
Drew Turney
Drew is a freelance science and technology journalist with 20 years of experience. After growing up knowing he wanted to change the world, he realized it was easier to write about other people changing it instead. As an expert in science and technology for decades, he’s written everything from reviews of the latest smartphones to deep dives into data centers, cloud computing, security, artificial intelligence (AI), mixed reality and everything in between. He's also written about brain science and psychology as well as space flight, robotics, materials and sustainability, and a breadth of other topics.
After starting out reviewing laptop computers for the daily newspaper, Drew has written about and kept up to date with every major technological and scientific advance of the last few decades. Whether it’s recounting the pop culture phenomenon of the weeks before Skylab’s fiery return or explaining what makes recommendation engines tick, his specialty lies in making science and technology accessible to anyone from a general readership to executives, engineers, scientists and programmers already working in the industry.
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GPT-4 has passed the Turing test, researchers claimMost people couldn't distinguish ChatGPT from a human responder, suggesting the famous Turing test has been passed for the first time.
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Noise-canceling headphones can use AI to 'lock on' to somebody when they speak and drown out all other noisesUsing only a small embeddable computer, microphone-equipped consumer headphones can block out all environmental sounds apart from a single target voice — even if it moves around.
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Quantum internet breakthrough after 'quantum data' transmitted through standard fiber optic cable for 1st timeThe study used a specialized photon source to transmit, store and retrieve quantum data, a major component of quantum data transmission.
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AI can 'fake' empathy but also encourage Nazism, disturbing study suggestsAI chatbots and large language models struggle to convey genuine empathy, and in some cases even encourage toxic belief systems like facism.
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New display tech paves the way for 'most realistic' holograms in regular eyeglassesBuilding on current holographic technology, a team of optical display experts have invented a way to improve 3D displays that's small enough to work in regular glasses.
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Scientists create 'toxic AI' that is rewarded for thinking up the worst possible questions we could imagineResearchers at MIT are using AI to train AI not to give toxic responses, using a new method that replicates human curiosity.
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Google builds an AI model that can predict future weather catastrophesA new system uses generative AI to predict weather faster and more cheaply than ever — while detecting difficult-to-spot extreme weather events — beating the world's major weather agencies.
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Ultrafast laser-powered 'magnetic RAM' is on the horizon after new discoveryResearchers have found an elemental physical interaction between light and magnetism that might lead to the next generation of computing memory.
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'Jailbreaking' AI services like ChatGPT and Claude 3 Opus is much easier than you thinkAI researchers found they could dupe an AI chatbot into giving a potentially dangerous response to a question by feeding it a huge amount of data it learned from queries made mid-conversation.
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VR headsets vulnerable to 'Inception attacks' — where hackers can mess with your sense of reality and steal your dataPopular VR headsets like the Meta Quest or Apple Vision Pro can be broken into, with hackers adding fake experiences called "inception layers" that let them manipulate how a user behaves.
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AI-powered humanoid robot can serve you food, stack the dishes — and have a conversation with youFigure 01 learned how to make coffee by watching a human do it, and now it can speak to you like a person.
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Chinese scientists build world's fastest humanoid robot — but it's not going to win any sprints just yetBy harnessing a huge amount of torque in its legs, the H1 robot can potentially reach 11 miles per hour at top speed.
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Please don't wear the Apple Vision Pro while driving, study urges, but buying coffee with VR is an 'exciting novelty'As Apple launched its Vision Pro headset, scientists investigated what life would be like living through the prism of a VR headset's 'passthrough' mode.
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This video of a robot making coffee could signal a huge step in the future of AI robotics. Why?Most robots are preprogrammed to perform specific functions, but Figure's humanoid Figure 01 machine — that learns by watching and corrects its own mistakes — might upend the field.
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