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The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Th
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When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically
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This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many
A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for many more people than i
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Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
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The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Su
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The next big thing in hydrogen could be underground
There’s a hunt for new sources of hydrogen, and the gas (or at least the right conditions to make it) could be hiding beneath our feet. Hydr
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Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models
Each day, an airline transports tens of thousands of passengers on hundreds of flights. Often these are not straightforward point-to-point r
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Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis
Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the s
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The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI
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Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot
Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been is
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The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We
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We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only rel
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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already w
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The role of the astronaut is in flux
When the four astronauts on board NASA’s Artemis II swung around the moon earlier this year, they set a new record for the farthest humans h
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What Flock’s defenders are missing
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The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”
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What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?
When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like
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How much hydrogen awaits us underground?
In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the
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The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells
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Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks”
This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female. They’ve developed a CRISPR-based approach to essenti
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This scientist is helping build a missing map of childhood
In 2017, Deanne Taylor attended a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania, just a short walk from her office. A researcher was there
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Job titles of the future: Space travel agent
Roman Chiporukha has long turned wild travel dreams into reality. Over two decades as co-owner of the luxury lifestyle firm Roman & Erica, h
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Roundtables: Inside the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” Idea Shaping US Policy
Listen to the session or watch below The “censorship-industrial complex” is an idea that a network of government, tech, and research groups
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