scientific.america.technology
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If AI Starts Making Music on Its Own, What Happens to Musicians?
by Allison Parshall on March 27, 2023 at 10:00 am
Music made with artificial intelligence could upend the music industry. Here’s what that might look like.
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Music-Making Artificial Intelligence Is Getting Scary Good
by Allison Parshall on March 24, 2023 at 10:00 am
Google’s new AI model can generate entirely new music from text prompts. Here’s what they sound like.
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Artificial Intelligence Helped Make the Coolest Song You've Heard This Week
by Allison Parshall on March 22, 2023 at 10:00 am
Machine-learning algorithms are getting so good that they can translate Western instruments into Thai ones with ease.
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Space Force Humor, Laser Dazzlers, and the Havoc a War in Space Would Actually Wreak
by Lee Billings, Clara Moskowitz, Jeffery DelViscio on March 20, 2023 at 10:00 am
In the inaugural episode of Cosmos, Quickly, we blast off with Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno of the Space Force, who is charged with protecting our space in space, […]
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What High-Tech Prizes Does the Downed U.S. Drone Hold? Russia Really Wants to Know
by Jason Sherman on March 17, 2023 at 11:35 pm
An MQ-9 Reaper drone is sitting at the bottom of the Black Sea. Will the U.S. or Russia recover it?
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Nord Stream Pipeline Blasts Stirred Up Toxic Sediment
by Katharine Sanderson, Nature magazine on March 17, 2023 at 3:30 pm
The Nord Stream pipeline explosions happened in a dumping ground for chemical warfare, but other contaminants proved most toxic to marine life
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AI Can Re-create What You See from a Brain Scan
by Allison Parshall on March 17, 2023 at 2:30 pm
Image-generating AI is getting better at re-creating what people are looking at from their fMRI data. But this isn’t mind reading—yet
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Squeak Squeak, Buzz Buzz: How Researchers Are Using AI to Talk to Animals
by Sophie Bushwick, Kelso Harper on March 17, 2023 at 10:00 am
The burgeoning field of “digital bioacoustics” is helping us understand animals like never before.
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What the New GPT-4 AI Can Do
by Sophie Bushwick on March 16, 2023 at 1:40 pm
OpenAI just released an updated version of its text-generating artificial intelligence program. Here’s how GPT-4 improves on its predecessor
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What the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Means for Science Start-ups
by Katharine Sanderson, Nature magazine on March 16, 2023 at 12:30 pm
Bailouts mean customers’ deposits are safe, but the Silicon Valley Bank’s demise has sparked concern about future investment in small tech companies
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Quantum Computing Is the Future, and Schools Need to Catch Up
by Olivia Lanes on March 15, 2023 at 2:00 pm
Top universities are finally bringing the excitement of the quantum future into the classroom
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AI's Victories in Go Inspire Better Human Game Playing
by Emily Willingham on March 13, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Famed AI wins in Go let human players rethink their moves in a whole new way
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Controversy Surrounds Blockbuster Superconductivity Claim
by Sophie Bushwick on March 10, 2023 at 11:50 pm
Will a possible breakthrough for room-temperature superconducting materials hold up to scrutiny?
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NASA's Latest Asteroid Explorer Celebrates Our Ancient Origins in Space and on Earth
by Phil Plait on March 8, 2023 at 3:00 pm
The Lucy spacecraft and its target asteroids show that the way that we name discoveries matters
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Nuclear Waste Is Piling Up. Does the U.S. Have a Plan?
by Allison Macfarlane, Rodney C. Ewing on March 6, 2023 at 2:45 pm
We needs a permanent national nuclear waste disposal site now, before the spent nuclear fuel stored in 35 states becomes unsafe
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Spotlight on Women in Science
by Scientific American on March 6, 2023 at 2:00 pm
Honoring women at the forefront of science
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These Researchers Used AI to Design a Completely New 'Animal Robot'
by Luke Groskin on March 6, 2023 at 2:00 pm
“Xenobots” are living, swimming self-powered robots that measure less than a millimeter across. They are evolved by artificial intelligence and built […]
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What Can We Do to Make Sure the FAA and Southwest Airlines Fiascoes Never Happen Again?
by Laurie Garrow on March 2, 2023 at 8:00 pm
Congress and the airline industry must reassess how they approach and fund air transportation modernization
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Why Is It So Hard to Make Vegan Fish?
by Joanna Thompson on February 28, 2023 at 12:00 pm
Futuristic food science technology could finally bring plant-based salmon filets and tuna steaks to the table
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New Color-Changing Coating Could Both Heat and Cool Buildings
by Allison Parshall on February 27, 2023 at 11:45 am
A thin film can switch from releasing heat to trapping it, and wrapping the coating around buildings could make them more energy-efficient
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Sorry, UFO Hunters--You Might Just Be Looking at a Spy Balloon
by Sophie Bushwick, Tulika Bose on February 24, 2023 at 11:00 am
From space aliens to foreign surveillance, we spoke to experts to find out what’s really going on with the balloon brouhaha.
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AI Outraces Human Champs at the Video Game Gran Turismo
by Sophie Bushwick on February 23, 2023 at 2:00 pm
The program also challenges certain assumptions about self-driving cars
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Google's Quantum Computer Hits Key Milestone by Reducing Errors
by Davide Castelvecchi, Nature on February 23, 2023 at 1:30 pm
Researchers demonstrate for the first time that using more qubits can lower the error rate of quantum calculations
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Soft Robots Take Steps toward Independence
by Nora Bradford on February 23, 2023 at 12:30 pm
Squishy robots can now heal themselves and grow as they explore
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Why Google's Supreme Court Case Could Rattle the Internet
by Meghan Bartels on February 22, 2023 at 4:15 pm
Gonzalez v. Google seeks to hold tech giants accountable for recommendation algorithms in a complicated case that could see the Supreme Court meddle in more […]