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AI finds hidden evidence of ancient human fires 1 million years ago

An AI tool has spotted subtle evidence of changes in flint tools that indicate ancient humans had cooking fires at a 1-million-year-old archaeological site in Israel

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Serah Reikka: What's it like to be a virtual influencer?

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Serah Reikka: What's it like to be a virtual influencer?

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Mathematics

AI translates maths problems into code to make them easier to solve

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Will AI text-to-image generators put illustrators out of a job?

Technology

Will AI text-to-image generators put illustrators out of a job?

Analysis

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Mind

The grand plan to create a periodic table of all animal intelligence

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AI strips out city noise to improve earthquake monitoring systems

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AI-powered camera traps could protect Gabon wildlife from poachers

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AI-powered camera traps could protect Gabon wildlife from poachers

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Life

Crows may owe their intelligence to an abundance of certain neurons

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POM-3 mines

Technology

Russia claims 'smart' landmines used in Ukraine only target soldiers

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Life

Bats can remember sounds they haven't heard for more than 4 years

Animals known to be highly intelligent, such as ravens and chimpanzees, have good long-term memory – and now it seems that some bats do too

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Life

Stingrays and zebra mbuna fish know how to add and subtract

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Technology

AI can create a computer inside itself to run another AI or play Pong

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Life

Octopus brains may have become complex the same way human brains did

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Technology

Drones and AI help find pebble-sized meteorite that landed in 2021

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