This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 24)

ROBOTICS These Autonomous, Wireless Robots Could Dance on a Human HairDevin Coldewey | TechCrunch“The competition [...]

Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Recycle Plastic Waste Into Valuable Chemicals

Plastic waste is clogging up our rivers and oceans and causing long-lasting environmental damage that [...]

This Exoskeleton Uses AI to Help People Walk Faster With Less Energy

Exoskeletons have been largely confined to the realm of fiction, appearing in sci-fi or superhero [...]

800,000 Neurons in a Dish Learned to Play Pong in Just Five Minutes

Scientists just taught hundreds of thousands of neurons in a dish to play Pong. Using [...]

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 6)

NEUROSCIENCE The Age of Brain-Computer Interfaces Is on the HorizonGrace Brown | Wired“The real novelty [...]

There Are Cheaper, More Sustainable Ways Than Desalination to Meet Our Water Needs

Coastal urban centers around the world are urgently looking for new, sustainable water sources as [...]

The Tech That Will Push VR to the Limits of the Human Eye

Big tech is eager to get us excited about the coming of the metaverse, but today’s virtual [...]

A Massive Carbon Capture Plant in Wyoming Will Pull 5 Million Tons of CO2 From the Air Each Year

Though it’s still a controversial technology, direct air capture—also called carbon capture—is gaining traction. In the [...]

OpenAI Says DALL-E Is Generating Over 2 Million Images a Day—and That’s Just Table Stakes

The venerable stock image site, Getty, boasts a catalog of 80 million images. Shutterstock, a rival [...]

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 30)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DeepMind Has Predicted the Structure of Almost Every Protein Known to ScienceMelissa Heikkilä [...]