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Mini turbines, robot farmers, and more: On the show floor at the ARPA-E summit

Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans

Pixar’s Senior Scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love

Deciphering China’s AI Dream

This report examines the intersection of two subjects, China and artificial intelligence, both of which are already difficult enough to comprehend on their own. It provides context for China’s AI strategy with respect to past science and technology plans, and it also connects the consistent and new features of China’s AI approach to the drivers of AI development (e.g. hardware, data, and talented scientists). In addition, it benchmarks China’s current AI capabilities by developing a novel index to measure any country’s AI potential and highlights the potential implications of China’s AI dream for issues of AI safety, national security, economic development, and social governance.

Lead is even more dangerous than previously realized

Looking back, it seems insane. Bluntly put, we took a known poison and – for three quarters of a century – used it in machines that puffed it out in breathable form. Then we drove them millions of miles a day, all over the world, regularly dosing billions of people with the toxin.

Space grade electronics or How NASA’s Juno survives near Jupiter

VINE: An Open Source Interactive Data Visualization Tool for Neuroevolution

China to bar people with bad ‘social credit’ from planes, trains

Congress debates allowing tens of thousands of cars with no steering wheel

LiDAR scans are finding hidden Roman roads and cutting crime