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In February, just before the AU’s AI policy draft came out, Shikoh Gitau, a computer scientist who started the Nairobi-based…

The World Mosquito Program is about to start construction on a mass rearing facility—the biggest in the world—in Curitiba. “And…

The news: A new AI agent from Google DeepMind can play different games, including ones it has never seen before…

The key is contrails, thin clouds that planes produce when they fly. Minimizing contrails means less warming, and changing flight…

Mr. Mussabeh Al Kaabi: Hydrogen and CCS offer great promise, but, like any other transformative technology, they require R&D attention,…

Methane emissions are responsible for nearly a third of the total warming the planet has experienced so far. While there…

In training AI systems, games are a good proxy for real-world tasks. “A general game-playing agent could, in principle, learn…

June 2023 Astronomy should, in principle, be a welcoming field for blind researchers. But across the board, science is full…

The reason for these outcomes is structural. The network effects of tech platforms push a few firms to become dominant,…

To spark innovation by identifying gaps and pain points in the employer-based health-care system, JPMorgan Chase launched Morgan Health in…

How it works: Jets release heat, water vapor, and particulate matter that can produce thin clouds in the sky, known…

For one thing, Barrett says, researchers still need to test, refine, and engineer systems that can reliably predict, with enough…

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Even when the two sentences had the same meaning, the models were more likely to apply adjectives like “dirty,” “lazy,”…

In the attack, hackers create an app that injects malicious code into the Meta Quest VR system and then launch…

The new model, called RFM-1, was trained on years of data collected from Covariant’s small fleet of item-picking robots that…