The Download: alternative aviation fuels, and drone-delivered bubble tea
June 2020Venture capitalists sell themselves as the top of the heap in Silicon Valley. They are the talent spotters, the...
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I ordered a bubble tea by drone in Shenzhen
I found that the reality of drone delivery is still far from ideal, and people may be turned away by...
Everything you need to know about the wild world of alternative jet fuels
On the other end of the spectrum, some crop-based biofuels can actually produce more carbon dioxide emissions overall than fossil...
Are We About To Go Into A Recession? Here’s What The Data Says (Or Doesn’t Say)
Key takeaways Inflation, housing and jobs data all pointing the right direction for taming high inflation while avoiding a recession...
The Download: urban drone deliveries, and our guide to AI regulations
—Zeyi Yang In a buzzy urban area in Shenzhen, China, I watched as a drone descended onto a pickup kiosk...
Suddenly, everyone wants to talk about how to regulate AI
Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared before a US Senate committee to talk about the risks and potential of...
Food delivery by drone is just part of daily life in Shenzhen
The workflow is a mix of human and automated labor. Once the drone delivery system gets an order (customers order...
Our quick guide to the 6 ways we can regulate AI
Everyone from tech company CEOs to US senators and leaders at the G7 meeting has in recent weeks called for...
Meta’s new AI models can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages
There are around 7,000 languages in the world, but existing speech recognition models cover only about 100 of them comprehensively....
AI Regulation Wheels Are In Motion And Congress Battles With Getting The Debt Ceiling Increased – Forbes AI Newsletter May 20th
TL;DR Failure to reach agreement on the U.S. government debt ceiling could mean a default on Treasury bonds - but...
Brain waves can tell us how much pain someone is in
“The hope is that now that we know where these signals live, and now that we know what type of...
Morgan Stanley CEO Announces Retirement, Sparks Questions Over Succession
Key takeaways Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman confirmed at the annual shareholder meeting he was stepping down from the role...
The Download: rub-on gene therapy, and safeguarding email memories
The news: Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration approved sales of the first gene therapy that is directly...
How to preserve your digital memories
It got me thinking about my own email records, and the systems that we have—or, more precisely, don’t have—for preserving...
The FDA just approved rub-on gene therapy that helps “butterfly” children
"I think it is really exciting, but I do worry about how durable the treatment is," says Denitsa Milanova, founder...
Should You Add Defense Stocks To Your Portfolio In 2023?
Key takeaways War in Ukraine and U.S.-China relationship breakdown has put a new spotlight on defense stocks Defense spending in...
The Download: preserving digital lives, and more sensitive prostheses
Earlier this week, Google announced its intention to start deleting personal accounts that haven’t been active in over two years...
Your digital life isn’t as permanent as you think it is
It’s a lot to ask of tech companies to host all of our data indefinitely, says Caplan. Although data storage...
I just met the founders of a would-be longevity state
My journey to Zuzalu wasn’t straightforward. My 3 a.m. train to the airport was canceled, and my flight was delayed....
A soft e-skin mimics the way human skin can sense things
It was created by a team of researchers from Stanford University, who implanted soft e-skin electrodes in the brains of...
