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Big Blue wins the most US patents for the year -- 8,088 -- but Intel and Amazon surge ahead, too.

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman have backed a new $27 million fund that aims to promote research into artificial intelligence in the public interest. The new fund is being called the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund, and aims to support a “cross-section of AI ethics and governance projects and activities."

#ethics and governance of ai fund

Experts warn that a potential IVF breakthrough could have unintended social consequences.

Two research groups have developed poker-playing AI programs that show how computers can out-hustle the best humans.

Will you ever be able to meet your twin self in another universe?

#string theory

With a budget of about $296 million last year, DARPA's Biological Technologies Office (BTO) is making strides in areas like cognitive assistance, immunization, and neurotechnology. These breakthroughs will not only strengthen the country's military, they will also impact the lives of civilians, just like previous DARPA-backed creations the internet and GPS have.

#neuroscience

"When the man who’s going to lead this country claims climate change is a hoax, we need people willing to stand up for the facts."

Through its "The Jetsons" campaign, engineering firm Arconic is sharing its vision for the year 2062, a time when they predict we'll have three-mile-high, self-cleaning skyscrapers. While the ideas they present would be extremely difficult to enact, thinking in terms of what may be possible is the first step to game-changing innovation.

#skyscraper

Herzog and De Meuron's new philharmonic in Hamburg, Germany is an impressive feat of technology.

#architecture

314 Action is concerned that STEM education in the United States is falling further and further behind the rest of the world, that our political leaders continue to deny scientific facts and that Congress fails to fully fund scientific research so we can solve pressing environmental issues like climate change and social problems like gun violence.

314 Action is a nonprofit that was founded by members of the STEM community, grassroots supporters and political activists

Finland is trialling an unconditional income scheme, and studies show its benefits. I’d bet my own income that the idea would work here in the UK

#welfare #politics #benefits #society #uk news

Researchers have isolated the brain circuitry that coordinates predatory hunting, according to a new study. One set of neurons in the amygdala, the brain's center of emotion and motivation, cues the animal to pursue prey. Another set signals the animal to use its jaw and neck muscles to bite and kill.

Researchers have created a printer that doesn’t require ink.

The training ammo would naturally degrade, spreading plants that clean up the environment.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated the world's first laser based on an unconventional wave physics phenomenon called bound states in the continuum. The technology could revolutionize the development of surface lasers, making them more compact and energy-efficient for communications and computing applications. The new BIC lasers could also be developed as high-power lasers for industrial and defense applications.

The CEO of Deutsche Telekom believes a universal basic income would encourage entrepreneurship and self-employment. He argues that current social welfare systems in place are ill equipped to handle the unemployment that automation and digitization could bring about.

#universal basic income

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