Google engineer Blake Lemoine caused a stir earlier this month when he claimed that the search giant’s LaMDA chatbot has gained sentience. Following his claims, Google put him on administrative leave for violating its confidentiality policy. Previously, a researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division also hinted that they are on the verge of achieving human-level AI.
Androids that are part human, part robot are a staple of science fiction. But they’re now a step closer to reality after researchers crafted a living skin for robots out of human cells.
Battery technologies are evolving at a rapid pace—and for good reasons. With the automotive world moving toward electrification, companies need to find solutions for producing electric vehicles on a massive scale. While lithium-ion battery technology rules the roost today, that isn’t stopping firms from developing the next big leap forward.
The brainwaves of a dying human brain were captured for the first time in a Vancouver patient
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have been inspired by nature to create a new, programmable super ‘metamaterial’.
Decaying isotopes of hydrogen have just given us the smallest measurement yet of the mass of a neutrino.
Scientists were able to measure time dilation at a distance of just a millimeter, about the width of a pencil tip.
Other patches in the multiverse would have, instead, met their ends.
Source: Science News If you hate having your bubble burst, you’ll love these “everlasting” bubbles. While soap bubbles are known for their fragile constitutions, the new bubbles can stick around for more than a year before they pop, scientists report January 18 in Physical Review Fluids. Instead of soap and water, the bubbles are made with water, microparticles
The bigger a quantum battery, the faster it charges.
