Nvidia’s ongoing GTC developer conference in San Jose is, unsurprisingly, almost entirely about AI this year. But in between the AI developments, Nvidia has also made a couple of significant robotics announcements.First, there’s Project GR00T (with each letter and number pronounced individually so as not to invoke the wrath of Disney…
Leaders of the Department of Health and Human Services will meet throughout the spring and summer to help protect farm laborers from heat and wildfire smoke…
A southern mammoth skeleton found in Spain bears cut marks from stone tools and bite marks from carnivore teeth, suggesting that both hominins and felids feasted on its meat…
President Biden fears an Israeli offensive in Rafah would worsen the humanitarian toll and hurt Israel’s long-term security, his national security adviser said…
Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they can reproduce it, is a cornerstone of human communication that still resists artificial intelligence (AI). A team has succeeded in modelling an artificial neural network capable of this cognitive prowess…
As money flows to abortion rights initiatives in states, some donors focus on where anger over the “Dobbs” ruling could propel voter turnout and spur Democratic victories up and down the ballot, including in key Senate races and the White House…
Iranian human rights activist Atena Daemi didn’t want to leave her native country, but her declining health forced her hand. She ended up undertaking a perilous and unpredictable six-month journey that took her from Tehran to St. John’s…
Thirty-two-year-old Lourencia ‘Renz’ Lombaard has briefly appeared in the Vredenburg Magistrate’s Court on charges of kidnapping and human trafficking in connection with the disappearance of 6-year-old Joshlin Smith.