The Big Number: 148 
Why embracing complexity is the real challenge in software today 
The Download: brain bandwidth, and artificial wombs 
Everything you need to know about artificial wombs 
Ryan Cohen Named New Gamestop CEO – Stock Falls In Response 
On Day 146, Screenwriters Reach Deal With Studios to End Their Strike
Hollywood’s bitter, monthslong labor dispute has taken a big first step toward a resolution.The Writers Guild of America, which represents...
Opinion | The Internet Is About to Get Much Worse
Greg Marston, a British voice actor, recently came across “Connor” online — an A.I.-generated clone of his voice, trained on...
Making sense of sensor data
These aren’t glimpses of a distant future, but realities made possible today by the increasingly digitally instrumented world. Internet of...
A.I. Excels at Making Bad Art. Can an Artist Teach It to Create Something Good?
Of the many young artists David Salle has mentored, none were ever as challenging as his latest student, who cannot...
These scientists live like astronauts without leaving Earth
Across the world, around 20 analog space facilities host people who volunteer to be study subjects, isolating themselves for weeks...
The Download: inverse vaccines, and Microsoft’s big deal
On the whole, typical vaccines prime the immune system to respond. But scientists are also working on “inverse vaccines” that...
GM And Stellantis Layoffs Number Thousands As Strike Tensions Escalate
(Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP)AFP via Getty ImagesKey takeaways GM and Stellantis have laid off a collective 2,300 workers...
Breaking Bard + Who Owns Your Face? + Gamer News!
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How inverse vaccines might tackle diseases like multiple sclerosis
Last week Jeffrey Hubbell and his colleagues at the University of Chicago reported that an inverse vaccine they developed had...
Bolstering enterprise LLMs with machine learning operations foundations
Once these components are in place, more complex LLM challenges will require nuanced approaches and considerations—from infrastructure to capabilities, risk...
Neuralink Human Trials Set To Begin As Elon Musk Starts Recruiting For Candidates. Can You Invest In It?
(Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty ImagesKey takeaways Neuralink is looking for human candidates to test...
Advances in Eye Scans and Protein Structure Win 2023 Lasker Awards
The prestigious Lasker Awards were given on Thursday to scientists making advances in the diagnosis of eye disease, the prediction...
The Download: what’s next for supercomputers, and electrifying everything
August 2022 We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk...
Tech Giants See Chatbots Everywhere, Including in Your Inbox
The race to bring A.I. to the masses heats upMonths after OpenAI’s ChatGPT seized the world’s imagination and spurred a...
How electricity could clean up transportation, steel, and even fertilizer
I’m starting to feel that way about “Electrify everything,” a common refrain in climate circles. The basic concept is a...
What’s next for the world’s fastest supercomputers
To use Frontier, approved scientists log in to the supercomputer remotely, submitting their jobs over the internet. To make the...
New approaches to the tech talent shortage
A 2021 Gartner survey of IT executives shows that a majority — 64% — believe the ongoing tech talent shortage...
How A.I. Increased the Graduation Rate at John Jay College by 32 Points
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at software that lifted the senior graduation rate at John Jay College to...
Will Hurd Releases A.I. Plan, a First in the Republican Presidential Field
The policy plan on artificial intelligence released by former Representative Will Hurd of Texas on Wednesday makes him the first...
Google’s Bard Just Got More Powerful. It’s Still Erratic.
This week, Bard — Google’s competitor to ChatGPT — got an upgrade.One interesting new feature, called Bard Extensions, allows the...