OpenAI teases an amazing new generative video model called Sora
It may be some time before we find out. OpenAI’s announcement of Sora today is a tech tease, and the...
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Google’s new version of Gemini can handle far bigger amounts of data
“In one way it operates much like our brain does, where not the whole brain activates all the time,” says...
Responsible technology use in the AI age
Technology use often goes wrong, Parsons notes, “because we’re too focused on either our own ideas of what good looks...
The Download: why batteries rock, and Apple’s VR headset returns problem
Three things to love about batteries It’s hard to pick favorites when it comes to climate technologies. Really, anything that...
Three things to love about batteries
They’re versatile One of my favorite things about battery technology is its adaptability. Researchers are finding and developing new chemistries...
Providing the right products at the right time with machine learning
Jorge: Certainly. My role, I will call, has two major focuses in two areas. One of them is I lead...
The Download: China’s digital red packet jamboree, and a methane-leak mapping satellite
But as the need for more batteries grows, digging up the required materials becomes more challenging. The solution may lie...
A new satellite will use Google’s AI to map methane leaks from space
Once in orbit, MethaneSAT’s software and spectrometers, which measure different wavelengths of light to detect methane, will pinpoint both concentrated...
How sulfur could be a surprise ingredient in cheaper, better batteries
Lyten has made progress in stretching the lifetime of its batteries, recently seeing some samples reach as high as 300...
How the internet pushed China’s New Year red packet tradition to the extreme
Catch up with China1. Sam Altman’s plan for a $7 trillion-worth semiconductor empire includes building dozens of chip fabrication plants...
The Download: learning from environmental DNA, and why we should welcome watermarks
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Deepfakes are being used...
Why Big Tech’s watermarking plans are some welcome good news
On February 6, Meta said it was going to label AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. When someone uses Meta’s AI...
How environmental DNA is giving scientists a new way to understand our world
Frogs can be hard to detect, and they are not, of course, the only species that eludes more traditional, boots-on-the-ground...
The Download: join us at EmTech Digital Europe in London!
1 The Biden campaign just joined TikTokAs part of an effort to get younger voters onside. (WP $)+ Imran Khan used an...
This chart shows why heat pumps are still hot in the US
Heat pumps have been around for decades, but the technology has been experiencing a clear moment in the sun in...
The Download: how to improve pulse oximeters, and OpenAI’s chip plans
Visit any health-care facility, and one of the first things they’ll do is clip a pulse oximeter to your finger....
Why engineers are working to build better pulse oximeters
Whether any of these strategies will fix the bias in pulse oximeters remains to be seen. But it’s likely that...
The Download: Google’s Gemini plans, and virtual power plants
—Jackie Burns Koven, head of threat intelligence at crypto tracing Chainalysis, explains why criminal activity online has returned to the...
Google’s Gemini is now in everything. Here’s how you can try it out.
At some point soon (Google didn't say exactly when) this subscription will also unlock Gemini across Google’s Workspace apps like...
Advanced solar panels still need to pass the test of time
Other testing in more intense conditions has found less positive results, with one academic study finding that perovskite cells in...