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This is what Jupiter looks like in infrared.
-Credits: NASA/JWST
-Credits: NASA/JWST
June 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is what Jupiter looks like in infrared.
-Credits: NASA/JWST
-Credits: NASA/JWST
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'Cultural historian Watt Smith disentangles our thinking about this most vital of relationships, roaming across the past 100 years and more. . . A generous, timely book.' Observer
Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships by Tiffany Watt Smith is out today!
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships by Tiffany Watt Smith is out today!
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
April 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
'Cultural historian Watt Smith disentangles our thinking about this most vital of relationships, roaming across the past 100 years and more. . . A generous, timely book.' Observer
Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships by Tiffany Watt Smith is out today!
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships by Tiffany Watt Smith is out today!
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
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Tomorrow (April 25) at 2 pm EDT: Please join the National Gallery of Art in welcoming Hugo Shakeshaft to discuss the ideas presented in his new book, Beauty and the Gods. He will be in conversation with classicist and fellow PUP author Mary Beard.
Learn more: www.nga.gov/calendar/lec...
Learn more: www.nga.gov/calendar/lec...
April 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Tomorrow (April 25) at 2 pm EDT: Please join the National Gallery of Art in welcoming Hugo Shakeshaft to discuss the ideas presented in his new book, Beauty and the Gods. He will be in conversation with classicist and fellow PUP author Mary Beard.
Learn more: www.nga.gov/calendar/lec...
Learn more: www.nga.gov/calendar/lec...
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"The New Kingdom of Granada," by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez tells the history of the making and unmaking of empire in the diverse and decentralized Indigenous landscapes of the Northern Andes. Read the intro for free on our website! #LatinAmericanStudies #History
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March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"The New Kingdom of Granada," by Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez tells the history of the making and unmaking of empire in the diverse and decentralized Indigenous landscapes of the Northern Andes. Read the intro for free on our website! #LatinAmericanStudies #History
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The age of generalist robotics is here,” said Huang. “With NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1 and new data-generation and robot-learning frameworks, robotics developers everywhere will open the next frontier in the age of AI.
AI Tech Giant Nvidia Partners With Disney and Google on Next-Generation Robotics Software
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the partnership at his company's developer conference Tuesday.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The age of generalist robotics is here,” said Huang. “With NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1 and new data-generation and robot-learning frameworks, robotics developers everywhere will open the next frontier in the age of AI.
Stormy Pyeatte works with practical effects and projection mapping. The Verge worked with her to create the evocative visuals in “Friend or Faux?” — a story layered with ethical and philosophical questions about the newly unfolding relationships some people have with AI chatbots. @theverge.com
One creator talks visualizing AI companionship
Projecting much? The art of The Verge’s “Friend or Faux?”
www.theverge.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Stormy Pyeatte works with practical effects and projection mapping. The Verge worked with her to create the evocative visuals in “Friend or Faux?” — a story layered with ethical and philosophical questions about the newly unfolding relationships some people have with AI chatbots. @theverge.com
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Siobhan Roberts calls Do Plants Know Math? "a work of both rigor and whimsy."
Check out the full review in the @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Check out the full review in the @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘Do Plants Know Math?’ Review: Evergreen Algebra
The complex geometry of plant structures drives both scientific investigation and artistic inspiration. It also may provide clues about the nature of intelligence.
www.wsj.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Siobhan Roberts calls Do Plants Know Math? "a work of both rigor and whimsy."
Check out the full review in the @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Check out the full review in the @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
In Malawi, about 19 out of 1,000 babies die during delivery or in the first month of life. The software tracks the baby’s vital signs during labour, giving clinicians early warning of any abnormalities.
How AI monitoring is cutting stillbirths and neonatal deaths in a clinic in Malawi
The only hospital in the country using foetal safety software has seen baby fatalities drop by 82% in three years
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:08 AM
In Malawi, about 19 out of 1,000 babies die during delivery or in the first month of life. The software tracks the baby’s vital signs during labour, giving clinicians early warning of any abnormalities.
The report concluded that while the AI boom will substantially enrich giant tech companies, creators’ rights and income streams will be drastically reduced unless policymakers step in.
Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds
AI boom will enrich giant tech companies but creators’ rights and income will be drastically reduced unless policymakers intervene, report warns
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 7:07 AM
The report concluded that while the AI boom will substantially enrich giant tech companies, creators’ rights and income streams will be drastically reduced unless policymakers step in.
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A photo sharing startup founded by an ex-Google engineer found a clever way to turn Google’s tech against itself.
This website shows how much Google's AI can glean from your photos:
This website shows how much Google's AI can glean from your photos:
This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos
A photo sharing startup founded by an ex-Google engineer found a clever way to turn Google’s tech against itself.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:01 PM
A photo sharing startup founded by an ex-Google engineer found a clever way to turn Google’s tech against itself.
This website shows how much Google's AI can glean from your photos:
This website shows how much Google's AI can glean from your photos:
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“It’s too late to save, but we might repurpose. Suturing, jerry-rigging, cobbling together. Finding unexpected resources in the muck, using them in new ways. A strategy for ruination.” This China Miéville interview is one of the best on our moment www.bostonreview.net/articles/lit...
A Strategy for Ruination - Boston Review
An interview with China Miéville
www.bostonreview.net
November 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM
“It’s too late to save, but we might repurpose. Suturing, jerry-rigging, cobbling together. Finding unexpected resources in the muck, using them in new ways. A strategy for ruination.” This China Miéville interview is one of the best on our moment www.bostonreview.net/articles/lit...
An AI right to repair could give a user the ability to run diagnostics on an AI, report any anomalies, and see when they are fixed by the company. Ethical hackers could create patches or fixes for problems that anyone can access.
We Need a New Right to Repair for Artificial Intelligence
A growing movement to allow access to algorithmic workings won’t stop the ubiquitous spread of artificial intelligence, but it could restore public confidence in it.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:03 PM
An AI right to repair could give a user the ability to run diagnostics on an AI, report any anomalies, and see when they are fixed by the company. Ethical hackers could create patches or fixes for problems that anyone can access.
In cases where some humans might face off militarily or diplomatically against a highly AI-enabled state, or against AI itself, humans could struggle to survive, much less compete.
War and Peace in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
What it will mean for the world when machines shape strategy and statecraft.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:32 PM
In cases where some humans might face off militarily or diplomatically against a highly AI-enabled state, or against AI itself, humans could struggle to survive, much less compete.
This is an excellent and highly accessible volume. I had the pleasure of meeting the author earlier this year at an AI event in Bangalore organised by Alliance University. For it I curated an exhibition of AI art installations which engaged with questions of living and creating with AI.
November 22, 2024 at 3:03 PM
This is an excellent and highly accessible volume. I had the pleasure of meeting the author earlier this year at an AI event in Bangalore organised by Alliance University. For it I curated an exhibition of AI art installations which engaged with questions of living and creating with AI.
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What are the key differences between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and other top AI tools? Which one is best?
Our AI expert @thiccreese.bsky.social answers your questions:
Our AI expert @thiccreese.bsky.social answers your questions:
How Best to Use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Other AI Tools? Our AI Expert Answers Your Questions
If you missed our live subscriber-only Q&A with WIRED's AI columnist Reece Rogers, you can watch this replay of the livestream.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:41 PM
What are the key differences between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and other top AI tools? Which one is best?
Our AI expert @thiccreese.bsky.social answers your questions:
Our AI expert @thiccreese.bsky.social answers your questions:
Michiel Baas here. Anthropologist, Writer and Traveler. I’ll be posting about AI, literature and our (speculative) future.
November 22, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Michiel Baas here. Anthropologist, Writer and Traveler. I’ll be posting about AI, literature and our (speculative) future.