This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 10)
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Summary
This week, Apple’s Eddy Cue said AI could render the iPhone obsolete; Amazon’s robotics could make humans redundant in warehouses; Google searches declined as AI web tools rose; AI translation headphones that clone multiple voices were showcased; AI avatars addressed a court for the first time; new types of electricity-conducting bacteria were discovered; Cisco’s new quantum computing chip could speed up the practical quantum computing timeline by a decade; and Google, Microsoft, and others outlined how to create better AI evaluation benchmarks.
Also, we featured stories on the search for a new battery to replace gasoline engines, the smallest SSD ever created, coding emerging as the breakout star for generative AI, the FAA clearing Starship launches every other week from Starbase, AI-powered signing avatars for the deaf, and two scientists finding no winner in their consciousness theories.
