The Download: AI for debates, and what to know about the Oropouche virus
—Rich Heley, chief designer of Worldcoin, details the company’s plans to roll out even more eye-scanning orbs to capture people’s...
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Oropouche virus is spreading. Here’s what we know.
It may also be causing more severe disease. People with Oropouche fever typically have a sudden fever, aches and pains,...
AI could help people find common ground during deliberations
Participants were divided up into six-person groups, with one participant in each randomly assigned to write statements on behalf of...
Transforming software with generative AI
Where exactly are we on this transformative journey? How are enterprises navigating this new terrain—and what’s still ahead? To investigate...
The Download: farming on Mars, and lab robots
Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped against shorelines, strong winds gusted and howled,...
This lab robot mixes chemicals
Imagine having a robot that can collaborate with a human scientist on a chemistry experiment, says Alán Aspuru-Guzik, a chemist,...
The quest to figure out farming on Mars
A paper she read in the journal Nature finally spurred her into action. Soil organic matter, which is necessary for...
Cloud transformation clears businesses for digital takeoff
Rajeev: Sure. I think these days none of these conversations can be complete without talking about AI and gen AI....
The Download: an intro to AI, and ChatGPT’s bias
Super-light materials that help suppress EV battery fires just got a big boost What’s new: A company called Aspen Aerogels,...
Super-light materials that help suppress EV battery fires just got a big boost
Automakers and battery manufacturers already put some measures in place to lower the risk of thermal runaway, including battery management...
OpenAI says ChatGPT treats us all the same (most of the time)
Bias in AI is a huge problem. Ethicists have long studied the impact of bias when companies use AI models...
Intro to AI: a beginner’s guide to artificial intelligence from MIT Technology Review
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The Download: protecting farmworkers from heat, and AI’s Nobel Prize
On July 21, 2024, temperatures soared in many parts of the world, breaking the record for the hottest day ever...
A data bottleneck is holding AI science back, says new Nobel winner
AI has been a gamechanger for biochemists like Baker. Seeing what DeepMind was able to do with AlphaFold made it...
The quest to protect farmworkers from extreme heat
But because farmworkers are largely from Latin America (63% were born in Mexico) and nearly half are undocumented, “it’s difficult...
Data strategies for AI leaders
Great expectations for generative AI The expectation that generative AI could fundamentally upend business models and product offerings is driven...
The Download: growing Africa’s food, and deleting your 23andMe data
After falling steadily for decades, the prevalence of global hunger is now on the rise—nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan...
How to… delete your 23andMe data
23andMe’s business is built on taking saliva samples from its customers. The DNA from those samples is processed and analyzed...
Africa fights rising hunger by looking to foods of the past
Change, though, was afoot: In 2021, with hunger on the rise, the African Union explicitly called for “intentional investments towards...
The Download: direct-air-capture plants, and measuring body fat
2 Hurricane Milton has left millions of Florida residents without powerThousands of people have been rescued from flooded areas. (WSJ...