Future

Helldivers 2's most freedom-hating enemies will soon be brought down a peg, as developer Arrowhead Studios has confirmed it's looking at changes that would adjust both the spawn rates and health pools of enemies like Chargers and Hulks.In a post on the official Helldivers 2 Discord server (via Gamesradar), community manager Spitz stated the team has heard player concerns and complaints over armored enemies, their spawn rates, and players' ability to deal with such threats.…

A cryptographic tag developed at MIT uses terahertz waves to authenticate items by recognizing the unique pattern of microscopic metal particles that are mixed into the glue that sticks the tag to the item’s surface. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT. Chip courtesy of the researchersMIT engineers developed a tag that can reveal with near-perfect accuracy whether an item is real or fake. The key is in the glue on the back of the tag.A few years ago, MIT researchers invented a cryptographic ID tag that is several times…

After a year of basking in global fame, the San Francisco company OpenAI is now confronting a multitude of challenges that could threaten its position at the vanguard of artificial intelligence research.Some of its conflicts stem from decisions made well before the debut of ChatGPT, particularly its unusual shift from an idealistic nonprofit to a big business backed by billions of dollars in investments.It’s too early to tell if OpenAI and its attorneys will beat back a barrage of lawsuits from Elon Musk, the New York…

Predicting the future—or at least, trying to—is the backbone of economics and an augur of how our society evolves. Government policies, investment decisions, and global economic plans are all predicated on estimating what’s happening in the future. But guessing right is tricky.However, a new study by researchers at the London School of Economics, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Pennsylvania suggests that forecasting the future is a task that could well be outsourced to generative…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends I’ve seen a future where you may never need apps or to unlock your phone at all, yet still get everything you want done, plus more, and even faster than you can now. At MWC 2024, Deutsche Telekom and Brain Technologies showed off the concept of an appless phone, where actions we normally perform using them are instead handled by an AI concierge that lives on the device’s lock screen. The week before the show, I spoke to Brain’s founder and CEO Jerry Yue and had an in-depth demonstration…

It has recently been shown that the biocatalyst iron nitrogenase not only fixes nitrogen, but also carbon dioxide. However, this nitrogenase form has so far been the least studied. Now two proteins have been identified that are crucial for the energy supply of the enzyme. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology/GeiselDiscovering essential electron carriers in nitrogenases opens new paths for eco-friendly chemical production, addressing a long-standing research bottleneck.Nitrogenases are considered…

We know that there are thousands of exoplanets out there, with many millions more waiting to be discovered. But the vast majority of exoplanets are simply uninhabitable.For the few that may be habitable, we can only determine if they are by examining their atmospheres. LIFE, the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets, can help.The search for biosignatures on potentially habitable exoplanets is heating up. The JWST has successfully gathered some atmospheric spectra from exoplanet atmospheres, but it has a lot of other jobs…

Observed versus simulated historical tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) trends. a The mean of observed SST trend (Mean Observed) (colors; °C/decade) from five observations-based products (HadISST, COBE, COBE2, ERSSTv5, and Kaplan) over 1958–2014. b–d Panels showing the trend of SST (colors; °C/decade) over 1958–2014 within the CMIP6 multi-model mean (CMIP6-MMM), fully coupled ensemble mean (FC), and mechanically decoupled ensemble mean (MD),…

This article originally appeared at The Takeout. Many fast food restaurants have been experimenting with artificial intelligence in recent months, trying to figure out how best to use the evolving technology to drive sales and increase efficiency. Many restaurant chains have tested AI-assisted drive-thru lanes, but the recent struggles of one AI company illustrate the potential shortcomings of this model. Get Gorditas From a Tube at Taco Bell 'Defy'Presto Automation supplies AI solutions, specifically voice recognition…

Many fruits and vegetables already have a layer of food-grade wax that is applied for cosmetic reasons and to prevent water loss. This method combines such wax with nano-encapsulated cinnamon-bark essential oil in protein carriers to enhance them with antibacterial properties. Credit: Texas A&M University EngineeringA groundbreaking wax coating developed by researchers uses cinnamon-bark essential oil to enhance produce safety, showing promise in reducing foodborne illnesses and extending shelf life.Dr. Mustafa…