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Elon Musk says 'Tesla Bots' will hopefully be sent to work on Mars in inhospitable environments
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday said he hoped his company's humanoid robots would be mass-produced an…
Kevin Shalvey
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Guess who inspired Raghuram Rajan to become an economist?
"I was reasonably interested in math, and a friend told me about econometrics. I had read Isaac Asi…
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Bill Nye told us which Isaac Asimov book inspired him as a child
Published in 1972, "The Left Hand of the Electron" was Asimov's 9th book. It's a collection of 17 n…
Jessica Orwig
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This Isaac Asimov Essay Found After 55 Years Contains 7 Great Ideas For Creativity
It was written when the pair worked informally together at MIT spinoff Allied Research Associates (…
Joshua Barrie
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In 1964, The Brilliant Isaac Asimov Wrote Some Predictions For 2014 - Wait Until You See How Right He Was
This isn't quite the scenario from "The Matrix", but it's already very much arrived. The machines h…
Dylan Love
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REMINDER: Asimov's Laws Of Robotics Won't Protect You And Robots Will Be More Than Happy To Kill Us All
We were surprised when, in casual conversation, an acquaintance expressed relief at the existence o…
Dylan Love
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Elon Musk's childhood fascination with sci-fi motivates his desire to lead the AI race, biographer Walter Isaacson says
Walter Isaacson says Elon Musk's mission to save humanity from hostile AI likely stems from reading…
Ana Altchek
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These 3 science fiction stories inspired Elon Musk and explain his business choices but critics say he's missing the point
Musk says he has drawn inspiration from Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide," Isaac Asimov's "Founda…
Kai Xiang Teo
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Google DeepMind has new rules to make sure AI robots behave when tidying your home
The tech giant has introduced a set of new advancements that seek to make robots powered by AI a lo…
Hasan Chowdhury
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'No religion, smoking, doing drugs' on Apple TV+ here's why, and what's coming next to the tech giant's streamer
Apple TV+ is growing its slate of shows and movies. The streamer wants "commercial fare" and more r…
Lucia Moses
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5 books you should read this holiday, according to Bill Gates
The Microsoft co-founder recommended two sci-fi books this year, and nonfiction reads about science…
Tim Levin
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Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sánchez meet with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in New York
A spokesperson for the prime minister said Boris Johnson and Jeff Bezos discussed both climate chan…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The West was founded by whiny pioneers. Silicon Valley Bank is just the latest.
From Manifest Destiny to Big Tech, Silicon Valley Bank's crash is a case study in the how the West …
Adam Rogers
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15 of the funniest things you can ask Siri on an iPhone
You can ask Siri funny things in addition to your usual questions. Siri will respond humorously to …
Dave Johnson
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The top 50 books being used to train ChatGPT and what they say about its ‘intelligence’
OpenAI won't say what books ChatGPT has read. But some data experts have figured it out — and…
Adam Rogers
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Here's the long-lost 1975 TV show that Jeff Bezos makes people watch to understand what his space company is all about
"Nobody did, really, because we've all been planet chauvinists. We've all believed people should li…
Matt Weinberger,Dave Mosher
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A Waymo engineer reveals how the self-driving car company develops its robot brains
Tacking this challenge with her team, Gulati stays well-organized and makes use of Alphabet's flexi…
Matthew DeBord
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What it's like to visit Burning Man, one of the wildest, most surreal events in the world
This was the event's 33rd year on the desert playa, and it included hundreds of art installations, …
Zoë Bernard
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Elon Musk's Tesla and its 'Starman' driver just flew past Mars for the first time, 2 years after SpaceX launched the car into the void
From Musk's old Roadster — a "hood ornament" on a Falcon Heavy rocket stage — Mars would look about…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Apple is making a TV show out of the book that inspired Elon Musk to go to space
The novel, and its two direct sequels, hold an important place in the science fiction canon. To mak…