Humans have been building ping-pong playing robots for decades, such as Omron’s FORPHEUS that challenged amateur competitors at CES 2017. What sets Ace apart from the rest is that the robot, which was developed by Sony’s AI division, is the first that can hold its own against top-ranked human players and occasionally even beat them […]
Aging is an evolutionary balancing act with reproductive effort.
The hiccups you’ve been cursing since lunch are older than you could ever possibly imagine — a ghost signal from ancestors who never set foot on land.
The people who research, make and invest in vaccines are nervous. Some companies have started pulling back on their vaccine work.
A shrimp virus called CMNV has jumped into humans, causing a new eye disease linked to handling and eating raw seafood. The virus is already global.
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
The Northern Territory plans to phase out barramundi gillnets by next year, but a rollback on camera monitoring means 80 percent of fishing will go unrecorded during the transition. For endangered sawfish and other threatened species, that blind spot c…
A waxing crescent moon will pass just a few degrees from Jupiter tonight, creating one of April’s most striking naked-eye sky pairings.
With an IPO looming for Elon Musk’s SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for $60 billion or pay a fee of $10 billion. Buying this startup that’s focused on AI coding could help xAI’s tools compete with market […]
Even astronauts need to level up their laptops once in a while – including the crew of Expedition 74 on board the ISS, which NASA announced last week is in the process of some computer upgrades. According to NASA, the crew met on Friday to review plans to “first replace network servers then activate their […]