric vehicles and other green technology can put their own pressures on the environment. That pressure could be eased with a new magnet design that was built with AI.