The Download: exascale computing, and AI takes on geometry
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The next generation of nuclear reactors is getting more advanced. Here’s how.
Many of these so-called advanced technologies were invented and even demonstrated over 50 years ago, before the industry converged on...
How hot salt could transform nuclear power
Kairos is making progress on construction, too. The company received approval in December from the NRC to build Hermes-1, its...
Start with data to build a better supply chain
Laurel: On that topic of workplace agility. In 2020, bp began a reorganization that consolidated its procurement departments into that...
A new AI-based risk prediction system could help catch deadly pancreatic cancer cases earlier
“It would be anticipated that such a model would improve the current landscape,” he says. “But it really needs to...
Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems
To train AlphaGeometry's language model, the researchers had to create their own training data to compensate for the scarcity of...
The Download: Twitter killers, and how China regulates AI
For the better part of 17 years, the roiling, rolling, fractious, sometimes funny, sometimes horrifying, never-ever-ending global conversation had a...
The Download: Apple Vision Pro, and how AI judges gymnastics
Every year for the past 20+ years, MIT Technology Review has selected a list of the breakthrough technologies that will...
How AI is changing gymnastics judging
Kaia Tanskanen in her blue leotard competes on uneven bars during the women's qualifications of the 2023 World Championships in...
Why everyone’s excited about household robots again
I have a chair of shame at home. By that I mean a chair in my bedroom onto which I...
Outperforming competitors as a data-driven organization
“Companies need to have the necessary data foundations, data ecosystems, and data culture to embrace an AI-driven operating model,” says Akhilesh...
The Download: super-efficient solar cells, and helpful robots
In November 2023, a buzzy solar technology broke yet another world record for efficiency. The previous record had existed for...
The FTC’s unprecedented move against data brokers, explained
“The FTC’s action is significant because of the prohibitions—barring the company from selling data about sensitive locations, rather than just...
Watch this robot cook shrimp and clean autonomously
The researchers taught the robot, called Mobile ALOHA (an acronym for “a low-cost open-source hardware teleoperation system for bimanual operation”),...
The race to get next-generation solar technology on the market
But the industry must ensure that every cell will be that durable; worldwide, companies manufacture hundreds of millions of solar...
The Download: heat pumps, and getting drugs to the brain
1 Microsoft briefly usurped Apple as the world’s most valuable companyThe AI boom has investors laughing all the way to...
The innovation that gets an Alzheimer’s drug through the blood-brain barrier
Last week, researchers at the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute reported that by using focused ultrasound to open the...
The Download: enhanced geothermal systems, and promising climate tech
Geothermal heat, an abundant and carbon-free energy source, offers an alternative to fossil fuels that doesn’t vary with the weather...
Three climate technologies breaking through in 2024
I caught the Golden Globes last weekend, and the Grammys and Oscars aren’t far off. But the best awards, in...
Deploying high-performance, energy-efficient AI
Zane: Yes, I think over the last three or four years, there've been a number of initiatives. Intel's played a...
