Is Ginkgo’s synthetic-biology story worth $15 billion? + This robot taught itself to walk entirely on its own. ( New Yorker $)ġ0 Turns out that dead spiders make excellent robots ( The Atlantic $)ĩ Undersea internet cables could soon detect tsunamis ?Īnd track them in real time to help swerve future disasters. + A kidney-stone eating pseudo-parasite appears to have given up parasitism.
Urinary tract, skin and stomach infections are just some of the less-than-pleasant illnesses they could cause.
( MIT Technology Review)Ĩ Floating plastic in the ocean is harboring nasty bacteria ? + How bike parking pods could make US cities better for cyclists. Lithium-ion batteries from China appear to be the culprit. + Spacetime warped around the Sun could hold the key to discovering alien life. NASA says it hasn’t been officially told, though. ( MIT Technology Review)Ħ Russia says it’ll withdraw from the ISS partnership in 2024 + What do psychedelic drugs do to our brains? AI could help us find out. ( MIT Technology Review)ĥ The new psychedelic drug renaissance is hereīut critics are wary it’s fueling psychedelic capitalism. + How pricing algorithms learn to collude. ( MIT Technology Review)Ĥ How Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing algorithm experiment backfiredĬharging Bruce Springsteen fans up to $5,000 per ticket was not a good move.
+ The new version of GPT-3 is much better behaved (and should be less toxic). Which could be incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands. ( Motherboard)ģ An AI convincingly masqueraded as a philosopher
+ A metaverse security update is annoying its early users. + Meta is raising the prices of its Quest 2 VR headset, too. + Facebook workers hoping for extra days off can think again. + He’s right to be worried-Meta is likely to report its first-ever revenue drop today. In order to make the metaverse work, he needs his employees to work even harder. + Smartphone sales in China are at their lowest level for a decade. I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.ġ ByteDance’s US news app reportedly pushed pro-China messagingįormer employees say they were also instructed to censor criticism of Beijing. Amid a growing epidemic of gun violence across the US, can AI be part of the solution? In the latest episode of our award-winning podcast, In Machines We Trust, we look at some of the weapons detection technologies schools are using to try to keep students safe, and delve into whether they’re delivering on their promise.