HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use
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Several companies are selling crypto stockpiles in effort to fund share buybacks, shore up stock prices.... Read more » - UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push
Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware... Read more » - Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
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The Download: the mysteries surrounding weight-loss drugs, and the economic effects of AI
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- The Download: the fossil fuel elephant in the room, and better tests for endometriosis
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- This year’s UN climate talks avoided fossil fuels, againIf we didn’t have pictures and videos, I almost wouldn’t believe the imagery that came out of this year’s UN climate talks.... Read more »
Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years agoScientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up Australia....- Why Google’s custom AI chips are shaking up the tech industryGoogle is reportedly in talks to sell its tensor processing units – a type of computer chip specially designed for AI –...
- Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may be behind tooth lossDental problems often arise or get worse during pregnancy, and a new study hints that rapid changes to the oral microbiome at...
- Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorbLogging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink...
- Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or yearsInspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no...
- Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: We (mostly) loved itNew Scientist Book Club members share their thoughts on our November read, Grace Chan's Every Version of You...
- Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. BanksThe New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Iain M. Banks's classic sci-fi novel The Player of Games. In this extract, we...
- Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builderThe New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science fiction...
- Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universeStars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have spotted...
- Origin story of domestic cats rewritten by genetic analysisDomestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in China...
- Physicists have worked out a universal law for how objects shatterWhether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of...
- Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn expertsScientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be heading...
- Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus Valley CivilisationHotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early civilisations,...