This startup wants to fight growing global dengue outbreaks with drones
“From what we’ve seen so far, our method seems to be working well,” says Machado. This isn’t the only attempt to...
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The Download: the world’s most expensive drug, and New York City’s e-bike plan
The news: There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs as much as a Brooklyn brownstone...
Why New York City is testing battery swapping for e-bikes
It’s part of the city’s efforts to cut down on the risk of battery fires, some of which have been...
There is a new most expensive drug in the world. Price tag: $4.25 million
But there’s no denying that super-high prices can signal that a treatment isn’t economically sustainable. One prior title holder for most...
Building a more reliable supply chain
For companies producing just about any physical product, the many “black swan” events (catastrophic incidents that are nearly impossible to...
New York City’s plan to stop e-bike battery fires
Existing battery swap networks like Nio’s have mostly included a single company’s equipment, giving the manufacturer control over the vehicle,...
The Download: AI drugs, and how AI is improving soccer tactics
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman is joining...
An AI-driven “factory of drugs” claims to have hit a big milestone
Zhavoronkov has a track record of implementing cutting-edge AI methods as soon as they’re available. He started Insilico in 2014,...
Google DeepMind’s new AI assistant helps elite soccer coaches get even better
The main benefit is that the AI assistant reduces the workload of the coaches, says Ondřej Hubáček, an analyst at...
The Download: new AI regulations, and a running robot
The big storyOne city’s fight to solve its sewage problem with sensors April 2021 In the city of South Bend,...
The AI Act is done. Here’s what will (and won’t) change
The companies with the most powerful AI models, such as GPT-4 and Gemini, will face more onerous requirements, such as...
How AI taught Cassie the two-legged robot to run and jump
Researchers used an AI technique called reinforcement learning to help a two-legged robot nicknamed Cassie to run 400 meters, over...
The Download: legitimizing longevity science, and Harvard’s geoengineering U-turn
On a bright chilly day last December, a crowd of doctors and scientists gathered at a research institute atop a...
Harvard has halted its long-planned atmospheric geoengineering experiment
But the project switched locations several times. Most recently, the team hoped to launch a balloon to test out the...
The quest to legitimize longevity medicine
“The term ‘immortality’ should never be part of our discussion… it’s a total pipe dream,” says Verdin, who personally hopes...
This self-driving startup is using generative AI to predict traffic
While autonomous driving has long relied on machine learning to plan routes and detect objects, some companies and researchers are...
The Download: Africa’s AI regulation push, and how to fight denge
In Tanzania, farmers are using an AI-assisted app that works in their native language of Swahili to detect a devastating...
Africa’s push to regulate AI starts now
In February, just before the AU’s AI policy draft came out, Shikoh Gitau, a computer scientist who started the Nairobi-based...
Brazil is fighting dengue with bacteria-infected mosquitos
The World Mosquito Program is about to start construction on a mass rearing facility—the biggest in the world—in Curitiba. “And...
Decarbonizing production of energy is a quick win
Mr. Mussabeh Al Kaabi: Hydrogen and CCS offer great promise, but, like any other transformative technology, they require R&D attention,...
