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What Nickel Oxide ‘Learning’ Like Animals Do Means for the Future of Artificial Intelligence
A unique material, nickel oxide demonstrates the ability to learn things about its environment in a way that emulates the most basic learning abilities of animals, as my colleagues and I describe in a new paper. For over half a century, neuroscientists have studied sea slugs to understand basic animal learning. Two fundamental concepts of…
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Secrets of New Zealand’s Extinct Marine Reptiles Revealed 150 Years After Fossil Discovery
New Zealand’s fossil record of land dinosaurs is poor, with just a few bones, but the collection of ancient extinct marine reptiles is remarkable, including shark-like mosasaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the fossil record around 200 million years ago and died off, alongside dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. They are best known…
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LG Is Back in the Robot Game for CES 2022, Baby
LG is back at CES 2022, showing off a big door-to-door delivery robot alongside some other interesting tech at this year’s tech expo.
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HP Just Announced So Many Laptops I Lost Count
HP just announced heaps of new tech at CES 2022, including impressive new laptops, powerful desktop PCs and monitors with webcams.