Vanessa Bates Ramirez

Oct 10, 2024 | singularityhub.com | Vanessa Bates Ramirez

The first 3D-printed house in the US was unveiled just over six years ago. Since then, homes have been printed all over the country and the world, from Virginia to California and Mexico to Kenya. If you’re intrigued by the concept but not sure whether you’re ready to jump on the bandwagon, you’ll soon be able to take a 3D-printed dwelling for a test run—by staying in the world’s first 3D-printed hotel. The hotel is under construction in the city of Marfa, in the far west of Texas.

Dec 23, 2023 | singularityhub.com | Vanessa Bates Ramirez |Shelly Fan |Edd Gent |Aaron Frank

With the year almost in the books, we’re taking a look at Singularity Hub’s most-read articles in 2023. There’s no doubt the year belonged to AI, and coverage of DeepMind’s definition of artificial general intelligence, one of the field’s most controversial topics, grabbed readers’ attention. But AI didn’t dominate the list.

Dec 23, 2023 | zephyrnet.com | Vanessa Bates Ramirez |Shelly Fan |Edd Gent |Aaron Frank

With the year almost in the books, we’re taking a look at Singularity Hub’s most-read articles in 2023. There’s no doubt the year belonged to AI, and coverage of DeepMind’s definition of artificial general intelligence, one of the field’s most controversial topics, grabbed readers’ attention. But AI didn’t dominate the list.

Sep 12, 2023 | qualitydigest.com | Vanessa Bates Ramirez

If you’ve seen the Terminator movies, you may remember the shape-shifting humanoid robot T-1000. Made of liquid metal, T-1000 could instantly self-heal bullet wounds and other injuries, its metal simply oozing back together and making any damage disappear. Decades after the concept of self-healing metal showed up in a movie, it’s left the realm of pure science fiction and moved closer to reality as scientists have for the first time observed metals able to heal themselves.

Sep 5, 2023 | singularityhub.com | Vanessa Bates Ramirez

Switching from combustion-engine cars to electric vehicles is going to be an important part of the renewable energy transition. But for the switch to truly make a difference, the electricity powering the next generation of cars will also have to be all-green, and the grid is quite a ways from that reality. One small loophole is solar cars—the loophole is small because the technology isn’t advanced enough to put any sort of significant dent in the vehicles’ electricity need, but it’s a start.