China launches Shenzhou-16 mission to Chinese space station
China sent three astronauts to its now fully operational space station as part of crew rotation on Tuesday in the fifth manned mission to the Chinese space outpost since 2021,...
China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030, another step in what looks like a new space race
China plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, which would be another advance in what’s increasingly seen as a new space race. The US aims to put astronauts...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope, observatory release space images
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope have joined forces to produce stunning composite images of the cosmos. The space agency recently released images that combine X-ray data with infrared...
Chinese influencer dies after binge drinking on livestream
A Chinese content creator died last week after livestreaming himself consuming an excessive amount of exceptionally strong alcohol. The 34-year-old influencer, who goes by “Sanqiange,” was found dead 12 hours...
Foundation models for reasoning on charts
Posted by Julian Eisenschlos, Research Software Engineer, Google Research Visual language is the form of communication that relies on pictorial symbols outside of text to convey information. It is ubiquitous...
FDA approves Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants for humans test
Elon Musk cheered the FDA’s approval for brain-implant company Neuralink to start testing the tech on humans, but some were not keen on being part of the clinical study, calling...
Barkour: Benchmarking animal-level agility with quadruped robots
Posted by Ken Caluwaerts and Atil Iscen, Research Scientists, Google Creating robots that exhibit robust and dynamic locomotion capabilities, similar to animals or humans, has been a long-standing goal in...
eBay founder Pierre Omidyar gives nearly $2M to defund police
The billionaire founder of e-commerce site eBay plowed money into a private security startup billed as the “Uber for bodyguards” — while also donating nearly $2 million to groups that...
Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How
I agree with every single one of those points, which can potentially guide us on the actual boundaries we might consider to mitigate the dark side of AI. Things like...
Celebrating the impact of IDSS
The “interdisciplinary approach” is something that has been lauded for decades for its ability to break down silos and create new integrated approaches to research. For Munther Dahleh, founding director...
Where Memory Ends and Generative AI Begins
In theory, these cryptographic standards ensure that if a professional photographer snaps a photo for, say, Reuters and that photo is distributed across Reuters international news channels, both the editors commissioning...
Virgin Galactic completes final test flight before launching paying customers to space
Virgin Galactic completed what is expected to be its final test flight Thursday before taking paying customers on brief trips to space, marking what the space tourism company described as...
Linda Yaccarino pushed NBCUniversal to buy Twitter years ago: sources
Elon Musk’s hire of Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s new CEO came after a whirlwind courtship — but the ad guru has had her sights on the struggling social network for...
Differentially private clustering for large-scale datasets
Posted by Vincent Cohen-Addad and Alessandro Epasto, Research Scientists, Google Research, Graph Mining team Clustering is a central problem in unsupervised machine learning (ML) with many applications across domains in...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink gets FDA approval for human test of brain implants
Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said it had received Food and Drug Administration’s approval to launch the first-in-human clinical study. Several times since 2019, billionaire Elon Musk has predicted his...
