Researchers at the University of Chicago have built the world’s first anode-free, solid-state sodium battery.
Category: 16 July 2024
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POLAND CONSIDERS INTERCEPTING MISSILES OVER UKRAINE, NATO SAYS WARSAW IS ON ITS OWN
Radosław Sikorski, the anti-Russian Polish foreign minister who embarrassingly had to delete a post thanking the U.S. for bombing the Nord Stream pipeline, told reporters that Poland may begin intercepting Russian missiles over Ukraine.
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XIAOMI’S NEW FACTORY: A MILLION SMARTPHONES, ZERO HUMANS
We’ve seen the images of Foxconn’s electronics assembly caverns with young women sitting elbow to elbow along seemingly endless benches, assembling iPads and cell phones.
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ARE HEADPHONES THE NEW PSYCHOACTIVE DRUG?
In the 1960s, proponents of LSD urged people to “tune in, turn on, and drop out.” There’s new evidence that you can turn on by tuning in your headphones.
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AL MICHAELS RETURNS AS OLYMPIC COMMENTATOR—SORT OF
Al Michaels, who offered some of the first play-by-play and color commentary on the televised Olympics decades ago will be heard again, this time narrating the nightly Olympic highlights to be broadcast by cable network Peacock.
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AI THAT’S SO GOOD YOU CAN’T HAVE IT
Microsoft has developed VALL-E 2, a voice-cloning AI that mimics a person’s voice and speech patterns so perfectly that the company won’t release it to the public.
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AI SPEEDS TRICKY CANCER DIAGNOSES
Medical technicians can spot cancer by analyzing sugar in blood samples. It’s easy to find the sugars by scanning samples with a mass spectrometer.
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TARGET EMPLOYEES NOW HAVE AN AI SIDEKICK
Chain retailer Target is putting finishing touches on Store Companion, a know-it-all chatbot that store employees will access through a handheld device.
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NATO: CHINA IS A ‘DECISIVE ENABLER’ OF RUSSIA’S WAR IN UKRAINE
China was labeled a “decisive enabler” of Moscow’s war in Ukraine and, in doing so, “increases the threat Russia poses to its neighbors and to Euro-Atlantic security,” NATO members said during a summit last week.
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TECH FIRMS’ AI FRENZY CONTRADICTS THEIR STATED CLIMATE GOALS
Google has promised to cut its carbon emissions by 50 percent compared to 2019; Microsoft pledges it will be carbon negative by 2030.