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CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant (futurism.com)

2026-01-21 | by Joe Wilkins | get Palantir software → | tags: humanities, jobs, karp

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Common variation in meiosis genes shapes human recombination and aneuploidy (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-21 | by Carioscia | get Genome → | tags: aneuploidy, crossovers, genetic

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This New Skittering Robotic Hand Could Reach Things You Can't (cnet.com)

2026-01-20 | by See Full Bio | get Robotic hand → | tags: fingers, hand, human

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Humans&, a ‘human-centric’ AI startup founded by Anthropic, xAI, Google alums, raised $480M seed round (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-20 | by Rebecca Bellan | get xAI → | tags: humans, science, startup

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Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese (wired.com)

2026-01-20 | by Will Knight | get Robot Coworker → | tags: china, humanoid, humanoids

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Bank of England 'Must Plan For a Financial Crisis Triggered By Aliens' (slashdot.org)

2026-01-20 | get Quantum Computer → | tags: bank, government, human

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The fastest human spaceflight mission in history crawls closer to liftoff (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-19 | get Spacecraft → | tags: artemis, artemis ii, human

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Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-19 | by Kelly Lambert | tags: animal, brain, brains

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I'm an AI Architect: You're Not Being Replaced — You're Being Revalued (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-19 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: berkeley, human, needs

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Robotics and world models are AI's next frontier, and China is already ahead of the West — research shows almost 13,000 robots deployed in 2025 alone (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-19 | by Jon Martindale | get Robotics → | tags: china, humanoid, humanoid robotics

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Tech Corporations Engaging in “Human Fracking” (futurism.com)

2026-01-19 | by Frank Landymore | get I can't fulfill this request. → | tags: burnett, fracking, high

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Forget formalism: mathematics was built on infighting and emotional turmoil (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-19 | by Bhattacharya | get Mathematical Model → | tags: bardi, brouwer, cantor

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Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer (futurism.com)

2026-01-17 | by Victor Tangermann | get Neural Network → | tags: brain, human, research

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Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck (futurism.com)

2026-01-17 | by Victor Tangermann | get Vacuum Cleaner → | tags: humanoid, humanoid robots, major

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The breakthrough that makes robot faces feel less creepy (sciencedaily.com)

2026-01-17 | get Facial Capture System → | tags: face, facial, human

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Video Friday: Bipedal Robot Stops Itself From Falling (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-01-16 | by Evan Ackerman | get Bipedal Robot → | tags: autonomous, humanoid, real

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On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-16 | get EcoCycle → | tags: collapse, collapse pdf, human

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Humanoid robots step up their game: how useful are the latest droids? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-16 | by Gibney | get Robot → | tags: autonomously, human, humanoid

799.

Wikipedia parent partners with Amazon, Meta, Perplexity on AI access (cnbc.com)

2026-01-15 | by Lola Murti | get OpenCage → | tags: enterprise, human, knowledge

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Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-15 | by The Zucc | get Blockchain → | tags: connected, docker, feature

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Wikipedia Signs AI Licensing Deals On Its 25th Birthday (slashdot.org)

2026-01-15 | by Posted | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: deals, enterprise, foundation

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Is Your Lunch Break Now Run by AI? How Corporate-Mandated Wellness Is a Slippery Slope to Mandatory Meal Plans (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-15 | get MealGenie → | tags: employees, human, optimize

803.

Wikipedia’s Existential Threats Feel Greater Than Ever (wired.com)

2026-01-15 | by Stephen Harrison | get Wikipedia → | tags: foundation, human, online

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Bandcamp Bans AI-Generated Music in Bid to 'Keep Bandcamp Human' (cnet.com)

2026-01-14 | by See Full Bio | get Music Generation → | tags: bandcamp, believe, created

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AI agents can talk — orchestration is what makes them work together (venturebeat.com)

2026-01-14 | get Chatbots → | tags: agent, agentic, agents

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Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-14 | get Sparrow → | tags: conversation, conversational, floor

807.

Doubt Cast On Discovery of Microplastics Throughout Human Body (slashdot.org)

2026-01-14 | get Microplastics → | tags: analytical, guardian, human

808.

AI can spark creativity — if we ask it how, not what, to think (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-13 | by Uzzi | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: bots, creative, creativity

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Should AI Agents Be Classified As People? (slashdot.org)

2026-01-12 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: agents, ai agents, human

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Trump’s EPA plans to ignore health effects of air pollution (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-12 | by Tim De Chant | get Air Purifier → | tags: administration, disrupt, disrupt waitlist