What happened when 20 comedians got AI to write their routines
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The Download: milk beyond cows, and geoengineering’s funding boom
The outbreak of avian influenza on US dairy farms has started to make milk seem a lot less wholesome. Milk...
This London non-profit is now one of the biggest backers of geoengineering research
“A lot of people are recognizing the obvious,” says Douglas MacMartin, a senior research associate in mechanical and aerospace engineering...
Biotech companies are trying to make milk without cows
At Alpine Bio, a biotech company in San Francisco (also known as Nobell Foods), researchers have engineered soybeans to produce...
These board games want you to beat climate change
In late 2023, Catan Studios announced that it would be releasing a version of its game called New Energies, focused...
How to opt out of Meta’s AI training
Internet data scraping is one of the biggest fights in AI right now. Tech companies argue that anything on the...
The Download: the rise of gamification, and carbon dioxide storage
It’s a thought that occurs to every video-game player at some point: What if the weird, hyper-focused state I enter...
Why we need to shoot carbon dioxide thousands of feet underground
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) tech has two main steps (as you might guess from the name). First, carbon dioxide...
How gamification took over the world
For some, this phenomenon leads to an interest in flow states and immersion. For others, it’s simply a reason to...
The Download: Apple’s AI plans, and a carbon storage boom
At its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, Apple for the first time unveiled its vision for supercharging its product lineup...
How Gogoro’s swap-and-go scooter batteries can strengthen the grid
“We started with the thesis of how smart energy, through portability and connectivity, can enable many use case scenarios,” Luke...
The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom
“Not taking this seriously risks potentially trillions of dollars and billions of tonnes of emissions, not to mention the trust...
Apple is promising personalized AI in a private cloud. Here’s how that will work.
The pitch offers an implicit contrast with the likes of Alphabet, Amazon, or Meta, which collect and store enormous amounts...
The Download: fighting blackouts with battery-swap networks, and AI surgery monitoring
On the morning of April 3, Taiwan was hit by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake. Seconds later, hundreds of battery-swap stations...
What using artificial intelligence to help monitor surgery can teach us
Teodor Grantcharov, a professor of surgery at Stanford, thinks he has found a tool to make surgery safer and minimize...
How battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts
Gogoro is not the only company working on battery-swapping for electric scooters (New York City recently launched a pilot program...
The data practitioner for the AI era
Data practitioners are among those whose roles are experiencing the most significant change, as organizations expand their responsibilities. Rather than...
The Download: AI propaganda, and digital twins
—Josh A. Goldstein is a research fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he works...
Digital twins are helping scientists run the world’s most complex experiments
But the term “digital twin” actually came from a NASA employee named John Vickers, who first used it in 2010...
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