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mattsparkes

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About mattsparkes

Technology reporter at NewScientist.com

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    AI models are making it easier and easier to generate code to build new features, fix bugs or create entire new projects at the click of a button. But that code is often difficult …

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    The shattered remains of Chernobyl’s reactor 4 are one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Not only are the ruins physically dangerous, but they are highly irradiated, pitch …

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    Ukraine has responded to a war it didn’t start by creating an industry it doesn’t want, but could the nation's drone expertise help it rebuild? To learn more, New Scientist gained …

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    Very curious to hear more about this. How is it done, and what's the legal status of doing it?

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    All four of Ukraine’s operational nuclear power plants have suffered occupation or attack by Russian forces since the start of the invasion in 2022. Now, as Ukrainian troops on the…

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    A self-replicating form of artificial life has arisen from a digital “primordial soup” of random data, despite a lack of explicit rules or goals to encourage such behaviour. Resear…

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    The UK government has set limits on the capabilities of quantum computers that can be exported — starting with those above 34 qubits, and rising as long as error rates are also hig…

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