29th March 2023

Should AI be stopped? Experts call for "immediate pause" to research

More than 1,200 scientists and technology leaders have published an open letter calling for research on AI models bigger than GPT-4 to be halted, amid concerns over unknown impacts and risks to society.

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25th March 2023

Gordon Moore (1929-2023) – an obituary

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and the man responsible for "Moore's Law", has died at the age of 94.

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23rd March 2023

RNA component found in asteroid sample

Analysis of samples from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu has revealed nitrogenous organic compounds, which are important in the development of life.

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22nd March 2023

New card from Nvidia will accelerate AI

U.S. chip giant Nvidia has launched the H100 NVL, a next-generation hardware accelerator for large language models.

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20th March 2023

A busy week in AI

Last week saw a plethora of new advances in AI, including the much-anticipated release of GPT-4.

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13th March 2023

Huge new oil project approved in Alaska

In a major setback for the environment, Joe Biden today approved the controversial Willow Project. This has the potential to erase all of his planned emission reductions from renewables between now and 2030.

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9th March 2023

Google's PaLM-E – a step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI)?

AI researchers at Google have revealed PaLM-E, an embodied multimodal language model with 562 billion parameters.

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6th March 2023

Channelling of ions can boost solar cell efficiency

The channelling of ions into defined pathways in perovskite materials is shown to improve the stability and operational performance of perovskite solar cells. A research team claims this could boost their efficiency from 25% to 40%.

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5th March 2023

Supermassive black hole in Milky Way centre will consume large object in 2036

A mysterious object called X7 has evolved dramatically in a relatively short time as it approaches the centre of our galaxy. Astronomers now say it is likely to be a large cloud of dust and gas, created when two stars collided.

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5th March 2023

Global agreement to protect oceans by 2030

UN member states have agreed on a legal framework for the High Seas Treaty, which aims to protect 30% of the world's oceans by 2030.

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2nd March 2023

Newly found cell mechanism involved in aging

A previously unknown cell mechanism involved in the aging process has been discovered, which explains how cells "remember" their identity when they divide – the cells' so-called epigenetic memory.

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