The world's top chess player defeated ChatGPT in an online match in only 53 moves. Magnus Carlsen won the game without losing a single piece, while ChatGPT lost all its pawns, screenshots the Norwegian grandmaster shared on X on July 10 showed. "I sometimes get bored while travelling," Carlsen captioned the post. "That was methodical, clean, and sharp. Well played!" ChatGPT said to him, according to the screenshots Carlsen posted.

Brian Wilson, the musical savant who scripted a defining Southern California soundtrack with a run of hit songs with the Beach Boys before being pulled down a rabbit hole of despair and depression when his highly anticipated masterwork was shelved unfinished, has died. Wilson's family announced his death Wednesday morning on Facebook. "We are at a loss for words right now," the post said. "Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize we are sharing our grief with the world," said the statement, also shared on Instagram and the musician's website. The statement didn't reveal a cause of death. Wilson died more than a year after it was revealed he was diagnosed with dementia and placed under a conservatorship in May 2024.

Four times a year, I attend the Yizkor service at synagogue. Yizkor in Hebrew denotes "remembrance," and the official name of the service, Hazkarat Neshamot, means a "remembering of souls." During the service, I call to mind loved ones who have died--parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, close friends--reliving shared times that were cherished, and some that were fraught. I think about what I learned from these people, several of whom were in my life from my first moments of awareness. I recall being taught to swim by my father, hearing my pious Russian grandmother's tearful account of the Kishinev pogrom, standing by my father's bedside as a medical student in an underequipped community hospital as he suffered a fatal heart attack.

In recent years, roboticists have been trying to improve how robots interact with different objects found in real-world settings. While some of their efforts yielded promising results, the manipulation skills of most existing robotic systems still lag behinds those of humans. Fabrics are among the types of objects that have proved to be most challenging for robot to interact with. The main reasons for this are that pieces of cloth and other fabrics can be stretched, moved and folded in different ways, which can result in complex material dynamics and self-occlusions. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have recently proposed a new computational technique that could allow robots to better understand and handle fabrics.

The community recently grew from 200 to almost 4000 members in a span of a few days and I wanted to take some time to write a more detailed piece on what we are and truly stand for. I see so many of these and lament. NFTs can be so much more, and that's one of the reasons why we started Alien Genesys. Alien Genesys is a celebration of the recent advancements in AI and a commitment towards the future. Every single piece in our collection was created in conversation with our AI, Virgil.

Scientists have created pieces of'smart' glass that they say can recognise images without requiring any sensors, circuits or power sources. Tiny strategically placed bubbles and impurities embedded within the glass bend light in specific ways to differentiate among different images, experts say. To test out the idea, researchers created glass squares that can differentiate between lit up numeric figures from 1 to 9. The breakthrough could lead to a number of new frontiers in the field of low-power electronics, they claim. That includes facial and other image recognition technologies being built into the materials used to make smartphones and other gadgets. Scientists have created pieces of'smart' glass they say can recognise images without requiring any sensors, circuits or power sources.