What is screen time doing to children? Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media. (www.economist.com)
What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part) (www.theatlantic.com)
Population tipping point could arrive by 2030: global fertility will drop below replacement level years earlier than expected. (www.science.org)
‘Sexting’ with robots: How artificial intelligence will be able to ‘read’ our arousal (english.elpais.com)
NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth (blogs.nasa.gov)
What is screen time doing to children? Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media. (www.economist.com)
UK: Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones (www.bbc.com)
Tesla pushes for $56bn pay deal for Elon Musk (www.bbc.com)
Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply (arstechnica.com)
AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report (www.nature.com)
Tesla lays off more than 10% of its workforce (www.bbc.com)
Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy (www.theregister.com)
Figure 01, the robot closest to the humanoid machines of science fiction (english.elpais.com)
Where there's a will, there's Huawei to develop one's own chipmaking kit (www.theregister.com)
Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility (www.theatlantic.com)
America Is Sick of Swiping (www.theatlantic.com)
Using your phone to pay is convenient, but it can also mean you spend more (www.npr.org)
What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part) (www.theatlantic.com)
AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey (www.theregister.com)
Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)
Why loneliness is bad for your health (www.nature.com)
Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first (www.theregister.com)
AI Has Lost Its Magic (www.theatlantic.com)
Tropical-forest destruction has slowed — but is still too high (www.nature.com)
‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets (www.theguardian.com)
Population tipping point could arrive by 2030: global fertility will drop below replacement level years earlier than expected. (www.science.org)
‘Sexting’ with robots: How artificial intelligence will be able to ‘read’ our arousal (english.elpais.com)
Botswana threatens to deport 20,000 elephants to Germany (www.politico.eu)