2025-02-22
Blocking the Internet on People's Phones for Two Weeks Led to Profound Changes in Mental Health and Attention Span
Let's face it: we're all hopelessly addicted to our smartphones. Such is the power of having the internet at your fingertips at literally every single moment of the day. Is...
This New Paper About Eating Out of Plastic Containers Is a Bit Terrifying
We have some bad news for those of you that love getting takeout. Because those plastic containers that your steaming delicious meals come in? They may be sabotaging your heart...
The Smarter AI Gets, the More It Start Cheating When It's Losing
Strong Arm In the short history of Silicon Valley, the mantra "move fast, break things" has usually applied to trivial things like tedious consumer protections or pesky finance laws. Now...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Secret Hidden Power of Questions (2/22/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 22, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you...
O.XYZ Launches OCEAN – Cerebras-Powered AI Engine, 10x Faster Than ChatGPT
OCEAN is a next-generation decentralized AI assistant powered by the industry-leading Cerebras CS-3 wafer-scale chips. OCEAN offers blazing response times to a broad feature set that includes voice interaction and...
The Secret Hidden Power of Questions
Most people are running on default questions they never chose to install. Questions like "Why is this happening to me?" or "What if I fail?" create a self-fulfilling prophecy of...
Going Deep on ‘Deep’
Katy Steinmetz, writing for The Washington Post (via Mignon Fogarty): But lately, one meaning has become trendier than the rest. Close ties to artificial intelligence have led to a surge...
Microsoft Shows Off AI That Can Control an Entire Robot
Microsoft has released a new generative model, dubbed Magma, that can autonomously control robots. What could possibly go wrong? In its announcement, Microsoft claims its latest AI can process multimodal...
AI Designed an Alien Chip That Works, But Experts Can't Explain Why
Dip, Dip An international team of engineering researchers has demonstrated a blistering new approach to wireless microchip design powered by AI. The effort revealed that deep-learning — a type of...
Scientists Discover Ancient Farms in the Deep Sea
The “farmers” are invertebrates and the “crops” are microbes and all of it is dead.
Glaciers Are Shrinking at an Incredible Rate
An international team of researchers has made a worrying discovery: our planet's glaciers are melting at even more alarming rates than previously expected, in large part due to human-driven climate...
Even NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is Getting Its Budget Slashed
Less than four years after its showstopping launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is facing massive budget slashes that will, experts worry, harm scientific progress. As Space.com reports, the research...
Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the constant hype surrounding AI. During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh...
AI Models Are Learning to Prioritize Their Thoughts—And It’s Wildly Effective
A smarter way to allocate computing resources in AI transformers is making them faster and more efficient.
Body Panels Flying Off Cybertrucks on Highway, Drivers Report
Fly Aways At this point, it might be fair to say the Cybertruck is the most politically charged vehicle in contemporary history. The bulky steel tanks seem to court vandals...
What If AI Could Skip the Boring Parts? Google Researchers Just Made It Happen
A smarter way to allocate computing resources in AI transformers is making them faster and more efficient.
This Clever AI Hack Could Cut Processing Costs in Half
A smarter way to allocate computing resources in AI transformers is making them faster and more efficient.
New AI Method Lets Models Decide What to Think About
A smarter way to allocate computing resources in AI transformers is making them faster and more efficient.
Windows at Tesla Dealership Blown Out by Gunfire
As anti-Elon-Musk sentiment reaches a fever pitch, a Tesla dealership has found itself caught in the crossfire — again. Local authorities and federal agents are investigating a shooting that took...
Google Researchers Develop New AI Tech That Doesn't Waste Brainpower on Useless Words
A smarter way to allocate computing resources in AI transformers is making them faster and more efficient.
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