Collaborate Disseminate
Pianos can become the heart of a home, and some become intergenerational heirlooms loaded with memories. Letting them go once they’re unplayable can be very hard, but an Australian sculptor has found a way to resurrect them, to jaw-dropping effect.Cont… Continue reading Beloved family pianos are reborn as stunning phoenix sculptures
Google DeepMind says it’s created a “multi-world” AI agent that can follow your natural-language instructions to perform a range of tasks for you in a variety of 3D virtual environments. That is, it’ll do the grindy bits of video games for you.Continue… Continue reading DeepMind’s latest AI is designed to… Play video games for you?
ANYmal is a truly remarkable robot, capable of standing and lifting things like a humanoid, or slinking around on all fours like a quadruped, with or without wheels. But what’s really surprised us now is the eerie grace it’s starting to move with.Conti… Continue reading Video: Shape-shifting ANYmal is starting to climb with cat-like grace
It can autonomously plan and execute thousand-step tasks. It can build and deploy entire software projects all by itself. It can research and fix bugs 7x better than OpenAI’s GPT-4, and it trains and deploys its own custom AIs to solve problems.Continu… Continue reading Next-gen AI software developer spawns and trains its own AIs
There are plenty of people who think this whole AI revolution thing isn’t what it’s cracked up to be, that it’s a storm in a teacup and another in a long list of technologies that won’t deliver on the hype. Indeed, there’s one in our team here at New A… Continue reading Post-labor economics: Will capitalism work when the robots take over?
Sweden’s CorPower has announced “breakthrough” results from Atlantic ocean testing of its full-scale floating generators, which cleverly time their motions to amplify smaller waves while protecting themselves against dangerous storm conditions.Continue… Continue reading Video: Wave-amplifying generator bounces twice as high as the swells
Nobody wants to put their package in a grubby, sticky box that’s clearly been recently used – but many an excellent box is made unappealing by an untidy exterior. That’s where Box Refresh – the worst-named product of 2024 – hopes to make a difference.C… Continue reading Roll-on “Box Refresh” is a better idea than it sounds
Working on these next-gen intelligent AIs must be a freaky experience. As Anthropic announces the smartest model ever tested across a range of benchmarks, researchers recall a chilling moment when Claude 3 realized that it was being evaluated.Continue … Continue reading Smarter than GPT-4: Claude 3 AI catches researchers testing it
Universal Hydrogen is already flying the world’s largest hydrogen airliner – and now the company has started testing swappable liquid hydrogen fuel modules that’ll radically boost the range of clean passenger aircraft operations slated for 2026.
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Continue reading Video: Megawatt-scale liquid H2 airliner powertrain comes to life
After making its first manned eVTOL flight last June, Florida’s Doroni Aerospace has announced its next model. The H1X rocks coaxial ducted fans and pusher props, and targets 120 mph (200 km/h) cruise speeds for up to 40 minutes.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Doroni announces fan-in-wing, cruise-capable buy ‘n’ fly eVTOL