The Download: 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
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NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is set to look for life-friendly conditions around Jupiter
Europa Clipper isn’t on the hunt for extraterrestrial life, however. Instead, its team hopes to assess the moon’s habitability—how well...
2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Ceibo and its copper mining tech
The remaining 80% of the world’s copper comes from copper sulfide ores, which don’t dissolve well in acid. To extract...
2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Sun King connects low-income households to clean energy
This is what Sun King has been able to deliver. By providing solar panels, handheld solar-powered lamps, batteries, and home...
2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Pivot Bio and its nitrogen-delivering microbes
Pivot Bio, a biotechnology company based in Berkeley, California, is harnessing microbes to deliver a usable form of nitrogen directly...
2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Electric Hydrogen and its push to mass-produce a carbon-free fuel
Electric Hydrogen wants to address these issues by developing electrolyzers that have about 10 times the capacity of today’s standard...
2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: First Solar and its advanced solar panels
Today, Chinese firms produce the vast majority of the world’s solar panels. Most build cells that incorporate a layer of...
The Download: how to break up with coal, and AI’s false climate promises
September 2022—Anna Louie Sussman Like me, my eggs were flying economy class. They were ensconced in a cryogenic storage flask...
The UK is done with coal. How’s the rest of the world doing?
A tale of two coal declines The power plant, scheduled to shut down at midnight on September 30, is called...
Sorry, AI won’t “fix” climate change
“As long as we effectively subsidize fossil fuels by allowing them to use the atmosphere as a waste dump, we...
The Download: safer space travel, and generative AI in video games
Long-distance space travel can wreak havoc on human health. There’s radiation and microgravity to contend with, as well as the...
Space travel is dangerous. Could genetic testing and gene editing make it safer?
Whether people are going into space as tourists, employees, scientists, or research subjects, figuring out how to send them safely...
The Download: a CRISPR patent battle, and the promise of tiny AI
In the decade-long fight to control CRISPR, the super-tool for modifying DNA, it’s been common for lawyers to try to...
Why Microsoft made a deal to help restart Three Mile Island
That nuclear power plant is typically associated with a very specific event. One of its reactors, Unit 2, suffered a...
Want AI that flags hateful content? Build it.
The challenge asks for two different models. The first, a task for those with intermediate skills, is one that identifies...
Roundtables: Putting AI’s Climate Impact Into Perspective
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe
The chief intellectual-property attorney at the University of California, Randi Jenkins, confirmed the plan to revoke the two patents but...
A tiny new open-source AI model performs as well as powerful big ones
Ai2 achieved this by getting human annotators to describe the images in the model’s training data set in excruciating detail...
The Download: how to connect the US’s grids, and OpenAI’s new voice mode
Michael Skelly hasn’t learned to take no for an answer. For much of the last 15 years, the energy entrepreneur...
OpenAI released its advanced voice mode to more people. Here’s how to get it.
The update also adds new voices. Shortly after the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI was criticized for the similarity between the...
