Technology News for Wednesday 5th March 2025

1. Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton smile in separate portraits. Research by Andrew Barto, left, and Richard Sutton at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, plays a key role in today's A.I. systems ...

2. The new M4 MacBook Air makes our favorite laptop faster with a lower price

Apple's press release states the M4 chip will enable performance that's up to twice as fast as the M1 MacBook Air (the company did not provide comparisons to the M2 and M3, so I'll be doing that in my review), positioning this MacBook Air as an upgrade for ...

3. Google leans further into AI-generated overviews for its search engine

Google is updating its ubiquitous search engine with the next generation of its artificial intelligence technology as part of an effort to provide instant expertise amid intensifying competition from smaller competitors. The company announced Wednesday ...

4. Google Leans Further Into AI-Generated Overviews for Its Search Engine

Google is updating its ubiquitous search engine with the next generation of its artificial intelligence technology as part of an effort to provide instant expertise amid intensifying competition from smaller competitors. By Associated Press.

5. Prime Video begins an AI dubbing pilot program on licensed movies and series

To make its vast streaming library accessible to even more customers, Prime Video will begin offering AI-aided dubbing on licensed movies and series that would not have been dubbed otherwise.

6. Clonal dynamics and somatic evolution of haematopoiesis in mouse

Haematopoietic stem cells maintain blood production throughout life. Although extensively characterized using the laboratory mouse, little is known about clonal selection and population dynamics of the haematopoietic stem cell pool during murine ageing ...

7. MWC 2025: 3 unique phones that are worth waiting for

From futuristic concepts to real-world advancements, the event covered a vast spectrum of announcements. However, among the many exciting reveals, a select few smartphones stood out as truly worth waiting for. Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, Infinix triple-fold ...

8. Prediction of mental health risk in adolescents

Here, using psychosocial questionnaires and neuroimaging measures from over 11,000 children in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study, we trained neural network models to stratify general psychopathology risk. The model trained on current ...

9. NASA, Italy Achieve First GNSS Signals on Moon

The agency said Tuesday the LuGRE payload, launched on March 2 aboard Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost, showed that the GNSS signals can be received and tracked on the Moon. It is the first technology demonstration to achieve the feat.

10. Feeling is believing: Bionic hand 'knows' what it's touching, grasps like a human

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it ...

11. VW ID.Every1 Concept Previews the Automaker's Sub-$22000 EV

Alas, we don't expect this low-powered small EV to come to the United States. Volkswagen plans to sell a sub-$22,000 battery-electric vehicle in 2027, and the ID ...

12. Scientists crack how aspirin might stop cancers from spreading

Scientists believe they have discovered how the cheap painkiller aspirin can stop cancers spreading. In animal experiments they showed the drug enhanced the ability of the immune system to fight back. The team at the University of Cambridge said it was ...

13. Navigating the Windows 10 to 11 Migration for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal

Importing new Windows 10 images to WorkSpaces will no longer be supported. Migration paths. Windows 11 brings advanced security features enabled with TPM and UEFI Secure Boot technology. To implement these enhanced security capabilities ...

14. Google tests an AI-only version of its search engine

The new feature, available to subscribers of Google One AI Premium, can be accessed via the results page for any search query by clicking on a tab labeled "AI Mode" to the side of existing options like Images and Maps.