If prior votes and clearly stated policy positions mean anything, there will be a substantial difference regarding the future of crypto and a potential CBDC in the U.S., depending on the outcome of election 2024.
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NOSTR NOT LEAVING FREE SPEECH TO CHANCE
Not content to trust your free speech to a centralized “web 2.0” social media platform?
AI QUICK TAKES:
In case people aren’t already buying enough stuff on Amazon, the global retailer is offering the services of Rufus, an AI shopping assistant, to all U.S. customers.
AI SYSTEMS WILL USE UP THE INTERNET IN LESS THAN 10 YEARS. THEN WHAT?
Generative AI models get “smarter” by subsuming more and more information found on the Internet.
AI IS TRAINING TO QUICKLY IDENTIFY PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN SPECIES
Scientists estimate that millions of species, mostly insects, have yet to be identified. Researchers at Indiana University are trying to change that: they’re training an AI to sort the known from the unknown.
AI IS ON SMARTPHONES. HOW’S THAT GOING?
Apple has promised to bring a version of ChatGPT to its iPhones this year. Samsung already has built an AI into its new phones and, so far, users are taking to it.
AI BRINGS NEW SENSE TO PROSTHETIC HAND
After a London woman lost her right arm in an accident, she decided, “OK, I need a replacement and it’s not going to be like some dud that has no function,” she told The New York Times.
DRUG COCKTAIL CURES DIABETES IN MICE
Scientists at Mount Sinai Hospital and the private City of Hope research center have created a combination of drugs that has reversed diabetes in three months in tests on mice.
LASERS INSTANTLY TURN WASTE PLASTIC INTO TINY DIAMONDS
At Germany’s University of Rostock, scientists blasted plastic waste with lasers and microdiamonds rained out.
LIVING ROBOTS REPRODUCE THEMSELVES
In “‘Living Robots’ Made From Frogs” (9 Feb 2021), we introduced readers to Xenobots, biological machines made from frog embryos’ heart and skin cells. Microsurgeons assembled the cells according to a design evolved by a computer. The cells formed tiny organisms that moved.