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This Nuclear Reactor Just Made Fusion Viable by 2030. Seriously. TAE Technologies, the world’s largest private fusion company, has announced it will have a commercially viable nuclear fusion power plant by 2030, which puts it years—or even decades—ahead of other fusion technology companies. The Cal...

DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regulations with self-driving claims Tesla is “under review” by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to determine whether the electric car maker misleads customers by advertising its “full self-driving capability” option, the agency told The Times. A ...

World's first raw earth material 3D-printed house is ready for residents TECLA represents a viable model and key example of low-carbon housing construction that attains close to a net zero footprint as a result of its reliance on 100 percent locally-obtained raw earth materials and the elimination ...

Move over CRISPR, the retrons are coming While the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system has become the poster child for innovation in synthetic biology, it has some major limitations. CRISPR-Cas9 can be programmed to find and cut specific pieces of DNA, but editing the DNA to create desired mutations re...

Advanced Computer Model Enables Improvements to “Bionic Eye” Technology Researchers at Keck School of Medicine of USC develop signals that could bring color vision and improved clarity to prosthesis for the blind. There are millions of people who face the loss of their eyesight from degenerative ey...

Google plans to build a commercial quantum computer by 2029 Google developers are confident they can build a commercial-grade quantum computer by 2029. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the plan during today's I/O stream, and in a blog post, quantum AI lead engineer Erik Lucero further outlined th...

For news and discussions relating to AI-generated and manipulated media, including deepfakes, style transfer, natural language generation, music synthesis, and more! https://miro.medium.com/max/2000/1*eLycHqhlX0XOBegPSJ-Fzw.jpeg Deepfake dubs could help translate film and TV without losing an actor’...

Normally I'd start with a news article, but I'd rather relaunch this thread with a mention of something curious I found while looking for said topic-starting articles to post: so many neoliberal news groups seem obsessed with downplaying technological unemployment and the progress in AI that it's al...

The further back you go, the more interesting it becomes to me. Circa 2000 BCE, large-scale civilization was still historically "new," being an innovation that dated back maybe one thousand years (possibly more if the archaeological record gets proven as too incomplete to be useful). Most ...