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“Surpassing the Evolutionary Boundaries of Biological Photoreception”: Scientists Invent Eyeglasses That Let Wearers See the Infrared in Full Color

1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (312+ words) Scientists from the Beijing Institute of Technology have revealed a colloidal quantum dot (CQD)-based infrared-to-visible upconverter that transforms the infrared spectrum into full color, allowing people to ‘see’ the infrared in the visible light spectrum. Attempts to Convert Infrared…...

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Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses

17+ hour, 58+ min ago   (272+ words) Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully functional and can replicate in the laboratory, say US researchers. It is the first time whole genomes have been successfully designed by AI. The resulting 16 novel viruses…...

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This is the real AI divide

18+ hour, 16+ min ago   (375+ words) Last month, a Chinese artificial intelligence lab, Moonshot AI, released a model that stunned the industry. It tested at near-frontier performance while costing much less than leading American systems to use. And the lab promised to release an open-weight version…...

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Google’s Jeff Dean — Shief Scientist for 27 Years — Leaving dDuring AI Leadership Overhaul for Startup

20+ hour, 39+ min ago   (257+ words) Google on Wednesday revealed an overhaul of its AI leadership, as its chief scientist for nearly three decades exits – the latest in a string of high-profile departures to plague the tech giant in its struggle to pull ahead in the…...

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Elon & Jensen Just Teamed Up: SpaceX Is Now THE Company ⚡️

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (444+ words) Going to give IBM some competition in cloud services. Bring back DEC VAX/VMS! FTA “’Star Mind’ AI satellites, which will be deployed both in orbit and in terrestrial data centers” Read that again, that could be a script line…...

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Flock cameras are everywhere. Here's how they track cars.

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (108+ words) Flock cameras are in thousands of communities across the country and often hide in plain sight. A Flock camera is an automated license plate reader, or ALPR, made by the public-safety technology company Flock Safety. The cameras are commonly installed…...

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Strange quantum experiment shows “negative time” is more than an illusion

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (118+ words) Photons traveling through a cloud of atoms can emerge so early that they appear to have spent a negative amount of time inside. Researchers tested whether this was merely a misleading feature of the light pulse by making extremely weak…...

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Today's Cryptogram

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (42+ words) AEXERA JNRFZ SRW MNIFT CN ANXFTRJFRC EG UEDF AEXERA IPEGDFZ SRW VST DFZG CN CFFRSAF QNZG. ― M.Y. N'TNHTDF Clue: Look in the comments 🔗 HAL’S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER Clue: E = M Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor…...

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The future of human social interactions

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (65+ words) If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today: Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you, Not AI slop. Real…...

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Katherine Boyle just named Elon Musk's greatest contribution to America, and it isn't sitting on a launchpad

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (472+ words) Boyle, General Partner at a16z: "I think that Elon's most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers … on how to work with their hands again." For a decade, America's sharpest technical minds optimized ad clicks and shipped…...