Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis Says Gemini Is a New Breed of AI
Demis Hassabis has never been shy about proclaiming big leaps in artificial intelligence. Most notably, he became famous in 2016 after a bot called AlphaGo taught itself to play the complex and subtle board game Go with superhuman skill and ingenuity. Today, Hassabis says his team at Google has made a bigger step forward—for him,…
The battle to bring beavers back to Scotland
The reintroduction of beavers has already transformed parts of the Scottish landscape and provided much-needed habitats for many animals, delighting conservationists but alarming some landowners Source link
Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT
Increasing talk of artificial intelligence developing with potentially dangerous speed is hardly slowing things down. A year after OpenAI launched ChatGPT and triggered a new race to develop AI technology, Google today revealed an AI project intended to reestablish the search giant as the world leader in AI. Gemini, a new type of AI model…
How 2023 shattered nearly every modern climate record
A wildfire rages near Athens, Greece Valerie GACHE / AFP This year’s COP28 climate summit began with a stark reminder of what is at stake during the coming fortnight of climate negotiations in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At the opening of the summit, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released their State of the Global Climate…
9 Great Deals on Electric Kettles, Mugs, and Tumblers
The holidays are around the corner. These next few weeks might feel a little hectic, but sipping on a warm, cozy cup of tea is always the answer when you’re looking for a sense of peace amidst the madness. You’re in luck because we’ve found some great deals on our favorite electric kettles, plus WIRED-tested…
Physicists have worked out how to pour water as quietly as possible
Can you pour without making a sound? Shutterstock / lavsketch The key to pouring water very quietly from a teapot is not just holding the spout close to the cup, but creating a perfectly smooth stream of liquid. Mouad Boudina at Seoul National University in South Korea drinks tea every morning. Repeatedly pouring tea into…
Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications
According to Wyden, the records that governments can obtain from Apple and Google include metadata that reveals which apps a person has used, when they’ve received notifications, and the phone associated with a particular Google or Apple account. The content of push notifications is not included in this information, but, for at least some apps,…
The music you should play at a party to ensure conversations flow
Conversations may flow more easily at parties if the background music is obscure skynesher/Getty Images If you want your guests to be particularly sociable at an upcoming party, play music they probably haven’t heard before. Jane Brown at the University of Memphis in Tennessee and her colleague Gavin Bidelman at Indiana University Bloomington wanted to…
The Binance Crackdown Will Be an ‘Unprecedented’ Bonanza for Crypto Surveillance
One attraction of Binance, as the company grew from its 2017 founding into the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, was the firm’s freewheeling flouting of rules. As it amassed well over 100 million crypto-trading users globally, it openly told the United States government that, as an offshore operation, it didn’t have to comply with…
Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones for the first time
A femur, one of the bones that held traces of cannabis Gaia Giordano, Mirko Mattia, Michele Boracchi, et al. The first evidence of cannabis discovered in archaeological skeletal remains comes from bones of people buried under a hospital in Milan, Italy, in the 17th century. “Molecules of medicinal plants can be detected by toxicological analysis…