Roundtables: How does AI work?
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Roundtables: Future of Families: How reproductive technology can reverse population decline
Future of Families: How reproductive technology can reverse population declineSpeakers: Antonio Regalado, Sr Editor of biomedicine and special guest Martín...
Organoids made from amniotic fluid will tell us how fetuses develop
“The entire concept is really groundbreaking,” says Oren Pleniceanu, a stem cell biologist and head of the Kidney Research Center...
The tech that helps these herders navigate drought, war, and extremists
Orenstein and the Garbal team—roughly a dozen local data analysts, project managers, digital finance experts, and tele-agents with degrees in...
The Download: tech help for herders, and bacteria clean-ups
1 AI is unleashing a data center goldrushIt could rise from 2% of the global data center footprint to 10%...
How some bacteria are cleaning up our messy water supply
It’s not just medicines. A dizzying number of personal care products also end up in the sewers—coconut shampoos and hydrating...
The Download: quantum squeezing, and a game-building AI model
How scientists are using quantum squeezing to push the limits of their sensors When two black holes spiral inward and...
Google DeepMind’s new generative model makes Super Mario–like games from scratch
“It’s cool work,” says Matthew Guzdial, an AI researcher at the University of Alberta, who developed a similar game generator...
Why concerns over the sustainability of carbon removal are growing
In background conversations, several industry insiders I’ve spoken with acknowledge that the number of carbon removal companies is simply unsustainable,...
Generative AI: Differentiating disruptors from the disrupted
The overarching message from this research is that plans among corporate leaders to disrupt competition using the new technology—rather than...
How scientists are using quantum squeezing to push the limits of their sensors
LIGO has confirmed 90 gravitational wave detections so far, but physicists want to detect more, which will require making the...
Roundtables: An Inside Look at the 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
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The Download: introducing the Hidden Worlds issue
But rather than just jumping straight into the US, many of these firms are using Southeast Asia as both a...
I’m a beaver. You’re a beaver. We are beavers all.
As efficient creators and stewards of wetlands, beavers provide a hospitable ecosystem for dozens of other creatures, from insects, frogs,...
Tackling long-haul diseases
Tal, who has been obsessed with infectious disease since losing an uncle to HIV/AIDS and a cousin to meningococcal meningitis,...
Puzzle corner
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The first-ever mission to pull a dead rocket out of space has just begun
There are an estimated 500,000 pieces of space junk as small as a centimeter across orbiting Earth, and about 23,000...
The Download: tiny TikTok-style soap operas, and how algorithms change us
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The US spacecraft that landed on...
Algorithms are everywhere
“The present is not a prison sentence, but merely our current snapshot,” they write. “We don’t have to use unethical...
Bans on deepfakes take us only so far—here’s what we really need
Rules that require all AI-generated content to be watermarked are impossible to enforce, and it’s also highly possible that watermarks...