The Download: Earth’s rumblings, and AI for strikes on Iran
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 How Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is being used for...
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The Download: The startup that says it can stop lightning, and inside OpenAI’s Pentagon deal
Startup Skyward Wildfire says it can prevent catastrophic fires by stopping the lightning strikes that ignite them. So far, it hasn’t publicly revealed how it does so,...
The Download: protesting AI, and what’s floating in space
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. I checked out...
The Download: how AI is shaking up Go, and a cybersecurity mystery
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 is rewiring...
The Download: How America lost its lead in the hunt for alien life, and ambitious battery claims
In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these marks are almost always...
The Download: Introducing the Crime issue
Technology has long made crime and its prosecution a game of cat and mouse. But those same new technologies that have allowed crime to outpace...
The Download: Radioactive rhinos, and the rise and rise of peptides
Every year, poachers shoot hundreds of rhinos, fishing crews haul millions of sharks out of protected seas, and smugglers carry countless animals and plants across...
The Download: Chicago’s surveillance network, and building better bras
Chicago has tens of thousands of surveillance cameras—up to 45,000, by some estimates. That’s among the highest numbers per capita in the US. Chicago boasts...
The Download: Microsoft’s online reality check, and the worrying rise in measles cases
AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives. There are the high-profile cases you may easily spot. Other times, it slips quietly into social media feeds...
The Download: Autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots
“Too often, those victims have been left to fight alone…That is not justice. It is failure.” —Keir Starmer, the UK’s prime minister, outlines plans to...