The Chinese government has embarked on an all-out drive to transform the technology from a remote concept to a newfangled reality, with applications on factory floors and in hospitals and government offices… “[E]xperts say Beijing is pursuing an alternative playbook in an attempt to bridge the gap” with America: “aggressively Read more…
Napster’s latest AI pivot is the latest in a series of attempts by various owners to ride its brand cachet during emerging tech waves. In March, it sold for $207 million to Infinite Reality, an immersive digital media and e-commerce company, which also rebranded as Napster last month. Since 2020, Read more…
In early July, a wasp nest with a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations was found inside the grounds of a sprawling Cold War-era nuclear site in South Carolina that today partly serves as a storage area for radioactive liquid waste. Federal officials said Friday that Read more…
Remember, it’s all synthesized “anthropomorphizing”. But with that caveat: In populations of simple software agents (like characters in “The Sims” but much, much simpler), having “guilt” can be a stable strategy that benefits them and increases cooperation, researchers report July 30 in Journal of the Royal Society Interface… When we Read more…
It’s a cultural milestone. Fiverr just released an ad mocking vibe coding. The video features what its description calls a “clueless entrepreneur” building an app to tell if an avocado is ripe — who soon ends up blissfully singing with an avocado to the tune of the cheesy 1987 song Read more…
“What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.” — Nikita Khrushchev
India’s national university ranking will start penalizing institutions if a sizable number of papers published by their researchers are retracted — a first for an institutional ranking system. Nature: The move is an attempt by the government to address the country’s growing number of retractions due to misconduct. Many retractions Read more…