Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airport
The more Clear is able to reach into customers’ lives, the more valuable customer data it can collect. All user...
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Roundtables: What’s Next for Mixed Reality: Glasses, Goggles, and More
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
The Download: police AI, and mixed reality’s future
6 Robots still struggle to match warehouse workers on some tasksFor all the advances robots have made, picking things up...
How the largest gathering of US police chiefs is talking about AI
It bills itself as the largest gathering of police chiefs in the United States, where leaders from many of the...
The Download: Bluesky’s rapid rise, and harmful fertility stereotypes
I won’t spoil the movie for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet (although I should warn that it is not...
The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of social
For example, Bluesky is great for breaking news because it does not deprioritize links and defaults to a social graph...
Why the term “women of childbearing age” is problematic
This lack of research goes some way to explaining why women are much more likely to experience side effects from...
The Download: diversifying AI voices, and a science-fiction glimpse into the future
The big storyHow environmental DNA is giving scientists a new way to understand our world February 2024Environmental DNA is a...
How this grassroots effort could make AI voices more diverse
Ryakitimbo has collected voice data in Kiswahili in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She tells me she...
The Download: understanding AI, and what to expect from the UN’s climate conference
Quote of the day “Shawty crunk, so fresh, so clean.” —Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO-turned rapper, debuts a reworked version of...
What’s on the table at this year’s UN climate conference
As I covered last week, Trump’s election will almost certainly result in less progress on cutting emissions than we might...
Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind”
Neuronpedia, a platform for mechanistic interpretability, partnered with DeepMind in July to build a demo of Gemma Scope that you...
Unlocking the mysteries of complex biological systems with agentic AI
Agentic AI is not just another tool in the scientific toolkit but a paradigm shift: by allowing autonomous systems to...
The Download: the lab fighting exploitative AI, and plant engineering
Back in 2022, the tech community was buzzing over image-generating AI models, such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and OpenAI’s DALL-E...
The AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI
Yet it is “simplistic to think that if you have a real security problem in the wild and you’re trying...
The Download: parkour for robot dogs, and Africa’s AI ambitions
Teaching robots to navigate new environments is tough. You can train them on physical, real-world data taken from recordings made...
Africa’s AI researchers are ready for takeoff
Tech companies have been funneling billions of dollars into quantum computers for years. The hope is that they’ll be a...
Generative AI taught a robot dog to scramble around a new environment
Researchers used the system, called LucidSim, to train a robot dog in parkour, getting it to scramble over a box...
The Download: AI in Africa, and reporting in the age of Trump
It is easy to convince ourselves that we now live in a dematerialized ethereal world, ruled by digital startups, artificial...
Science and technology stories in the age of Trump
Some of these changes will be well outside our lane as a publication. But very many of President-elect Trump’s stated...