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China Leapfrogging the U.S. in Tech Innovation
Yves Smith
Yves here. Readers who have taken note of the performance of DeepSeek AI or other Chinese technical feats, like their super cheap EVs, dark factories, number of patents issued would not be surprised ...[Continue Reading]
Nakedcapitalism.com
1 day ago
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Deep-sea mining resurfaces thanks to Donald Trumps interest. Whats next?
Naimul Karim
The World Bank expects that a 500 per cent increase in producing minerals such as cobalt will be needed by 2050 just to feed the clean energy transition to batteries. Demand could increase by as much ...[Continue Reading]
Financial Post
1 day ago
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Griefbots Create Digital Immortality and Raise Ethical Concerns around AI Chatbots
Rachel Feltman, Naeem Amarsy, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific Americans Science Quickly, Im Rachel Feltman. The idea of digital life after death is something science fiction has been exploring for ages. Back in 2013 a chilling ...[Continue Reading]
Scientific American
1 day ago
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How to see a celestial 'gazelle' cross the night sky close to the Big Dipper this week
Anthony Wood
With the constellation Ursa Major high in the sky, late April presents an ideal opportunity to spot the 'Three Leaps of the Gazelle' asterism - a set of three stellar pairings hanging below the Great ...[Continue Reading]
Space.com
1 day ago
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Scaling Quantum-Dot-Qubit Systems
Nathaniel C. Bishop
Figure 1: The ten-quantum-dot array used by Zwolak and her colleagues to demonstrate their virtualization scheme. Charges are trapped in germanium quantum dots controlled by a set of barrier (dark bl ...[Continue Reading]
Aps.org
1 day ago
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Native American Perspectives On Dire Wolf De-Extinction
Sumeet Manhas
When Colossal Biosciences announced the successful resurrection of the dire wolf after 12,500 years of extinction, most media coverage focused on the scientific breakthrough or the animals pop cultu ...[Continue Reading]
Bitrebels.com
1 day ago