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Softbank CEO: The Singularity Will Happen by 2047

Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son has again predicted the technological singularity will occur by 2047, claiming a single computer chip will have an IQ equivalent to 10,000 by then. Like several others, Son thinks the key to managing this superintelligence will be finding ways to work with it, making it our partner in creating a better life.

Scientists Just Found Fossils Containing the Oldest Evidence of Life on Earth

Researchers have discovered what they believe to be fossils of microbes that existed 3.77 billion years ago, which, if confirmed, would be the oldest fossil evidence on record. These microbes would have lived when the Earth was very young and very chaotic, so their confirmation would force us to reconsider what we think of as the conditions for life.
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