Unlocking the power of sustainability
“The biggest misconception that people have is that sustainability is about carbon emissions,” says Pablo Orvananos, global sustainability consulting lead...
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How virtual power plants are shaping tomorrow’s energy system
One significant difference is VPPs’ ability to shape consumers’ energy use in real time. Unlike conventional power plants, VPPs can...
The Download: China’s chiplets, and OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 watermarking
For the past couple of years, US sanctions have had the Chinese semiconductor industry locked in a stranglehold. Chinese companies...
This Chinese city wants to be the Silicon Valley of chiplets
That’s what I wrote about in a new story today. Chiplets—the new chipmaking approach that breaks down chips into independent...
Why China is betting big on chiplets
But this approach to chipmaking poses a bigger challenge for another sector of the semiconductor industry: packaging, which is the...
Building innovation with blockchain
Full Transcript Laurel Ruma: From MIT Technology Review, I'm Laurel Ruma, and this is Business Lab, the show that helps...
The Download: using AI to access mental health services, and the natural gas debate
The news: An AI chatbot helped increase the number of patients referred for mental-health services through England’s National Health Service...
What babies can teach AI
But what if an AI could learn like a baby? AI models are trained on vast data sets consisting of...
We are having the wrong debate about Biden’s decision on liquefied natural gas
Immediate reactions to the government decision have been predictable. Some environmental organizations hailed the announcement as a much-needed course correction,...
A chatbot helped more people access mental-health services
The chatbot’s creators, from the AI company Limbic, set out to investigate whether AI could lower the barrier to care...
The Download: solar geoengineering’s rocky road, and Apple’s driverless ambitions
—David W. Keith, founding faculty director of the Climate Systems Engineering initiative at the University of Chicago, and Wake Smith,...
Solar geoengineering could start soon if it starts small
Subscale deployment How might subscale deployment be accomplished? Most stratospheric scientific studies of aerosol injection assume the operative material is...
The Download: how babies can teach AI, and new mRNA vaccines
Human babies are far better at learning than even the very best large language models. To be able to write...
The next generation of mRNA vaccines is on its way
What makes it a different beast? Conventional mRNA vaccines consist of messenger RNA that carries the genetic code for covid’s...
This baby with a head camera helped teach an AI how kids learn language
For this experiment, the researchers relied on 61 hours of video from a helmet camera worn by a child who...
The Download: recycling’s role, and tidying robots
1 Mark Zuckerberg apologized to families harmed by social mediaUnder some duress, during a Senate grilling. (WP $)+ X boss...
Why recycling alone can’t power climate tech
For my most recent story, I was researching the materials used for the magnets that power EVs and wind turbines....
This robot can tidy a room without any help
To develop the system, researchers from New York University and Meta tested Stretch, a commercially available robot made by Hello...
The Download: shipping China’s EVs, and new greener magnets
Earlier this month, a massive ship picked up over 5,000 electric cars from two ports in northern and southern China....
Why BYD is breaking into shipping
The Chinese electric-vehicle maker has been particularly good at expanding into different, related businesses. Not only can it make high-performing...