Synapse

23 February 2025

Next-gen weapons, techno-battlefields, new rules of conflict | Raj M. Shah

Lasers. Hypersonic missiles. Satellites. $500 drones destroying $10 million tanks. AI platforms creating kill lists.

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23 February 2025

We’re cracking whale language – by using AI | Giovanni Petri

Whales have the largest brains. 6x the size of humans. They live in clans. Babysit. Gather for birth.

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23 February 2025

Why the Ganga is pure. And why science says it will remain so | Pranay Lal

There's a surprising link between the Saharan desert and the Amazon. Trees are not the ultimate source of oxygen.

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23 February 2025

How video games can cure the attention crisis | ‪Adam Gazzaley

Our attention spans have dropped to 8 seconds. Lesser than a chimpanzee. Even an ostrich.

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23 February 2025

Superintelligence arrives. Do we face abundance or apocalypse? | Nick Bostrom

Suppose humans create superintelligence. What happens next? A "solved world" sans disease and despair?

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23 February 2025

Why we need to train our brain for compassion | Matthieu Ricard

There is science to the experience of our emotions. Compassion and empathy, inner strength and simple joys — imagine building them up like muscles in our bodies.

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22 February 2025

Psych wars. Cyber crime. And hacking for peace | ‪Yigal Unna & Wu Min Hsuan

$10 trillion. The amount wiped off the global economy due to cyber crime every year.

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22 February 2025

Why India needs to build AI | Nivruti Rai

India will invest $2.3 billion in AI R&D this year.

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22 February 2025

De-extinction could save the planet | George Church, Ben Lamm

DNA is no longer destiny, but a modifiable instruction manual. Thanks to gene-editing

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22 February 2025

Stories. Sci-fi. And tech as the “most unique human trait” | Ken Liu

Science fiction gave us Frankenstein. 1984. Cyberpunk.

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