The Download: are we alone, and private military data for sale
The quest to determine if anyone or anything is out there has gained greater scientific footing over the past 50...
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The US military’s privacy problem in three charts
That’s the finding of a new report from Duke University researchers that shows how data brokers are selling this sort of information...
The Biggest Questions: Are we alone in the universe?
While humans have a long history of speculating about distant worlds, for much of that time actual evidence was in...
The Download: how to fight pandemics, and a top scientist turned-advisor
2 Google has launched a new anti-terrorism content toolAltitude gives smaller platforms the ability to track, detect and remove terror...
How open-source drug discovery could help us in the next pandemic
But what would happen if we took profit out of the equation and made drug discovery a collaborative process rather...
Customer experience horizons
Customer experience (CX) is a leading driver of brand loyalty and organizational performance. According to NTT’s State of CX 2023...
The Download: cancelling out noises, and tastes like (lab-grown) chicken
The news: A new system for noise-canceling headphones lets users opt back in to certain sounds they’d like to hear,...
I tried lab-grown chicken at a Michelin-starred restaurant
A swanky restaurant in San Francisco isn’t my usual haunt for reporting on climate and energy. But I recently paid...
Noise-canceling headphones could let you pick and choose the sounds you want to hear
The technology that makes it possible, called semantic hearing, could pave the way for smarter hearing aids and earphones, allowing...
Bridging the expectation-reality gap in machine learning
There is no quick-fix to closing this expectation-reality gap, but the first step is to foster honest dialogue between teams....
The Download: Hong Kong’s crypto obsession, and digitizing India’s documents
The museum building houses the largest reference library for Gandhian philosophy in the state of Karnataka, and over the next...
Why Hong Kong is still bullish on crypto
The day after his conviction, I was at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2023, a new annual conference hosted by the...
The Download: combating Parkinson’s with implants, and counting carbon’s cost
The news: A man with Parkinson’s disease has regained the ability to walk after physicians implanted a small device into...
A man with Parkinson’s regained the ability to walk thanks to a spinal implant
Marc is the first and only person to have received the new spinal neuroprosthesis, a small device containing electrodes placed...
The Download: military personnel data for sale, and AI watermarking
For as little as $0.12 per record, data brokers in the US are selling sensitive private data about both active-duty...
It’s shockingly easy to buy sensitive data about US military personnel
The year-long study, which was funded in part by the US Military Academy at West Point, highlights the extreme privacy...
The inside scoop on watermarking and content authentication
C2PA focuses primarily on content authentication through a protocol it calls Content Credentials, though the group says its technology can...
Disneys Buys Hulu: House Of Mouse To Acquire Remaining Comcast Share
(Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesKey takeaways Disney has agreed to buy out...
The Download: NASA’s tiny spacecraft, and the RSV vaccine shortage
Since the 1970s, we’ve sent a lot of big things to Mars. But when NASA successfully sent twin Mars Cube...
RSV is on the rise but preventative drugs are in short supply
This year we were supposed to have more tools than ever before to protect kids from RSV (short for respiratory...
