We have a great #longread for you all this week, on a seemingly simple but extraordinarily rich question: what is #AI?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/10/1094475/what-is-artificial-intelligence-ai-definitive-guide/

Attn writers: MIT Technology Review is seeking pitches for an upcoming issue of the magazine. The theme is 🔭🔬Breakthroughs🧪🧬. See this LinkedIn post for more https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rcourtland_writingopportunity-activity-7216137356309848065-Su8d

You may have seen the headlines about problematic #superconductivity and #QuantumComputing papers. Last week, science writer Sophia Chen traveled to Pittsburgh to watch the condensed matter physics community try to get a handle on the systemic issues behind such retractions.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/15/1092535/a-wave-of-retractions-is-shaking-physics/

@jmsdnns Fair! Maybe we'll need a new name.

Adult learners of #cello - does it always feel like you're on the verge of tendinitis. I can't tell if I'm doing something wrong or am just old.

At least half a dozen companies in China are now making deepfakes of dead loved ones.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/07/1092116/deepfakes-dead-chinese-business-grief/

Ok so - LinkedIn, Threads, and Mastodon. I think that's my non-local social media list (Facebook and Reddit for neighborhood/community stuff).

Can't believe it's been almost 12 years since the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced. @dangaristo has a great update on where the hunt for new particles stands now

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/20/1088002/higgs-boson-physics-particle-collider-large-hadron-collider/

Can AI learn the way a baby does, with messy, limited data sets? A model trained on footage collected by this cutie suggests it can at least do some rudimentary matching of objects with the words we use for them. More-complex language acquisition is another matter.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/01/1087527/baby-ai-language-camera/

China has been trying to navigate significant restrictions on chip-making technology. Building "chiplets" could offer the country a way forward, @zeyi reports

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/06/1087804/china-betting-on-chiplets-packaging/

Injecting particles into the stratosphere to cool the planet might sound like science fiction. But two leading experts note it's actually feasible to get started in just five years, making the need to set guardrails that much more urgent.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/05/1087587/solar-geoengineering-could-start-soon-if-it-starts-small/

We're all grappling with the uncomfortable fact that we can't have more green energy without more mining. In a big feature out this week, @jtemple writes about how this is playing out at the local level

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/23/1086458/critical-minerals-nickel-inflation-reduction-act-environmental-dangers/

I know nothing about the Oscars and its process, but why is Barbie up for *adapted* screenplay?

The #AppleVisionPro could be the first in a wave of headsets with displays containing mindbogglingly small pixels. See this story from @mattontech for more:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/20/1084518/micro-leds-micro-oleds-augmented-reality-ar/

@Pneumofoils This is something we'd ask a journalist to report on. If you have journal papers to point to, lmk.

There's a NASA news conference today at 1:30 pm ET on the Artemis program. Rumor is that there will be a significant delay announced for Artemis 2, the first crewed mission of the program. The mission is currently scheduled for November 2024.

#space #nasa

@ben Mine too. It is so delightfully accessible.

@Pneumofoils Hi - aviation for sure! But I'm looking for journalists to cover news.

A great video unpacking the recent #Tetris news, which comes down in part to advances in physical gameplay and in part to understanding the underlying code (and how and when it breaks).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU

@justabaldguy If only they were in the same episode! Is there a "six degrees of #Columbo" thing I'm not aware of?