{"id":3922,"date":"2022-11-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/singularityumexicosummit.com\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2022-11-29T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:00:00","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-september-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singularityumexico.com\/en\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-september-24\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROBOTICS<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

These Autonomous, Wireless Robots Could Dance on a Human Hair<\/a><\/strong>
Devin Coldewey | TechCrunch
<\/em>\u201cThe competition to create ever smaller, ever better robots is a fierce one, and Cornell University is out front now with a set of bots small enough to sit on a human hair but that can move on their own using nothing but light as a power source.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DeepMind\u2019s New Chatbot Uses Google Searches Plus Humans to Give Better Answers<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>
Melissa Heikkil\u00e4 | MIT Technology Review
<\/em>\u201cThe trick to making a good AI-powered chatbot might be to have humans tell it how to behave\u2014and force the model to back up its claims using the internet, according to a new paper by Alphabet-owned AI lab DeepMind. In a new non-peer-reviewed paper out today, the team unveils Sparrow, an AI chatbot that is trained on DeepMind\u2019s large language model Chinchilla. \u2026The model managed plausible answers to factual questions\u2014using evidence that had also been retrieved from the internet\u201478% of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GENE EDITING<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s New Proof CRISPR Can Edit Genes Inside Human Bodies<\/a><\/strong>
Emily Mullin | Wired
<\/em>\u201cLast year, Intellia Therapeutics was the first to demonstrate that this was possible for a disease called transthyretin amyloidosis. And last week, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech company showed in-the-body editing in a second disease. \u2026The diseases involve two different genes, and in both cases Crispr was able to safely and successfully edit them. \u2018This shows us that we can have exactly the same kind of results in a totally different gene,\u2019 says John Leonard, Intellia\u2019s CEO.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPACE<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

NASA\u2019s DART Mission Aims to Save the World<\/a><\/strong>
Ned Potter | IEEE Spectrum
<\/em>\u201cOn Monday at 7:14 p.m. EDT, if all goes well, the little spacecraft will crash into an asteroid called Dimorphos, about 11 million kilometers from Earth. \u2026Mission managers hope the spacecraft\u2026will nudge the asteroid slightly in its orbit, just enough to prove that it\u2019s technologically possible in case a future asteroid has Earth in its crosshairs. \u2026\u2019We are moving an asteroid,\u2019 said Statler. \u2018We are changing the motion of a natural celestial body in space. Humanity\u2019s never done that before.\u2019i\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIOTECH<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

How We\u2019ll Transplant Tiny Organ-Like Blobs of Cells Into People<\/a><\/strong>
Jessica Hamzelou | MIT Technology Review
<\/em>\u201cTo the naked eye, organoids aren\u2019t much to look at. They\u2019re basically tiny blobs. Closer inspection reveals their true complexity: these lab-grown balls of cells can resemble miniature organs. So far, organoids have mostly been used for research. But teams have started transplanting them into animals with the hope of curing disease. Humans are next\u2014albeit some way off. Let\u2019s say in 10 years \u2026 maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CULTURE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An End to Doomerism<\/a><\/strong>
Hannah Ritchie | Big Think
<\/em>\u201cThe issue is that people mistake optimism for \u2018blind optimism\u2019\u2014the blinkered faith that things will always get better. Problems will fix themselves. If we just hope things turn out well, they will. Blind optimism really is dumb. And it\u2019s not just stupid, it\u2019s dangerous. If we sit back and do nothing, we will not make progress. That\u2019s not the kind of optimism that I\u2019m talking about. Optimism is seeing problems as challenges that are solvable; it\u2019s having the confidence that there are things that we can do to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENERGY<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Wild Plan to Export Sun From the Sahara to the UK<\/a><\/strong>
Charlie Metcalfe | Wired
<\/em>\u201cThe new XLCC factory, to be built at Hunterston in 2023, will not generate electricity. Instead, the site\u2019s 900 workers plan to create four high-voltage, direct current (HVDC) electricity cables that will stretch 3,800 km from Britain\u2019s south coast, beneath the sea, to a patch of desert at \u200b\u200bGuelmim Oued Noun in central Morocco. From there, they\u2019ll provide enough energy to power 7 million British homes and 8 percent of the UK\u2019s total electricity requirement with 10.5 gigawatts of Saharan sun and wind by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FUTURE<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Is the Hyperloop Doomed?<\/a><\/strong>
Eric A. Taub | The New York Times
<\/em>\u201cThough some efforts continue, the once-promising technology has run up against significant challenges\u2014most notably creating an entirely new transit infrastructure. \u2026That means constructing miles-long systems of tubes and stations, acquiring rights of way, adhering to government regulations and standards, and avoiding changes to the ecology along its routes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FUTURE OF WORK<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The World\u2019s Largest Four-Day Work Week Experiment Shows Success<\/a><\/strong>
Kevin Hurler | Gizmodo
<\/em>\u201cThe workplace experiment in the United Kingdom has reached its halfway point after three months and some of the firms even plan on making the change permanent. \u2026Results also include 86% of survey respondents indicating that they would be likely or extremely likely to retain the four-day work week, while a total of 46% of respondents reported some increase in productivity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 24)<\/a><\/blockquote>