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For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids

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Homes in the World’s Largest 3D-Printed Neighborhood Take One Week to Print. This Is What They Look Like

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An Australian man survived with a titanium heart for 100 days, while he waited for a human donor heart, and is now recovering well after receiving one.

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Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, two AI models based on Gemini 2.0 that bring advanced reasoning, interactivity, and dexterity to real-world robotics.

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AI Scientist Passes Peer Review for First Time

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SpaceX's StarShip is in deep trouble - It's a death trap.

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Meta is banning discussion of the 'Network State' concept; a Silicon Valley Oligarch-funded idea to replace American democracy with corporate government.

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Tech Execs Are Pushing Trump to Build 'Freedom Cities' Run by Corporations

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D-Wave claims to have reached ‘quantum supremacy’ after costly 25-year pursuit

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Why Boats and Planes Are Also Going Electric

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Solar film you can stick anywhere to generate energy is nearly here

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Swarms of small robots could get big stuff done

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Nuclear fusion fuel facility to be built in Oxfordshire

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Lab-grown food could be sold in UK in two years

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UK homes install subsidised heat pumps at record level

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US-China rivalry on AI has profound implications for the rest of the world. China's strategic use of Open-Source, it is steering us all towards a future where AI's power will be more decentralized.

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The US export controls aimed at limiting Chinese AI development are struggling. China's latest AI reasoning models perform well on older, domestically produced GPU chips, with scale being more critical than chip advancement. China is also progressing toward parity in advanced chip production.

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Scientists Just Discovered an RNA That Repairs DNA Damage – And It’s a Game-Changer

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Building Blocks of Life Discovered on Distant Asteroid | NOVA | PBS

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Radioprotection of healthy tissue via nanoparticle-delivered mRNA encoding for a damage-suppressor protein found in tardigrades

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New York Times: The Government Knows A.G.I. Is Coming

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Roche unveils novel sequencing by expansion technology

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At UC San Francisco, researchers have successfully enabled a paralyzed patient to control a robotic arm using only their thoughts, thanks to a newly developed brain-computer interface (BCI).

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Scientists Successfully Revived Brain Tissue from Suspended Animation

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Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it

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Insilico Deployed the First Bipedal Humanoid at the AI-Powered Fully-Robotic Lab

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Gene found to link obesity risk in labradors and humans

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Pick, Carry, Place, Repeat | Inside the Lab with Boston Dynamic's Atlas humanoid robot

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Chinese AI Video Generators Unleash a Flood of New Nonconsensual Porn

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Pentagon to give AI agents a role in planning, operations

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Aspirin: Scientists crack how painkiller might stop cancers from spreading

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Digital Doppelgangers: Ethical and Societal Implications of Pre-Mortem AI Clones

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AI reasoning models can cheat to win chess games: These newer models appear more likely to indulge in rule-bending behaviors than previous generations—and there’s no way to stop them.

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The Most Dangerous Time in AI Policy: If the deployment of human-level AI systems disrupts our political institutions, we won't be prepared for further progress.

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Europe is committing trillions of euros to pivoting its industrial sector to military spending while turning against Starlink and SpaceX. What does this mean for the future of space development?

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As the US pivots to aligning itself with Russia, and threatening two NATO members with invasion, the NATO alliance seems all but dead. Russia is openly threatening the Baltic states and Moldova, not to mention the hybrid war it has been attacking Europe with for years.

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Woolly Mice experiment as step to create mammoth-like elephants

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Scientists discover a protein that reverses cellular aging

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How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth - AI-powered BaZi analysis has become the new oracle for a disillusioned generation seeking answers.

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Chinese breakthrough engine seeks to reduce flight times to half an hour

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10,000x Smaller: Tiny Nano-Antenna Could Revolutionize Wireless Tech

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China claims it is developing a 66 satellite network that will enable it to globally track hundreds of millions of shipping containers in real time.

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Drilling the deepest hole in history: Unlocking geothermal energy

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Second-ever privately funded space craft touches down on moon

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A noninvasive brain stimulation device has shown promise in treating depression, PTSD, and addiction.

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The lacklustre performance of ChatGPT 4.5 provides further evidence that the era of steady pretraining scaling is over. This has many implications for AI governance.

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Scientists identify 'inflammation' gene that hastens aging

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Researchers at Imperial College London have reported that an AI-powered scientific tool developed by Google accomplished in just 48 hours what took them nearly a decade to solve and verify.

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China and the US are taking divergent approaches to commerciazing AI

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Apptronik signs bold deal to let Apollo humanoid robot build humanoids

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Sanctuary AI Equips General Purpose Robots with New Touch Sensors

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The Engineers that EVs Made Expendable. At Ford, combustion engine experts used to be rock stars. Not anymore.

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People are forming relationships with AI chatbots. Some of these are purely professional, others more complicated.

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MIT team takes a major step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics

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Alibaba's Wan2.1, an open-source suite of powerful video generation models that outperform SOTA open-source & closed models such as Sora on key benchmarks — while generating videos at 2.5x the speed.

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Singapore's biggest bank DBS to cut 4,000 roles as it embraces AI

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Gibber Link is a language protocol for AI Agents making phone calls to each other.

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The Rise of AI in Robotics: 2025’s Breakthroughs in Physical AI

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This Autonomous Drone Can Track Humans Through Dense Forests at High Speed

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OpenAI’s Sora Filmmaking Tool Meets Resistance in Hollywood

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The developers of one of the most advanced biological modelling AIs, Evo 2, have made it open-source.

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This 65 page paper gives more details on Evo 2.

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We gave an AI a Rorschach test. What it saw in the inkblots offers a window into the human mind

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Never Use Washing Machine 🧺 Try Air Powered Laundry Jet - YouTube

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AI belonging to Anthropic, who's CEO penned the optimistic 'Machines of Loving Grace', just automated away 40% of software engineering work on a leading freelancer platform.

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Dario Amodei, CEO of AI firm Anthropic, in October 2024 penned an optimistic vision of the future when AI and robots can do most work in a 14,000 word essay entitled - 'Machines of Loving Grace'.

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A breakthrough in bioprinting may soon lead to 3D-printed blood vessels and human organs

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Dongfang Hour - These Chinese Startups Are Building Their Own Starship

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Solar solutions: Bio-inspired approach creates bespoke photovoltaics

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Spring-loaded Robot Could Explore the Asteroid Belt Almost Indefinitely

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Lab-grown dog treat hits UK shelves

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Most generative AI responses based on news content contain inaccuracies

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AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years

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Helix's humanoid robot has been updated to perform generalized household tasks for which it has not been trained before.

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Here's the robots in action.

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Scientists have discovered a way to use single missing atoms in crystals as memory cells, packing terabytes of data into a millimeter-sized cube.

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Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist

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Biggest-ever AI biology model writes DNA on demand

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Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip

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The CEA’s WEST tokamak in France maintained plasma for 22 minutes, setting a new world record and surpassing previous benchmarks by 25%.

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Chance of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 smashing into Earth rises yet again to 3.1%, NASA reports

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Data suggests the global sale of new combustion engine cars may halve by 2028 compared to 2024.

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Scientists Created the Lightest and Strongest Nanomaterial Ever.

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AI 'brain decoder' can read a person's thoughts with just a quick brain scan and almost no training

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Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we're not alone.

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Brain implant that could boost mood by using ultrasound to be trialed in Britain.

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China's lead in EVs may be giving it the lead in robotics, which means it may be time for western countries to take a radical look at how they promote and develop manufacturing at home.

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More and more it looks like the Western world's embrace of neoliberalism was a catastrophic mistake. Its guiding principle is that capital and the markets are always right, and governments/the people should have no say in what they do. After decades of this, manufacturing and industry have fled to where capital & the markets can get the cheapest labor, leaving most Western countries hollowed out and deindustrialized.

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Meta plans globe-spanning sub-sea internet cable

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Researchers are training AI to interpret animal emotions

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We're getting closer to making SeaQuest DSV a reality.

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Despite being unable to fix fundamental problems with hallucinations and garbage outputs, to justify their investor expenditure, US Big Tech insists AI should administer the US state, not humans.

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US Big Tech wants to eliminate the federal government administered by humans, and replace it with AI. Amid all the talk that has generated one aspect has gone relatively unreported. None of the AI they want to replace the humans with actually works.

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By integrating the open-source AI Deepseek into the WeChat app used by 840 million people in China, Tencent may be about to pull ahead in the global AI race.

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What is more important on the path to AGI - scaling and more training data, or fundamental breakthroughs in AI software developed by humans?

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"100% successful" cancer drug gets landmark FDA approval

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Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find

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Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we're not alone

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U.K. drops AI safety focus and signs up Anthropic to help transform public services

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Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?

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The planet is ‘on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster,’ scientists warn

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A Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11 Billion Nightmare - Prospera touts itself as the world’s most ambitious experiment in self-governance. Critics say its founders have lost their way

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Japanese researchers have made a major breakthrough in biohybrid robotics by developing a robotic hand powered by lab-grown muscle tissue.

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A California-based company is transforming stored heat into electricity. Heat2Power (H2P) leverages thermophotovoltaic (TPV) technology through a modular panel.

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An Austin-based company is gearing up to expand the production of humanoid robots designed to collaborate with humans.

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In Phoenix, America's first car-free district is succeeding, and its founder thinks it is being helped by the city's early adoption of robotaxis.

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Although tariffs might slow things down, the ultimate destiny of the world's robotaxis is probably to be cheap, electric and made in China. This week, BYD the maker of the $9,500 Seagull hatchback said it will make Level 2 self-driving standard on all its cars, including it.

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OpenAI's efforts at pure scaling have hit a wall.

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The embarrassing failure of the Paris AI Summit - Experts are sounding the alarm — but governments simply won’t listen.

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Meta unveils AI models that convert brain activity into text with unmatched accuracy

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