Both the United States and China are considering possible security policies aimed to control the creation of artificial intelligence, or AI. The Biden administration is seeking public comments on rules for guiding the artificial intelligence industry. China’s internet supervisor recently announced proposed laws related to AI. ChatGPT is a new AI program that has captured wide…
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NASA to Study Water around the World from Space
A NASA-led international mission launched a radar satellite from southern California early on Friday. The satellite will be involved in a major project to research the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers. The satellite is called SWOT, short for Surface Water and Ocean Topography. It is designed to give scientists a never-before-seen view of Earth’s water,…
2022: A Year for Clean Energy
More governments increased plans to support renewable energy and reduce emissions from fossil fuels, like oil and gas, in 2022. In India, the government plans to send $2.6 billion to support the manufacture of equipment used for solar energy. Companies like Renew Power hope to gain from the plan. The energy company has over 100 clean energy…
Mars Rover Begins Dropping Rock Samples for Future Return to Earth
The American space agency NASA’s Mars explorer has begun dropping rock samples it collected on the planet’s surface. A different spacecraft is to recover the samples at a future date and return them to Earth. The Perseverance explorer, or rover, landed on Mars in February 2021. It has been collecting rock, soil and atmospheric samples at Mars’…
Elon Musk May Stop Running Twitter
On Sunday, Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter asking users if he should step down as chief of the social media company. The billionaire businessman bought Twitter in October for $44 billion. Musk wrote: “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.” To abide means to accept. The…
Study Finds Earliest Evidence of Cooking
A recent study found what could be the earliest known evidence of ancient cooking: the leftovers of a fish dinner from 780,000 years ago. Cooking helped change our ancestors. It helped fuel our evolution and gave us bigger brains. Later, cooking would become central to the eating celebrations that brought communities together. The new study,…