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Andrew Tarantola has more than a decade of experience in reporting on cutting-edge science and emerging technology news. His career began in 2010 as Gizmodo’s “book intern” before rising to the rank of staff writer in 2012. In 2015, Andrew moved to Engadget and is now a Senior Reporter covering emerging technologies from artificial intelligence and robotics to electric vehicles and commercial spacecraft, as well as producing the site’s weekly Hitting the Books column. When not telling tales of the future, he enjoys gardening, woodworking, and reading pulp sci-fi serials. Email him story ideas, or tips, to Andrew.Tarantola@Engadget.com.
EngadgetApple details visionOS, the software that powers the Vision Pro headset
Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset will run on visionOS, company executives announced following the bombshell reveal of its long-rumored wearable at WWDC 2023.
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Hitting the Books: Why we like bigger things better
In "Size," Dr Vaclav Smil takes readers on a multidiscipline tour of the social quirks, economic intricacies, and biological peculiarities that result from our function following our form.
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Hitting the Books: Renee Descartes had his best revelations while baked in an oven
In the hilarious and enthralling new book, "Edison's Ghosts," Dr. Katie Spalding explores the illogical, unnerving, and downright wacky behaviors of history's greatest geniuses.
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Swiss researchers use a wireless BCI to help a spinal injury patient walk more naturally
A novel therapy combining FES and BCI has helped a formerly-paraplegic patient to walk with a more natural gait.
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Neuralink receives FDA clearance to begin human trials of its brain-computer interface (Updated)
Following a reported denial in March, the FDA approved Neuralink's application to begin human trials of its prototype Link brain-computer interface (BCI) on Thursday.
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Ford EV drivers will get access to 12,000 North American Tesla Superchargers next spring
Beginning next spring, some 12,000 North American Tesla supercharger stations will be made available to non-Tesla EVs for the first time and Ford's fleet is first in line.
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White House reveals its next steps toward 'responsible' AI development
The Biden Administration wants you! To provide feedback about this whole artificial intelligence issue.
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Microsoft confirms 365 Copilot AI will be 'natively integrated' into Edge
The same AI assistant that Microsoft is adding to Office will soon be natively integrated into the company's Edge browser as well.
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Hitting the Books: How music chords hack your brain to elicit emotion
In their new book "Every Brain Needs Music," Dr. Larry S Sherman and Dr. Dennis Plies, a music professor at Warner Pacific University, explore the fascinating interplay between our brains, our instruments, our audiences, and the music they make together.
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Hitting the Books: The abrupt and ignoble downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried
In SBF: How the FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto’s Very Bad Good Guy, veteran crypto reporter Brady Dale provides a scintillating and clarifying narrative of the entire FTX/Alameda Ventures saga.
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Google unveils its multilingual, code-generating PaLM 2 language model
Google's latest and greatest large language model, PaLM 2, comes in four sizes, able to run locally on everything from mobile devices to server farms.
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Google's Bard AI is now available without a waitlist in 180 countries
Google is dropping its Bard waitlist and expanding its service to 180 countries and territories
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Google is incorporating Adobe's Firefly AI image generator into Bard
On Wednesday, Adobe and Google jointly announced during the 2023 I/O event that both Firefly and the Express graphics suite will soon be incorporated into Bard, allowing users to generate, edit and share AI images directly from the chatbot's command line.
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A robot puppet rolled through San Francisco singing Vanessa Carlton hits
In 2002, pop star Vanessa Carlton and her piano "made their way downtown" through Newbury Park in Los Angeles. Twenty-one years later, a team of hobbyist roboticists have brought Carlton’s music to the streets of San Francisco.
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Anthropic explains how Claude's AI constitution protects it against adversarial inputs
Anthropic explains how binding its Claude AI to a set of guiding principles will lead to better outputs and prevent racist meltdowns.
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Hitting the Books: Why a Dartmouth professor coined the term 'artificial intelligence'
In their new book, professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones examine how data acts as the lifeblood of modern society, shaping everything from our political views and social mores to our military responses and economic activities.
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Humanity's historical fascination with wearable wheels
Turns out one of our best ideas for people-powered locomotion was also one of our first.
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Hollywood writers demand protections against AI exploitation
Hollywood writers are striking for better pay, better conditions, and to not have to play editor to a generative AI system's MadLibs attempt at a screen draft.
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Biden Administration will invest $140 million to launch seven new National AI Research Institutes
The Biden Administration vows to invest $140 million on seven new AI R&D centers and browbeat Big Tech into behaving.
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FTC warns tech companies against AI shenanigans that harm consumers
On Monday, FTC attorney, Michael Atleson, laid out how generative AI systems could be used to violate the FTC Act and what the commission would do to companies found in violation.