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,...
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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...
How new magnets could accelerate climate action
Rare earth metals became ubiquitous across technologies because they represented “a huge jump” in the energy density of magnets when...
Why the world’s biggest EV maker is getting into shipping
Venturing out by themselves That’s why Chinese auto companies, which have become such prominent exporters thanks to the rise of...
The Download: how to combat deepfake porn, and Neuralink’s first implant
Last week, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift, one of the world’s biggest pop stars, went viral online. Millions of...
Dear Taylor Swift, we’re sorry about those explicit deepfakes
I can only imagine how you must be feeling after sexually explicit deepfake videos of you went viral on X. Disgusted....
Three ways we can fight deepfake porn
Taylor Swift’s viral deepfakes have put new momentum behind efforts to clamp down on deepfake porn. The White House said...
Actionable insights enable smarter business buying
Purchasing the products and services a company needs to support its daily operations aggregates thousands of individual decisions, from a...
The Download: AI job panic, and concussion-preventing mouthguards
It was 1938, and the pain of the Great Depression was still very real. Unemployment in the US was around...
People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.
Even those who agreed that jobs will come back in “the long run” were concerned that “displaced wage-earners must eat...
