A viral GitHub project that claims to clone coworkers into a reusable AI skill is forcing Chinese tech workers to confront ...
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Cryonic preservation is pricey and might never work. Some people think it’s worth it anyway. This week I reported on some rather unusual research that focuses on the brain of L. Stephen Coles. Coles ...
Admissions Blogger Ellie Feng ’28 reimagines MIT as the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology—and offers a behind-the-scenes look at what went into the making of 30 celebratory pies.
The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.
They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people sheltered at home ...
If you’re following AI news, you’re probably getting whiplash. AI is a gold rush. AI is a bubble. AI is taking your job. AI ...
A new book by Stewart Brand, an architect of modern tech culture, asks: How do we prioritize maintenance? And why? But it ...
Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated.
Most of the public conversation regarding the use of AI-driven autonomous lethal weapons centers on how much humans should ...
Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently confirmed NASA ...
The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...