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A new analysis from FutureSearch's wealth study of AI billionaires counts 57 AI billionaires worldwide, worth a combined $320 billion -- and almost none of that fortune has anything to do with a PhD. Chip designer Chen Tianshi of Cambricon ...

"Weird Al" Yankovic pulled out of his participation in a commercial for a business software company when he found out it is an artificial intelligence company. In Syracuse, NY for his "Bigger and Weirder" tour, he told Geoff Herbert of Syracuse.com -

Mirror life -- synthetic organisms built from molecules with reversed chirality, the opposite handedness of every natural protein and DNA strand on Earth -- would be essentially invisible to the immune systems of humans, animals, and plants,

What does a city sound like when you turn its transit system into a musical instrument? This clever web project answers that question by transforming the live movements of Los Angeles Metro trains and buses into an evolving ambient soundtrack. Every ...

Time and time again, I count myself lucky that The Good Liars are willing to wade into the backwoods of MAGA country so I don't have to. They've made an extremely stable career out of showing up at Trump-centric events and documenting them in their ...

Escherllate is a fun browser sketchbook built around tessellation. You draw on a central tile, and your lines instantly repeat across surrounding copies. The result is a living pattern that updates in real time as you sketch. The system makes ...

AI is coming for all our jobs, it seems, even those of phone scammers. What is the world coming to when we can't even get swindled by good, honest (well, not really) humans anymore? The advent of AI has massively improved the scalability of these ...

Andrew Judson has read every Caldecott Medal winner and honor book his local library owns, mostly out loud to his daughter, and ranked the worst ones by their words, not their art -- since the Caldecott is awarded "based solely on the art," even the ...

A newly described spider in North Queensland rainforest hunts exactly one prey species -- the green tree ant, an insect so aggressive most predators avoid it -- by building a silk trap that flings the ant into its web. Macquarie University ...

A synthetic cell built from scratch -- no living components, just liposomes, DNA, and 36 commercial enzymes standing in for protein synthesis -- grew, copied its own DNA, and split into two, according to Quanta's report on this synthetic-cell ...