The Download: Amazon’s quantum chip, and preventing battery fires
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How a volcanic eruption turned a human brain into glass
They look like small pieces of obsidian, smooth and shiny. But a set of small…
OpenAI just released GPT-4.5 and says it is its biggest and best chat model yet
OpenAI has just released GPT-4.5, a new version of its flagship large language model. The…
An AI companion site is hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots
Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital…
An ancient man’s remains were hacked apart and kept in a garage
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The Download: Introducing the Relationships issue
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The best time to stop a battery fire? Before it starts.
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Amazon’s first quantum computing chip makes its debut
Amazon Web Services today announced Ocelot, its first-generation quantum computing chip. While the chip has…
Studying the uninvited guests
Microbes that gobble up or break down environmental toxins can clean up oil spills, waste…
The poetry of data
Jane Muschenetz’s poems don’t look like the sonnets you remember studying in high school English.…