Enlarge / Researchers use CyBio FeliX workstations to extract and purify DNA samples for testing reader comments 45 with At an old biscuit factory in South London, giant mixers and industrial ovens have been replaced by robotic arms, incubators, and DNA sequencing machines. James Field and his company LabGenius aren’t making sweet treats; they’re cooking… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a pixel art hospital with empty windows. Benj Edwards / Midjourney reader comments 83 with Share this story On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced that they are bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI language model into health care for use in drafting message responses from health care workers to patients… Read More »
The AI Revolution: How Chat GPT, Jasper, and Dall-e Are Taking Over the World (But in a Cute and Non-Threatening Way) Are you ready for the AI revolution? No, of course not. But don’t worry, it’s not like they’re going to take over the world… yet. In the meantime, let’s take a look at some… Read More »
reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Today, IBM announced the latest generation of its family of avian-themed quantum processors, the Osprey. With more than three times the qubit count of its previous-generation Eagle processor, Osprey is the first to offer more than 400 qubits, which indicates the company remains on track to… Read More »
Enlarge / Is living in a language-rich world enough to teach a child grammatical language? reader comments 15 with 13 posters participating Share this story Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking… Read More »
reader comments 31 with 20 posters participating Share this story Ten years ago, 12-year-old Rory Staunton dove for a ball in gym class and scraped his arm. He woke up the next day with a 104° F fever, so his parents took him to the pediatrician and eventually the emergency room. It was just the… Read More »
We love indie content at Sci-Fi Bloggers. It’s always a good idea to look at what’s being made outside the usual places. So, today, we’ll highlight an old review of ours by Dylan Alexander. And if you want to watch the movie, you can find it at its current home on Roku. Originally Published: November… Read More »
reader comments 59 with 50 posters participating Share this story Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new contractor before she left for the day and needs him to do it. She gives… Read More »
Enlarge / Microsoft says it sees two clear peaks at the ends of a wire, with a nice energy separation between those and any other energy states. reader comments 24 with 18 posters participating Share this story So far, two primary quantum computing technologies have been commercialized. One type of hardware, called a transmon, involves superconducting… Read More »
reader comments 33 with 26 posters participating Share this story All too often, digital ads wind up improperly targeting the most vulnerable people online, including abuse victims and kids. Add to that list the customers of several digital-medicine and genetic-testing companies, whose sites used ad-tracking tools that could have exposed information about people’s health status.… Read More »