In an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Paddy O’Connell, Slavoj Žižek discusses his new book, Signs from the Future, examining Donald Trump’s political legacy, the decline of the liberal international order and the
Paradromics, a Texas-based neurotechnology developer, has received FDA approval to begin the first long-term clinical trial of its brain–computer interface (BCI), targeting individuals who have lost the ability to speak due to
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Nvidia, the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, reported third-quarter revenue of $57 billion, up 62% from a year ago, surpassing analysts’ expectations of $54.9 billion. Net income rose 65% year-on-year to
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Before a car crash in 2008 left Nancy Smith paralysed from the neck down, she found joy in playing the piano. Years later, she returned to music thanks to a brain–computer interface
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Elon Musk is once again pushing the boundaries of technological imagination—this time by projecting that artificial intelligence computation will soon migrate beyond Earth. Speaking alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Saudi officials
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A gleaming nine-story office complex dominating Wadowicka Street in southern Krakow has become an unlikely symbol of Poland’s shifting economic fortunes. The expansive glass structure—its floors covering the space of more than
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President Vladimir Putin inspected a dancing humanoid robot during a technology exhibition in Moscow on Wednesday, a demonstration staged by Sberbank and broadcast on state television. The visit, reported alongside broader geopolitical
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture xAI is closing in on a fundraising round of roughly $15bn, a move that would lift the company’s valuation to about $230bn, according to people familiar with
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Scientists have found that humanity’s love of kissing dates back far earlier than previously imagined, possibly originating with our distant ape ancestors 21 million years ago, a new study by the University
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Jenny Button first imagined Emm during the COVID-19 lockdown while using an Oura ring and a Whoop monitoring band. She was gaining insights about her body but realized there was a glaring
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The newly released Anthropic investigation reveals that a state-sponsored threat group has carried out the first largely autonomous cyber-espionage campaign, using an AI system to execute nearly all stages of the attack
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Hong Kong, the capitalist powerhouse often described as the “Mecca of Chinese capitalism,” is moving aggressively to reinvent itself as China’s premier scientific capital. Its skyline of luxury malls, financial towers, and
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A fiber-rich diet may help the immune system mount a stronger attack against cancer by reshaping the gut microbiome and boosting the performance of key tumor-fighting cells, according to new research highlighted
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Amazon (AMZN.O) plans to raise $15 billion through its first U.S. dollar bond offering in three years, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, as major tech
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Artificial intelligence may be reshaping not just how we solve problems but how we evaluate our own abilities — and not necessarily for the better. A new multinational study led by Finland’s
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OpenAI has developed an experimental large language model designed to be far easier to understand than conventional AI systems, MIT Technology Review reports. Unlike today’s powerful but opaque models, which operate as
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