Eni, Italy’s national oil company, has married AI and the world’s most powerful supercomputer outside of the U.S. to find new oil and gas deposits.
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ANOTHER INDUSTRY ENDANGERED BY AI
The online education industry—tutoring, exam prep, and similar services—was flooded with $17.3 billion in investments during the COVID War as students were locked down at home.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI GETTING BETTER, HUMANS, NOT SO MUCH
New research published in the science journal Societies has taken perhaps the most detailed look yet at the effects of growing human use of and reliance on generative AI.
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SURGICAL ROBOT LEARNS ITS TRADE BY WATCHING VIDEOS
Robots have been doing surgery for 40 years, with their grippers and snippers guided by human surgeons using joysticks.
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QUANTUM SOFTWARE FOR YOUR QUANTUM COMPUTER
Quantum computers, which capitalize on quirks of quantum physics to operate orders of magnitude faster than silicon-based machines, are barely emerging from the experimental stage but software designers are already making programs for them.
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HYBRID EVS ARE SO YESTERDAY. NOW SUPER-HYBRIDS ARE HERE.
Hybrid vehicles are evolving. The most common type has a battery pack that can move a car for short distances before the gasoline engine takes over.
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HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP LINKED TO SPEEDIER TUMOR GROWTH
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a common sweetener, is produced from cornstarch and contains a higher proportion of fructose than table sugar.
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WELCOME TO 2025: WHERE YOUR FREEDOMS GO TO DIE
Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025? So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs, saber-rattling, graft, corruption, and make-works programming that leaves us no better off than where we started.
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CRYPTO TECH MAY NEVER FIT THE TRADITIONAL MAINSTREAM—AND THAT’S A GOOD THING
A recent Atlantic piece painted a “boom and gloom” picture of how Trump administration “deregulation” of the crypto sector would fuel the next financial crisis.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE — MARKET OVERVIEW
Inflation is all the economic “news.” It’s deflation in China, they say inflation in Europe is OK and in the U.S., today’s headline article on CNBC is, Stocks give up earlier gains as traders await more inflation data.
