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Gone are the days when business plans and funding agreements could fit on one of Lion & Compass' cocktail napkins in Silicon Valley. That was truly a heyday for technology companies, which received gargantuan amounts of money and then…

To spot a deepfake, look for the stars in their eyes. New research shared at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in Hull suggests AI-generated fakes can be spotted by analyzing human eyes in the same way astronomers…

This is cool in a terrifying way. Joby's hydrogen-electric demonstrator aircraft made a 523-mile flight above Marina, CA. There were no emissions except for water. Joby's battery-electric air taxi development demonstrates hydrogen's…

From the dawn of humanity, we've been fascinated by what is "out there." We have countless movies and TV series about humanity's contact with otherwordly beings, covering every scenario. Alien and Predator introduce us to malevolent…

A new study proposes a framework for “Child Safe AI” after incidents revealed that children often see chatbots as trustworthy. Chatbots show signs of an “empathy gap” that could pose a risk to young users. The study claims there’s an urgent…

Caribbean islands are moving away from importing fossil fuels in favor of using their abundant sun and wind power for electricity. Frequent hurricanes, however, are problematic for solar energy generation. Researchers at the Department of…

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory achieved a breakthrough with a new microelectronic material. In a new study published in Advanced Materials, the Argonne team proposed a new kind of ​“redox…

Amazon recruited AI talent from startup Adept. It isn't stealing—Amazon will license technology from Adept, including AI models and datasets. Amazon's AI unit learned that the company hired Adept co-founder and CEO David Luan and "a few…

A psychology study published by USC in PLOS ONE demonstrates that  AI-generated jokes are funnier than people-created ones. The research team behind the study compared participants’ reactions to jokes written by ChatGPT 3.5 and others…

The International Space Station (ISS) will de-orbit in 2031, and three companies are working with NASA to design new space stations to replace ISS. NASA is also using private companies to build the first lunar space station. Maxar and…