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DeepMind’s AlphaCode Can Outcompete Human Coders
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) When it comes to tracking the incremental advances of AI potential, humans have an odd tendency to think in terms of board games we probably haven’t played since childhood. Though there’s no shortage of examples, even recent ones, highlighting AI’s ability to utterly own the cardboard gaming space, those tests …
NASA Drops an Orion Spacecraft Into a Giant Pool
Update 2:25 p.m. ET: Belly flop success! The cables suspending the Orion capsule above the water disconnected, and the researchers got a great look at how the spacecraft would fall in a real-world setting. Future tests will include a drop from a greater height and a “swing test,” in which the module is launched like …
The AstraZeneca Vaccine Can’t Catch a Break
A vial of Covishield, the name given to AstraZeneca/Oxford University’s covid-19 vaccine in IndiaPhoto: Punit Paranjpe/AFP (Getty Images) The covid-19 vaccine jointly developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University is once again running into trouble. On Monday, Germany, France, and Italy became the latest countries to suspend their rollout of the vaccine over concerns that it …
Apple’s Giving Up on Its Original HomePod Smart Speaker
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Apple is reportedly discontinuing its original HomePod smart speaker as the company pivots focus to the HomePod mini, its smaller and more affordable baby brother. TechCrunch reported confirmation from Apple on Friday that it’s shelving the HomePod just a few short years after its initial launch. Reviews weren’t kind when …
Class Action Alleges Cyberpunk 2077 Publisher Misled Investors
Photo: Philip Fong / AFP (Getty Images) After Cyberpunk 2077 debuted to the world and set off a trash fire of rage and disappointment, the clock starting ticking. Many wondered when that anger would manifest itself into a lawsuit to take the game’s publisher, CD Projekt Red, to court. It happened on Christmas Eve. On …