The Download: A “dire wolf” revival, and safeguarding AI companions
“No longer do I have to drive a symbol of racism, greed and ignorance! Life is suddenly so much better!” —Actor Bette Middler expresses her...
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The Download: How the US is meeting China’s technological rise, and Trump’s tariff war intensifies
And that had opened the door to the possibility of hacking into the body’s circuitry and thereby controlling a host of chronic diseases, including rheumatoid...
The Download: What Trump’s tariffs mean for climate tech
US president Donald Trump’s massive, sweeping tariffs sent global stock markets tumbling yesterday, setting the stage for a worldwide trade war and ratcheting up the...
The Download: Dethroning SpaceX, and air-conditioning’s energy demands
SpaceX is a space launch juggernaut. In just two decades, the company has managed to edge out former aerospace heavyweights Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop Grumman...
The Download: how to make better cooling systems, and farming on Mars
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. How 3D printing...
The Download: Brain-computer interfaces, and teaching an AI model to give therapy
The big story The quest to protect farmworkers from extreme heat October 2024 On July 21, 2024, temperatures soared in many parts of the world,...
The Download: Generative AI therapy, and the future of 23andMe’s genetic data
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Meet the online activists fighting back against ICE raidsTheir networks are...
The Download: Peering inside an LLM, and the rise of Signal
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 A judge has ordered Trump’s officials to preserve their secret Signal...
The Download: How people fall for pig butchering schemes, and saving glaciers
Gavesh’s journey had started, seemingly innocently, with a job ad on Facebook promising work he desperately needed. Instead, he found himself trafficked into a business...
The Download: China’s empty data centers, and OpenAI’s new practical image generator
3 The US government has hired a vaccine skeptic to conduct a major vaccine studyThe long-discredited David Geier will oversee analysis of whether jabs cause...