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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
