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Googles Gemini 1.5 Outperforms GPT-4

Google’s Gemini 1.5 Outperforms GPT-4

Pranav Pamula, General Writer
February 29, 2024
Hole in the Sun Blasting Solar Wind at Earth

‘Hole’ in the Sun Blasting Solar Wind at Earth

Pranav Pamula, General Writer
January 4, 2024
ChatGPT Gains Vision

ChatGPT Gains Vision

Pranav Pamula, General Writer
January 4, 2024
Quantum Dots, the Nobel prize-winning nanotechnology

Quantum Dots, the Nobel prize-winning nanotechnology

Pranav Pamula, General Writer
October 19, 2023
A Storm of Lawsuits is Dictating the Future of Generative AI

A Storm of Lawsuits is Dictating the Future of Generative AI

Pranav Pamula, Editor
October 5, 2023
A bustling crowd in a market area in Ahmedabad, India. Credit: Ajit Solanki/AP

India Becomes the World’s Most Populous Country, Surpassing China

Pranav Pamula, General Writer
May 24, 2023
An office of the recently-collapsed Silicon Valley Bank. Credit: Rebecca Noble/AFP via Getty Images

The Interconnected Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank

Pranav Pamula, General
April 11, 2023
An illustration of the DART mission. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

NASA’s Asteroid Redirection Mission — DART

Pranav Pamula, General
March 16, 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope, pictured above, may have discovered specimens of a long sought-after class of ancient stars. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez

The James Webb Space Telescope and the First Stars in the Universe

Pranav Pamula, General Writer
March 2, 2023
ChatGPT is OpenAI’s latest creation. SOPA Images/Si via Reuters Connect

ChatGPT’s Abilities Shock the Internet

Pranav Pamula, General
January 29, 2023
Protesters at the Foxconn iPhone plant in Zhengzhou face police. Credit: Reuters

Foxconn Protests in China

Pranav Pamula, General Writer
January 3, 2023
A portrait of the three laureates of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger.

The Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Quantum Entanglement

Pranav Pamula, General Writer
November 30, 2022
Horizon Worlds, a part of Meta’s metaverse, has not seen much success. Credit: Meta

Meta Faces Trouble at the Horizon

Pranav Pamula, General Writer
November 16, 2022
An artwork created by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 depicting the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Credit: OpenAI

AI Enter the World of Art

Pranav Pamula, General Writer
November 3, 2022
The SLS (Space Launch System), pictured above, will carry the Orion spacecraft in Artemis I. Credit: Kim Shiflett/NASA

Off to Space with Artemis I

Pranav Pamula, General Writer
October 14, 2022
Tesla and Twitter

Tesla and Twitter

Pranav Pamula, General
May 18, 2022
The painting Basket with Wild Strawberries, by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, reached an unprecedented price of $26.8 during its auction. Credit: Artcurial

Still-Life by Chardin Purchased For An Unprecedented Price

Pranav Pamula, General
April 5, 2022
The Kepler Space Telescope made the most significant contribution to the project of hunting exoplanets. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech/T Pyle

NASA Reaches the 5000-Exoplanet Milestone

Pranav Pamula, General
March 30, 2022
A Russian gas pipeline. Credit: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters

Gas and Oil Prices Rising Amidst the War in Ukraine

Pranav Pamula, General
March 17, 2022
Sue is a famous T. rex skeleton in the Field Museum in Chicago, but a recent paper would instead classify her as a T. imperator. Credit: Jonathan Chen/Wikimedia Commons

The Controversial New Flavors of T. Rex

Pranav Pamula, General
March 10, 2022
The tokamak in the Swiss Plasma Center. Credit: Curdin Wüthrich, SPC/EPFL

An AI Makes a Major Breakthrough in Fusion Power

Pranav Pamula, General
March 2, 2022
DARPA’s autonomous Black Hawk helicopter flying over Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Credit: DARPA / Sikorsky

DARPA’s Helicopter Goes On Autopilot

Pranav Pamula, General
February 15, 2022
A satellite image of the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in January of 2022. Credit: Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies

Volcanic Eruption in Tonga Sends Waves Around the World

Pranav Pamula, General
January 31, 2022
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is helping map out the universe. Credit: UCLA/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A Record-Breaking 3D Map of the Universe May Reveal the Universe’s Past and Future

Pranav Pamula, General
January 25, 2022
Robots working in a Tesla factory. Credit: Mason Trinca | The Washington Post | Getty Images

Robots: The Future of Labor?

Pranav Pamula, General
December 1, 2021
Semiconductors are experiencing a major shortage due to supply chain failures. Credit: Victor Moussa/Shutterstock

The Weakest Links of Supply Chains

Pranav Pamula, General
November 5, 2021
Google’s Sycamore quantum processor, capable of outpacing one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Photo Credit: Google

Google’s Voyage into the Quantum World

Pranav Pamula, General
October 24, 2021
Team CoSTAR’s NeBula-Spot robot in the caverns. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

DARPA’s Subterranean Robot Explorers

Pranav Pamula, General
October 6, 2021
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