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The differences between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
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Smarter AI
Despite the immense progress in artificial intelligence in recent years, AI and robots are still dumb in many ways, especially when it comes to solving new problems or navigating unfamiliar environments.
One promising approach to improving the skills of AI is to expand its senses; currently AI with computer vision or audio recognition can sense things but cannot “talk” about what it sees and hears using natural-language algorithms. But what if you combined these abilities in a single AI system?
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Remote everything
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the world to go remote. Getting that shift right has been especially critical in health care and education. Some places around the world have done a particularly good job at getting remote services in these two areas ...
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Lithium-metal EV batteries
Electric vehicles are relatively expensive, and you can drive them only a few hundred miles before they need to recharge. All these drawbacks have to do with the limitations of lithium-ion batteries.
A well-funded Silicon Valley startup, QuantumScape, has developed a
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Messenger RNA vaccines
The new covid vaccines are based on a technology never before used in therapeutics, and it could transform medicine, leading to vaccines against various infectious diseases, including malaria.
And if this coronavirus keeps mutating, mRNA vaccines can be
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Green hydrogen
Hydrogen has always been an intriguing possible replacement for fossil fuels. It burns cleanly, emitting no carbon dioxide; it’s energy dense, so it’s a good way to store power from on-and-off renewable sources.
The rapidly dropping cost of solar and wind
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Data trusts
Technology companies have proven to be poor stewards of our personal data. Our information has been leaked, hacked, and sold and resold more times than most of us can count.
Data trusts offer one alternative approach that some governments are starting to ex...
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Digital contact tracing
As the coronavirus began to spread around the world, smartphone apps could use GPS or Bluetooth to create a log of people who had recently crossed paths. If one of them later tested positive for covid, that person could enter the result into the app, and it would alert others who might have been ...
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GPT-3
Large natural-language computer models that learn to write and speak are a big step toward AI that can better understand and interact with the world. GPT-3 is by far the largest—and most literate—to date.
Trained on the text of thousands of books and most of the internet, GPT-3 can ...
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Hyper-accurate positioning
We all use GPS every day; it has transformed our lives and many of our businesses. But while today’s GPS is accurate to within 5 to 10 meters, new hyper-accurate positioning technologies have accuracies within a few centimeters or millimeters.
China’s BeiDou (Big Dipper) gl...
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TikTok Algorithms
TikTok has become one of the world’s fastest-growing social networks. Why? Because the algorithms that power TikTok’s “For You” feed have changed the way people become famous online.
The ability of new creators to get a lot of views very quickly
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