The Download: spying on the spies, and promising climate tech
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. Meet the man...
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The Download: sodium-ion batteries and China’s bright tech future
1 Apple is teaming up with Google to give Siri an AI revamp That’s a giant win for Google, and a blow for OpenAI. (CNBC) 2...
CES showed me why Chinese tech companies feel so optimistic
CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, is the world’s biggest tech show, where companies launch new gadgets and announce new developments, and it happens every January....
Four thoughts from Bill Gates on climate tech
Gates buys offsets to cancel out his own personal emissions, to the tune of about $9 million a year, he said at the roundtable, but...
The problem with Big Tech’s favorite carbon removal tech
While corporations, including tech giants like Microsoft, are betting big on this technology, there are a few potential problems with BECCS, as my colleague James...
The Download: Mysteries of the immunome, and how to choose a climate tech pioneer
Made up of 1.8 trillion cells and trillions more proteins, metabolites, mRNA, and other biomolecules, every person’s immunome is different, and it is constantly changing....
3 takeaways about climate tech right now
We knew we wanted this list to reflect China’s emergence as a global energy superpower, and we ended up including two Chinese firms in key...
2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
EditorialSpecial projects editor: Amy NordrumClimate team: Casey Crownhart, James TempleEditing: Rachel Courtland, Casey Crownhart, Niall Firth, Mary Beth Griggs, Mat Honan, Charlotte Jee, Amy Nordrum,...
2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: HiNa Battery Technology and its effort to commercialize salt cells
Led by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, HiNa’s goal is to commercialize sodium-ion technology in an industry dominated by lithium. To deliver that,...
How we picked promising climate tech companies in an especially unsettling year
We as a publication are focused more on identifying companies developing technologies that can address the escalating threats of climate change, than on businesses positioned...