Matthieu Gafsou - Transhumanism Gallery

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At its Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a handful of new smart glasses, including a slimmed-down VR headset and the company’s first camera-free glasses.

Optogenetics revolutionized neuroscience, but its origins come from an entirely brainless organism—an alga.

A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.

Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

A clandestine card-counting operation suggests we may need new ways to spot agent-to-agent deception.

“Detecting a neutrino is like looking for a needle in a haystack,” says Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, who breaks down why researchers are looking for the cosmic particles under the Antarctic ice.

Snap thinks its chunky, pricey smart glasses are the future of human computing, powered by a new AI app and features that do everything from translating languages to improving your golf swing.

In the hope of uncovering new details about ancient life, researchers have developed a large language model that fills in the gaps in papyrus fragments.

“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.

No cameras? No problem. Viture’s first display-free smart glasses have bone-conduction microphones to privately record your daily musings.

I used an open-source map of a fruit fly’s brain to vibe code a website called PitchFly. Its headline suggestions were delightfully bananas.