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Tardigrades may have taken over the Moon
There’s live on the Moon!!! At least since 2019 when Israeli Beresheet spacecraft crash-landed on the…
Deepfake queen to deliver Channel 4 Christmas message
Channel 4 will use deepfake technology for its alternative to the traditional Christmas broadcast. Read more…
Artificial intelligence solves Schrödinger’s equation
A team of scientists at Freie Universität Berlin has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method for…
Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri
Strange radio transmissions appear to be coming from our nearest star system; now scientists are trying…
Newly discovered Jupiter-like world could be the long-sought ‘Planet X’
When the Hubble Space Telescope set its sights toward the binary star system HD 106906, astronomers…
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations
The arxiv database used modern astronomy and statistical modeling to map the emergence and death of…
‘A moment of reckoning’: Microsoft’s president sounds a dire warning after the SolarWinds cyberattack
Brad Smith called for a global response to what he described as a threat to critical…
At NeurIPS 2020, researchers proposed faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
Backpropagation has led to impressive gains in AI and machine learning. But it has limitations researchers…
Even without the glitches, Cyberpunk 2077 is deeply average
It will take a massive improvement from the developer to turn this into something great Read…
Somehow, a Monstrous Supermassive Black Hole Has Gone Missing
The Universe is full of galaxy clusters, but Abell 2261 is in a class of its…
Scientists think they’ve detected radio emissions from an alien world
Scientists used a radio telescope in the netherlands to study three different stars known to host…
Store Hires Robot To Help Out Customers. It Does Not Go Well.
Robots will take over jobs within five, 10, or 20 years. You don’t get a lot…
Mouse-Controller Hybrid Aims To Dominate In First-Person Shooters
The first person shooter genre found its feet in the PC world, relying on the holy…
Electric airplanes are getting tantalizingly close to a commercial breakthrough
2020 has proven to be a milestone year for electric aviation. Read more at Quartz…
Facebook tracks ‘OceanLotus’ hackers to IT firm in Vietnam
Cybersecurity investigators at Facebook have traced a hacking group long suspected of spying on behalf of…
Google says Gmail, Drive, Photos files could be deleted within three years
Google has started notifying users by email that its new cloud storage policy will go into…
AI Neural Networks Could Soon Train on Smartphones
A new IBM invention could reduce energy costs associated with deep learning by sevenfold. Come read…
Shock test in boy, 4, could rewrite coronavirus timeline
A university in Italy claims to have found evidence of the first case of coronavirus one…
Physicists Prove Anyons Exist, a Third Type of Particle in the Universe
Physicists give us an early view of a third kingdom of quasiparticles that only arise in…