Saturday, 27 September 2025

Artificial insect-inspired ‘brain’ can guide robotic dog through maze

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 235 views | 0 comments

UK start-up Opteran Technologies has demonstrated a system that can guide a robot through a maze using far less energy and weight than conventional approaches

Tags: Technology

Source: www.newscientist.com

How mRNA is transforming the way we treat illnesses from flu to cancer

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 199 views | 0 comments

The mRNA technique used in covid-19 vaccines recruits our bodies to make their own medicines. That could revolutionise treatments for all manner of conditions – and make personalised therapies cheaper and easier

Source: www.newscientist.com

US becomes world's largest bitcoin miner after China crackdown

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 215 views | 0 comments

The US now has a 35 per cent global market share in bitcoin mining, the largest in the world – the electricity to produce the cryptocurrency may come mostly from coal

Tags: Bitcoin , Mars

Source: www.newscientist.com

Spies may be storing data to decrypt with a future quantum computer

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 243 views | 0 comments

Quantum computers may one day break encryption, and security researchers say intelligence agencies may already be storing encrypted data with a plan to crack it in future

Tags: Mel B.

Source: www.newscientist.com

A new dawn in AI and quantum computing now looks tantalisingly close

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 202 views | 0 comments

Hopes of developing artificial general intelligence and a truly useful quantum computer are looking less fanciful thanks to recent breakthroughs

Tags: Genes

Source: www.newscientist.com

Supersized AIs: Are truly intelligent machines just a matter of scale?

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 229 views | 0 comments

Gigantic neural networks that write with remarkable fluency have led some experts to suggest that scaling up current technology will lead to human-level language abilities – and ultimately true machine intelligence

Tags: LEDs , Networks , Technology

Source: www.newscientist.com

Ron's Gone Wrong review: Robot friends and reasons to be offline

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 223 views | 0 comments

Disney's Ron’s Gone Wrong is a familiar story about a child and a robotic friend, but it soon moves into teresting territory about the dilemmas around online and offline life

Source: www.newscientist.com

AI-generated deepfake voices can fool both humans and smart assistants

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 218 views | 0 comments

Deepfake tools that mimic a particular individual's voice from just a few snippets of audio are good enough to trick humans and bypass voice recognition systems

Tags: Amy Smart , Audi

Source: www.newscientist.com

'Ionic wind' could power planes, save energy and fight wild weather

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 231 views | 0 comments

Airflow induced by electric fields, known as ionic wind, has already propelled a small aircraft – now engineers think it could help to ease the clean-energy transition and protect infrastructure from natural winds

Tags: Planes , Wine

Source: www.newscientist.com

Team of underground rescue robots wins $2 million DARPA prize

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 238 views | 0 comments

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $2 million to a team of quadruped and flying robots capable of exploring underground caves

Tags: DARPA , Wine

Source: www.newscientist.com

A maize meme shows why you shouldn't trust social media

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 215 views | 0 comments

There is an image circulating on social media looking at genetically modified corn, but its origins are extremely dubious, writes James Wong

Tags: Social media

Source: www.newscientist.com

EU votes to restrict AI use in law enforcement while UK rolls it out

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 230 views | 0 comments

Legislation working its way through the European Parliament could see a complete ban on the use of artificial intelligence in law enforcement

Tags: European Parliament , Law enforcement

Source: www.newscientist.com

Flying robot can also ride a skateboard and balance on a rope

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 220 views | 0 comments

A versatile robot inspired by birds can walk, balance on a slackline, skateboard and even fly – a mix of skills that could be useful for monitoring power lines or space exploration

Source: www.newscientist.com

Biological computer made from single-celled organisms can crunch data

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 228 views | 0 comments

Micro-organisms can now be used to construct a biological computing device that than study patterns in data to predict future events

Source: www.newscientist.com

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram back online after global outage

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 236 views | 0 comments

Facebook and its other services, including WhatsApp and Instagram, were offline on Monday evening after a "faulty configuration change"

Tags: Facebook , WhatsApp

Source: www.newscientist.com

Quantum computers can now fix their own mistakes without making more

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 230 views | 0 comments

The first demonstration of error correction on a quantum computer that doesn't lead to more mistakes is a step towards genuinely useful computation

Tags: Fire

Source: www.newscientist.com

Futuristic farm may use 250 times less water than normal

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 229 views | 0 comments

This vertical farm in Copenhagen uses robots to grow leafy vegetables under LED lights. The company behind it says this results in a reduction of water and energy use

Tags: Copenhagen , LEDs

Source: www.newscientist.com

Norwegian reservoirs power homes in Great Britain via 724km cable

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 207 views | 0 comments

A subsea electricity cable in the North Sea will allow renewable electricity from Norwegian reservoirs to power 1.4 million homes in the UK

Tags: Norwegian , Seal , Seat

Source: www.newscientist.com

DeepMind AI can accurately predict if it will rain in next 90 minutes

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 228 views | 0 comments

AI software developed by DeepMind and the Met Office in the UK can predict whether it will rain within 90 minutes more accurately than current forecasting models

Source: www.newscientist.com

Will the US or China win the race for global quantum dominance?

Added: 08.11.2021 1:24 | 227 views | 0 comments