The Diamond Battery Revolution: Energy for Millennia, Not Minutes
What if your next pacemaker or spacecraft didn’t need recharging... for 5,700 years?
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Post-Quantum Encryption: Securing the Future
Can post-quantum encryption save us from a quantum apocalypse, or are we encrypting answers to questions no one’s asked yet? The annual Cloudflare report has some interesting statistics.
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Quantum Leap: Google's Willow Chip and the Dawn of a New Era
Google’s latest quantum chip, Willow, is rewriting the rules of computation with a performance milestone that feels plucked from science fiction. Completing a task in five minutes that would take conventional supercomputers 10 septillion years.
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AI Cleans Up After Itself: Amazon’s New Carbon-Capturing Tech
Can the AI powering our data centers also clean up the environmental mess it creates? Amazon’s latest pilot suggests it can.
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Love in the Time of AI: Are Virtual Companions Rewriting Reality?
Can relationships with AI companions truly replace human connection, or are we crafting illusions to fill emotional voids?
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The Cost of Connection: Why AI Relationships Are a Dangerous Illusion
Millions are finding unexpected solace and heartbreak in AI companions, such as those from Replika and Kindroid. Users are developing a deep connection with AI, navigating the murky waters of love, guilt, and anthropomorphism.
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Synthetic Minds | Let's Build the Future Together
This week’s Synthetic Minds offers an opportunity to share your voice. I also explore AI that cloaks your selfies, VR empathy, the AGI hype debate, robots learning like babies, and the rise of autonomous weapons. Discover how these advancements impact our future and how you can shape it.
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Empathy in Pixels: Can VR End Prejudice?
If walking in someone else’s shoes could reduce bias, why aren’t more of us lacing up VR headsets?
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Social Media’s Funhouse Mirror: Distorting Reality, One Scroll at a Time
If social media reflects reality, why does it feel more like a circus of extremes?
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AGI: Revolutionary Promise or Illusionary Hype?
Despite the buzz, large language models may be more hype than hope when it comes to reaching true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
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