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human intelligence

These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

Thanks to ancient interbreeding, the human species we thought had vanished live on inside you

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Humans

Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus

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Humans

Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

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Abstract system of quantum computing

Technology

We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI

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Humans

Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

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Life

Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war

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Technology

How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?

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Technology

AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C

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Physics

How AI shook the world's largest meeting of physicists

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A team of Department of Defense drone operators and experts test the technical capabilities of various Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) during a Defense Innovation Unit led prize challenge to identify platforms, components, and capabilities for Blue UAS, which clears and validates flying platforms are safe to fly, cyber-secure, and meet DOD requirements, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, on Nov. 2-6, 2024. The Blue UAS Refresh Challenge included more than 35 platforms and companies, and an expert team of 40 military drone end-users with participation from each service branch and several major program offices in support of the Department???s ability to quickly scale and field commercially produced drone technologies for military and government use. (DOD photo by Devon Bistarkey, Defense Innovation Unit) https://www.war.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2003592438/

Technology

What to read this week: Katrina Manson's terrifying Project Maven

It is scarily fascinating to read about the US military's journey into AI warfare in this deeply-researched book. But what happens next, asks Matthew Sparkes

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Environment

Route-planning AI cut climate-warming contrails on over 100 flights

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Technology

AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here's how to fix it

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Humans

Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

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Mathematics

Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history

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