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Headlines: Bacterial Toxin May Trigger Multiple Sclerosis Onset and Relapse - Neuroscience News (00:57) This iridescent coating could cool your house without air-conditioning | FastCompany (06:20) This Toxic Fruit Could Hold an Anti-Aging Skincare Breakthrough | Inverse (12:28) "Smart" bandage could one day monitor and medicate chronic wounds | New Atlas (16:55) Light therapy could be the key to slowing down heart aging | Interesting Engineering (21:57)

Headlines: Epic’s hyperrealistic MetaHumans can soon be animated using an iPhone | The Verge (01:04) Cheap, fast induction tech enables unlimited-size 3D metal printing | New Atlas (04:55) Scientists develop 'cosmic concrete' to construct habitats on Mars | Interesting Engineering (10:53) New “Biohybrid” Neural Implant Could Restore Function in Paralyzed Limbs | SciTechDaily (16:22) Mozilla launches a new startup focused on ‘trustworthy’ AI | TechCrunch (20:39)

Headlines: Vision restored in mice thanks to refined CRISPR system | New Atlas (00:39) Liver Regeneration: The Surprising Importance of Gut Bacteria | SciTechDaily (5:20) Clean-up protein may turn the tide on brain hemorrhage survival | New Atlas (10:07) This New Material Absorbs Three Times More CO2 Than Current Carbon Capture Tech | SingularityHub (14:52) Free data-center heat is allegedly saving a struggling public pool $24K a year | Ars Technica (20:00)

Headlines: Researchers Say They've Created Superconductors At Room Temperature | Futurism (00:52) New Sensor Can Diagnose Cancer Using Urine | SciTechDaily (08:01) Geothermal startup showed its wells can be used like a giant underground battery | MIT Tech Review (14:04) Safe, effective new procedure to surgically treat common arrhythmia | New Atlas (20:13) Florida Startup Moves Closer to Building Data Centers on the Moon | Gizmodo (26:56)

Headlines: Novel robotic system can 3D print cells onto organs inside the body | New Atlas (01:01) Alzheimer’s Breakthrough As Scientists Link NAD+ Supplements to Reduced Brain Biomarkers | SciTechDaily (08:02) Taking Vitamin D Could Help Prevent Dementia | Neuroscience News (14:05) World's first-ever artificial energy island to be built in the North Sea | Interesting Engineering (18:24) First patient receives stem cell transplant to treat Parkinson’s | Study Finds (23:19)

Headlines: Brain implant startup tests mind-controlled computing on humans | CNBC (00:47) Wilson debuts an airless 3D-printed basketball in the NBA dunk contest | New Atlas (08:24) A groundbreaking spider-like robot is ready to change robotics | Interesting Engineering (13:21) Smart streaming readout system analyzes raw data from nuclear physics experiments | Phys.org (18:20) Electrically charged hydrogel could help heal brain injuries | New Atlas (22:56)

Headlines: Google scrambles to counter ChatGPT but ends up embarrassing itself | Ars Technica (01:05) Nuclear fusion breakthrough with world-first ‘super’ magnet | Yahoo News (07:38) Mushrooms Magnify Memory by Boosting Nerve Growth | Neuroscience News (11:08) Sea-creature-inspired linked robots could explore alien oceans | New Atlas (14:24) “Magic” Drug Restores Lost Memories and Unleashes Hidden Knowledge | The Debrief (17:05)

Headlines: A 3D Printer Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? A 3D-Printing Factory | Bloomberg (01:12) A New ‘Glue’ Could Make Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Cheaper—And Less Toxic | Forbes (09:25) Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks | TechCrunch (14:55) Liquid windows: Energy-saving inspiration from squid skin | TechXplore (20:16) Scientists develop new device to detect brain tumors using urine | Phys.org (24:32)

Headlines Amazon Launches $5-a-Month Prescription Drug Plan in Further Healthcare Push | WSJ (01:01) New spray fights infections and antibiotic resistance | MedicalXPress (08:27) Spraying drugs up the nose may help heal the brain after a stroke | New Scientist (18:47) Toroidal propellers: A noise-killing game changer in air and water | New Atlas (24:24) Scientists Actually Did It: They Built a Real Working Tractor Beam | Popular Mechanics (31:31)

Headlines: Google Research and DeepMind develop AI medical chatbot | Digital Health (01:25) MIT researchers develop an AI model that can detect future lung cancer risk | MIT news (09:22) Major breakthrough as scientists produce first-ever rheumatoid arthritis gene therapy | Brighter Side News (18:54) New Nanoparticles Deliver Therapy Brain-Wide and Edit Alzheimer’s Gene | Neuroscience News (24:02) NASA nuclear propulsion concept could reach Mars in just 45 days | Interesting Engineering (31:10)

Anthropic’s Claude improves on ChatGPT but still suffers from limitations | TechCrunch (01:10) The first CRISPR gene-edited meat is coming—and this is the CEO making sci-fi a reality | FastCompany (11:09) ISS astronauts are building objects not possible on Earth | Popular Science (20:49) 3D printing reaches new heights with two-story home | Nasdaq (25:39) Gut Bacteria Affect Brain Health | Neuroscience News (31:39)

Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks | The Guardian (01:14) First ”virovore” discovered: An organism that eats viruses | New Atlas (11:21) This startup makes high-tech protein from thin air by using solar energy | Interesting Engineering (15:21) Effects of formerly incurable liver disease may be reversed with drug | Jpost (22:56) This New Shock-Absorbing Gel Can Withstand Supersonic Impacts | Smithsonian Magazine (26:33)

Porsche’s synthetic gasoline factory comes online today in Chile | Ars Technica (01:07) NASA Discovers Pair of Super-Earths With 1,000-Mile-Deep Oceans | SciTechDaily (08:24) Gene therapy cures kids with rare “bubble-boy” disease in new trial | New Atlas (12:18) Proof-of-concept drone flight delivers transplant lung to patient in Toronto | TechXplore (17:37) Blood test detects ’toxic’ protein years before Alzheimer’s symptoms emerge |  ScienceDaily (22:55)

Experimental compound shown to block effects of multiple harmful drugs | New Atlas (01:20) ’Mars’ interior is not behaving,’ active mantle plume reveals | Live Science (06:30) Haptic hydrogel ”skin” simulates touch in VR and AR | New Atlas (10:36) Pill technology releases molecules by exposure to UV light | Brighter Side News (15:37) A new water-based switch is thousands of times faster than current semiconductors | Interesting Engineering (21:04)

What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? | ZDNET (00:57) ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an AI and research company. Launched on November 30, 2022.  ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a chatbot.It answers questions and can assist you with tasks Open to the public “ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI," said nonother than Elon Musk Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, stated on twitter the success of their chatbot:“ChatGPT launched on wednesday. Today it crossed 1 million users!” Altman tweeted that just 5 days after ChatGPT went online One twitter thread that I’ve seen that shows the power of this sophisticated chatbot was posted by Ben Tossell (@bentossell)One tweet in the thread was a quote tweeting @jdjkelly post stating: “Google is done. Compare the quality of these responses (ChatGPT)” The tweet has pictures comparing the question asked in Google Search and ChatGPT. GPT was straightforward, explained thoroughly, and had examples. It should be noted when comparing GPT to a search engineChatGPT does not have the ability to search the internet for information and rather, uses the information it learned from training data to generate a response, which leaves room for error.  One issue I have encountered with GPT is that the responses it generates are not always of high quality. Responses may sound plausible, but they lack practical sense or are overly verbose.   NASA’s TBIRD Mission Demonstrates 1.4TB Optical Downlink | Via Satellite (06:18) NASA’s TBIRD mission recently achieved a record for optical communications in spaceThe satellite downlinked 1.4 terabytes of data over laser communications links in a single pass that lasted about five minutes. TBIRD = TeraByte InfraRed Delivery According to NASA, the goal of the TBIRD program was to “establish a communication link from a nanosatellite in low-Earth orbit to a ground station at burst rates up to 200 Gbps.”Built by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory  Integrated into NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 Satellite (PTD-3) NASA confirmed this amazing data transfer milestone on Twitter:“Our tiny TBIRD payload just achieved a major milestone! The @NASA_Technology mission downlinked a record-setting data volume of 1.4 terabytes over laser comm links in a single, ~5-minute pass. TBIRD is showing the benefits laser comm can have for missions.”   Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source | TechXplore (09:34) MIT engineers have developed ultralight fabric solar cells that can quickly and easily turn any surface into a power source.These durable, flexible solar cells are much thinner than a human hair. Are glued to a strong, lightweight fabric, making them easy to install on a fixed surface. Because they are so thin and lightweight, these solar cells can be laminated onto many different surfaces.Could be integrated onto the sails of a boat to provide power while at sea, Adhered onto tents and tarps that are deployed in disaster recovery operations Applied onto the wings of drones to extend their flying range.  They are one-hundredth the weight of conventional solar panels, generate 18 times more power-per-kilogram, and are made from semiconducting inks.Uses printing processes that can be scaled in the future to large-area manufacturing. When they tested the device, the MIT researchers found it could generate 730 watts of power per kilogram when freestanding and about 370 watts-per-kilogram if deployed on the high-strength fabric. 18 times more power-per-kilogram than conventional solar cells. After rolling and unrolling a fabric solar panel more than 500 times, the researchers saw that the cells still retained more than 90 percent of their initial power generation. Jeremiah Mwaura, a co-author on the study, explains why the team is looking at the encasing method next:“Encasing these solar cells in heavy glass, as is standa