Apple AirPods: a gateway hearing aid

Apple AirPods: a gateway hearing aid
Prices should be coming down: In October 2022, the FDA approved the sale of over-the-counter hearing aids without a prescription ...
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The Download: Clean energy progress, and OpenAI’s trilemma

The Download: Clean energy progress, and OpenAI’s trilemma
—Joshua A. Basseches is the David and Jane Flowerree Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Public Policy at Tulane University. ...
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The Download: Pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native artists’ tech interpretations

The Download: Pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native artists’ tech interpretations
People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments ...
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Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening

Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening
Squarely in the middle Taiwan’s modern security uncertainties stem from the long-­contested issue of the island’s sovereignty. After losing the ...
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Indigenous knowledge meets artificial intelligence

Indigenous knowledge meets artificial intelligence
Suzanne Kite’s AI art installations, for example, model a Lakota framework of data sovereignty: intelligence that emerges only through reciprocal, ...
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The Download: Taiwan’s silicon shield, and ChatGPT’s personality misstep

Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening
Taiwanese politics increasingly revolves around one crucial question: Will China invade? China’s ruling party has wanted to seize Taiwan for ...
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Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies

Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies
Reagan, by all accounts, believed that SDI would be the ultimate tool of peace for all nations, and he even ...
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The Download: affordable EV trucks, and Russia’s latest internet block

The Download: affordable EV trucks, and Russia’s latest internet block
One more thing How environmental DNA is giving scientists a new way to understand our world Environmental DNA is a ...
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The road to artificial general intelligence

The road to artificial general intelligence
Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in ...
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The Download: A quantum radar, and chipmakers’ deal with the US government

The Download: A quantum radar, and chipmakers’ deal with the US government
Physicists have created a new type of radar that could help improve underground imaging, using a cloud of atoms in ...
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