A new study by researchers at several Irish universities including University College, Dublin substantiates Bitcoin’s use as a hedge against high inflation.
Tag: sep 24 2024
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MEGATECH COMPANIES WAGE WAR ON EU’S AI REGULATIONS
The world’s giant tech companies are pressing the European Commission (EC) to lighten the strictures and mandates the pending AI Act would place on developers and to scale back the schedule of fines, which could cost violators billions of euros.
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CHATBOT BETTER THAN PEOPLE AT DEBUNKING CONSPIRACY THEORIES
From chemtrails to QAnon, the U.S. public discussion has a strong undercurrent of conspiracy theories.
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IS OPENAI WORTH $150 BILLION?
OpenAI, the company that launched the AI revolution by introducing ChatGPT, is shopping for more funding.
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BLACKROCK, MICROSOFT CREATE AI INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND
Blackrock, the world’s richest private equity firm, and Microsoft are part of a group that has created an investment fund to build data centers and energy supplies to meet AI’s exploding infrastructure needs.
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U.K. POLL FINDS 70 PERCENT WANT TOUGH LAWS ON AI
More than 70 percent of the 2,000 respondents in a British OnePoll survey want stricter laws controlling AI, specifically to slow down the breakneck pace of advances.
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“VIRTUAL LAB” RUNS THOUSANDS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH A FEW CLICKS
There are millions of genetic mutations whose effects are unknown. Some might have therapeutic benefits. Weeding through them all to find out which ones have value could take millions of hours of lab work.
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NEW TECH LETS YOU LITERALLY READ A PERSON’S THOUGHTS
The Miniaturized Brain-Machine Interface (MiBMI) from EPFL, Switzerland’s university of technology, is an electronic chip smaller than a postage stamp but can gather signals from 512 of the brain’s information channels simultaneously.
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A CHEAPER WAY TO HARVEST MORE LITHIUM FROM WASTEWATER
Battery producers are scrambling to tie down supplies of lithium, the metal at the heart of mobile technologies. By some estimates, demand for lithium will quadruple from 2022 through 2029, while new mines face delays put up by regulators and environmentalists.
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BALD NO MORE? NATURAL SUGAR REGROWS HAIR ON MICE
For the 50 percent or more of men who will see their hair disappearing down the shower drain at some point, researchers at the University of Sheffield and Pakistan’s COMSATS University have promising news: a sugar present in humans and animals seems to regrow hair.