Unemployment Report Out Today: Here’s The Latest On The Job Market
Key Takeaways The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released their unemployment report today, showing that 236,000 new jobs were added...
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We can use stem cells to make embryos. How far should we go?
Perhaps the bigger question rests on how embryo-like these stem-cell-derived structures are. For some scientists, it’s a catch-22 situation. If...
High-quality data enables medical research
While our focus on the pandemic has now subsided, our health data quality problems remain. We’re swimming in health data—by...
Gold Prices Are Nearing An All-Time High. Could They Push Even Higher?
Key takeaways Gold prices are nearing all-time highs amid economic uncertainty, a weaker dollar and inflation Gold mining companies and...
Synthetic embryos have been implanted into monkey wombs
But within 20 days of transfer, the monkey blastoids stopped developing and seemed to come apart, say Liu and colleagues,...
The Download: ChatGPT in schools, and deep sea mining
Just days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was widely denounced as a free essay-writing, test-taking...
ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it
But it will take time and resources for educators to innovate in this way. Many are too overworked, under-resourced, and...
These deep-sea “potatoes” could be the future of mining for renewable energy
Because of the impressive array of metals they contain, at least one company has likened each nodule to a battery...
The Green Future Index 2023
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
McDonald’s Shuts Head Offices Temporarily As It Breaks News Of Layoffs To Hundreds Of Workers
Key takeaways McDonald’s is making remote layoff announcements to corporate employees after shutting its offices temporarily, having announced the job...
The Download: Turkey’s EV ambitions, and making AI fair for artists
2023 is a big year for Turkey, with both the republic’s 100-year-anniversary and a high-stakes election coming up. It’s also...
China Report: How a Chinese battery company powers Turkey’s home-grown EVs
I’m currently traveling in Turkey, and even though I’m just a few days from starting a vacation and could be...
Digital simulations open up real-world possibilities
Peter: Yeah, I know. That is indeed a big question and we get that question a lot nowadays, particularly because...
Virgin Orbit Collapses, Laying Off 700 Jobs And Marking A Turning Point In The Private Space Industry
Key takeaways Richard Branson’s private space company has come crashing back down to Earth after filing for bankruptcy The move...
The Download: Russia’s crumbling tech industry, and an AI security disaster
In the months after Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, Russia saw a mass exodus of IT workers. According...
The complex math of counterfactuals could help Spotify pick your next favorite song
“Causal reasoning is critical for machine learning,” says Nailong Zhang, a software engineer at Meta. Meta is using causal inference...
How Russia killed its tech industry
It has now been over a year since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, with more than 8,300 recorded civilian...
We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet
I agree with critics of the letter who say that worrying about future risks distracts us from the very real...
Three ways AI chatbots are a security disaster
“I think this is going to be pretty much a disaster from a security and privacy perspective,” says Florian Tramèr,...
Latest U.S. Inflation Report Hints Fed’s Approach Approach Is Working – But Slowly
Key takeaways U.S. core personal consumption expenditure index rose slightly less than expected in February, hitting 4.6% Consumer spending was...
