Wrangling with Explosive AI Growth – Combatting Catastrophism

For the first time, astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby star. Such planets have long been considered the best places in the galaxy to look for signs of alien life. But so far, “the planets looked like bare rocks,” says astronomer Laura Kreidberg of…

Quantinuum researchers have demonstrated a technique for fault-tolerant quantum computing that could reduce reliance on magic state distillation, one of the most resource-intensive techniques used in many quantum computing architectures. The researchers achieved this by demonstrating a universal set of quantum gates using non-Abelian anyons, a type of quasiparticle that could enable a topological approach…

DETROIT – The worlds of innovative technology and golf came together today at the youth golf and tech expo — a partnership of the Rocket Classic, Midnight Golf, and Black Tech Saturdays. Along with seminars and robotics demonstrations, the group of more than 100 Detroit kids got a chance to work with PGA pros on…

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In 1993, a team led by the planetary scientist Carl Sagan tentatively concluded that there is life on Earth. Not much of a deduction, you might think — except that the researchers confined their evidence to observations made by the Galileo spacecraft, which had flown past our planet three years earlier on a looping journey…

The U.S. Space Force is adding three dozen spacecraft to its growing constellation designed to detect and track incoming missiles from orbit. The Space Development Agency (SDA) announced the agreements, worth a combined $1.75 billion, on July 14, naming L3Harris Technologies and Sierra Space as the recipients. Each company will provide 18 Accelerated Missile Defense…