[ Google spent much of the past year hustling to build its Gemini chatbot to counter ChatGPT, pitching it as a multifunctional AI assistant that can help with work tasks or the digital chores of personal life. More quietly, the company has been working to enhance a more specialized artificial intelligence tool that is already … Read more
[ The White House has issued new rules aimed at companies that manufacture synthetic DNA after years of warnings that a pathogen made with mail-order genetic material could accidentally or intentionally spark the next pandemic. The rules, released on April 29, are the result of an executive order signed by President Joe Biden last fall … Read more
[ In 2017, detectives at the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department working a cold case got an idea, one that might help them finally get a lead on the murder of Maria Jane Weidhofer. Officers had found Weidhofer, dead and sexually assaulted, at Berkeley, California’s Tilden Regional Park in 1990. Nearly 30 years … Read more
[ “Computing has always been based on electronics,” Arwani says. “That’s good because it’s very fast. You can access your data in nanoseconds. However, electronics are very fragile and very difficult to maintain.” Founded in 2021, Biomemory’s larger goal is to develop DNA storage devices that could be used in place of hard drives in … Read more
