The Download: US house-building barriers, and a fusion energy facility tour
Housing is an election issue. But the US sucks at it. Ahead of abortion access, ahead of immigration, and way...
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The Download: coping in a time of arrhythmia, and DNA data storage
—Jenna Ahart Read next: We’re making more data than ever. What can—and should—we save for future generations? And will they...
An easier-to-use technique for storing data in DNA is inspired by our cells
The new method, published in Nature last week, is more efficient, storing 350 bits at a time by encoding strands...
The arrhythmia of our current age
Even with my heart beating rat-a-tat-tat, I couldn’t help myself. Intrigued by the word, which I had heard before but...
Cultivating the next generation of AI innovators in a global tech hub
The world in all its complexity Today, the rewards of AI are mostly enjoyed by a few countries in what...
The Download: mysterious exosomes, and AI’s e-waste issue
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Palmer Luckey’s vision for the future of mixed reality
Silicon Valley players are poised to benefit. One of them is Palmer Luckey, the founder of the virtual-reality headset company...
Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work.
We do know that exosomes are tiny particles that bud off from cells and that their contents can vary hugely,...
AI will add to the e-waste problem. Here’s what we can do about it.
E-waste is the term to describe things like air conditioners, televisions, and personal electronic devices such as cell phones and...
The Download: an interview with Palmer Luckey, and AI-assisted math tutors
Artificial intelligence could help. A new tool could improve the one-on-one tutoring sometimes used to supplement class instruction in these...
Palmer Luckey on the Pentagon’s future of mixed reality
Though few would bet against Luckey’s expertise in the realm of mixed reality, few observers share his optimism for the...
This AI system makes human tutors better at teaching children math
Researchers from Stanford University developed an AI system calledTutor CoPilot on top of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and integrated it into a...
The Download: Wayve’s driverless ambitions, and AI models built by kids
The UK driverless-car startup Wayve is headed west. The firm’s cars learned to drive on the streets of London. But...
Kids are learning how to make their own little language models
“What does it mean to have children see themselves as being builders of AI technologies and not just users?” says...
Avoiding value decay in digital transformation
“Most implementations are viewed as IT projects,” says Tim Hertzig, a principal in Deloitte’s Technology practice and global product owner...
Reckoning with generative AI’s uncanny valley
Mental models and antipatterns Mental models are an important concept in UX and product design, but they need to be...
How Wayve’s driverless cars will meet one of their biggest challenges yet
Figuring out why the model behaves as it does tells Wayve what kinds of scenarios require extra help. Using a...
The Download: the AI Hype Index, and spotting machine-written text
Why agriculture is a tough climate problem to solveIt’s a real problem, from a climate perspective at least, that burgers...
Why agriculture is a tough climate problem to solve
It’s a real problem, from a climate perspective at least, that burgers taste good, and so do chicken sandwiches and...
Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source
SynthID introduces additional information at the point of generation by changing the probability that tokens will be generated, explains Kohli. ...
