What Range Anxiety? These Chinese Electric Cars Charge in Just Five Minutes

A major barrier to widespread adoption of electric vehicles is the time it takes to recharge them. This week, Chinese ...
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Brain Scans of Infants Reveal the Moment We Start Making Memories

A giggling toddler in a pink dress and matching headphones lies down on her back in front of a gigantic ...
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Scientists Discover Thousands of New Microbial Species Thriving in the Mariana Trench

A human can’t survive in the Mariana Trench without protection. At its deepest, the trench plunges 35,000 feet below the ...
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Two Moon Landings in a Week—One Dead, One Alive—Aim to Kickstart the Lunar Economy

A growing number of companies are eyeing the moon as a source of commercial opportunities. Two private landings in under ...
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New Tech Bends Sound Through Space So It Reaches Only Your Ear in a Crowd

What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without disturbing anyone around you? ...
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 8)

Artificial Intelligence Eerily Realistic AI Voice Demo Sparks Amazement and Discomfort OnlineBenj Edwards | Ars Technica “In late 2013, the ...
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A Massive AI Analysis Found Genes Related to Brain Aging—and Drugs to Slow It Down

When my grandad celebrated his 100th birthday with a bowl of noodles, his first comment was, “Nice, but this is ...
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DARPA Wants to ‘Grow’ Enormous Living Structures in Space

Space stations break down. Satellites get damaged. Repairing them requires launching replacement components on rockets. The US Defense Advanced Research ...
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What Google Translate Tells Us About Where AI Is Headed Next

The computer scientists Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto have been recognized for a long track record of influential ideas with ...
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 15)

Future Powerful AI Is Coming. We’re Not Ready.Kevin Roose | The New York Times “I believe that the right time to ...
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