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They actually called the drones Terminator drones
Waymo made its cars act like “an aggressive New York taxi driver” - great, lots of Travis Bickles on the streets
"The best books are those that give you a new perspective, but Togetherness by Rowan Hooper has given me something more than that – not just a new view, but a new way of seeing" - lovely words from @pennysarchet.bsky.social 👇
I love this - offline, hand-powered ChatGPT - as @sparkes.bsky.social says, it shows just how much energy LLMs use up (and we should fit one of these with pedals!)
Seen in the wild in Australia!
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So many orchids! Early purple. Orchids have chapter 3 of my book as they are entirely dependent on symbiosis #BloomScrolling
The Pope visits Sagrada Família on the anniversary of Gaudí's death. Great. How about we use his example of a multi-generation project to tackle the climate and nature crisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Darwin was obsessed and immersed in orchid work when a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace reached him in 1858, outlining a theory of evolution very similar to Darwin's own. The discovery that orchids grow in symbiosis with fungi would have to wait until 1899...
Clusters! It may be that adult plants are feeding younger orchids via the underground fungal network (as happens in common spotted orchids) #Togetherness
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As completion of 144-year basilica nears, questions swirl over resemblance of church to architect’s original plans
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Exclusive: AI has killed humans.
For years we've had rumours, unconfirmed reports, suggestions... Now we know that AI-controlled drones with no human oversight have killed humans on the battlefield.
This is a watershed moment in warfare.
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
A Waymo nearly hit me while I was cycling home from @newscientist.com towers - but I'm still cautiously optimistic about driverless cars.
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
"CrankGPT is a fully offline and off-the-grid AI box (...) You can feel that load curve through the crank: when LLM inference and speech synthesis run together, the crank gets a lot harder to turn." squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/
An exploration of how biological cooperation underpins all life - and why we’ve overlooked its power until now - makes thrilling reading, finds Penny Sarchet
A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casu...
A near miss with a Waymo while cycling through London hasn't changed my optimistic stance on driverless cars, but we can't ever let our guard down, says Matthew Sparkes
An exploration of how biological cooperation underpins all life - and why we’ve overlooked its power until now - makes thrilling reading, finds Penny Sarchet
