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The Download: a new brain atlas, and using maths to make sense of nature
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Scientists have unveiled the most compete atlas of the human
The Download: gene-edited chickens, and China’s green companies
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The news: Gene editing could help prevent chickens from catching
The Download: oyster aquaculture, and trusting AI with our bodies
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Carol Friend has taken on a difficult job. She is
Welcome to the AI gym staffed by virtual trainers
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They are also confident their system of AI trainers will
The Download: inside an AI gym, and how to make the internet safer
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Like any good gym, Lumin Fitness prides itself on the
The Download: junk in space, and what’s next for mRNA vaccines
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We’ve just taken a major step toward cleaning up space
The Download: the 15 ClimateTech Companies to Watch
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It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and terrified in the face
The Download: thermal energy networks, and AI propaganda
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The news: Thirteen US states are now implementing underground thermal
The Download: Big Tech’s big AI bet, and crypto’s day in court
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The Download: child online safety laws, and ClimateTech is coming
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August 2022 Matt Kaeberlein is what you might call a
The Download: brain bandwidth, and artificial wombs
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Last week, Elon Musk made the bold assertion that sticking
The Download: fusion power’s future, and robotic running
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There’s a joke about fusion power that always comes up
The Download: China’s EV success in Europe, and ClimateTech is coming
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This robotic exoskeleton can help runners sprint faster
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The team tested the exosuit on nine young male runners,
The Download: Europe vs Chinese EVs, and making AI vision less biased
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1 Here’s what’s lurking inside Meta’s AI databaseA whole lot
The Download: ChatGPT gets even chattier, and recreating space on Earth
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The news: OpenAI has launched two new ways to interact
The Download: inverse vaccines, and Microsoft’s big deal
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On the whole, typical vaccines prime the immune system to
The Download: what’s next for supercomputers, and electrifying everything
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August 2022 We all want to be able to speak
The Download: AI movie soundtracks, and DeepMind’s disease prediction tool
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AI to cure diseases, and China’s deepfake influencers
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Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are cofounders and co-CEOs of
The Download: what’s next for AI, and fighting digital censorship
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DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that
The Download: Climate heroes, and a new way to track diseases
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Yatish Turakhia, then a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz’s Genomics
The Download: talking driverless cars, and updated covid vaccines
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The news: Self-driving car startup Wayve can now interrogate its
AI just beat a human test for creativity. What does that even mean?
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While the purpose of the study was not to prove
The Download: Google’s anti-censorship tool, and China’s critical minerals
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Zeyi Yang, our China reporter, recently talked to Seaver Wang,
Introducing our TR35 innovators | MIT Technology Review
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How do you know what’s coming next, especially with a
What to expect from US Congress’s first AI meeting
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The US Congress is heading back into session, and they’re
The Download: combating covid, and the challenges of governing AI
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Promising new batteries, and how to regulate AI
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The news: One of the leading companies offering alternatives to
How to talk to kids about AI, and China’s emotional chatbots
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In the past year, kids, teachers, and parents have had
The climate tech companies to watch, and mysterious AI models
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For decades, MIT Technology Review has published annual lists highlighting
How Yale University has prepared for ChatGPT, and schools’ AI reckoning
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For many people, the start of September marks the real
Stem cell experiments, and coining “embryo tech”
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The news: In an important test for stem-cell medicine, biotech
China’s AI chatbots go public, and how climate change is affecting hurricanes
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The news: Baidu, one of China’s leading artificial-intelligence companies, has
How to test AI, and the hidden victims of pig-butchering scams
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In the past few years, multiple researchers claim to have
Watermarking AI images, and WorldCoin’s backlash
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The news: Google DeepMind has launched a new watermarking tool
Internet scams, and the ethics of brain implants
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Both of the women can communicate without an implant. The
Open source’s future, and cancer drugs shortages
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When Xerox donated a new laser printer to MIT in
AI in warfare, and US climate policies
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In recent years, intelligent autonomous weapons—weapons that can select and
Tech’s ethical congregation, and the Inflation Reduction Act’s anniversary
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Just before Christmas last year, a pastor preached a gospel
China’s autonomous race, and Kiva’s controversial changes
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Chinese car companies all seem fixated on one goal: launching
Counting China’s mpox cases, and Meta has blocked news in Canada
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1 Meta has started blocking news in CanadaPublishers have branded
The Download: China’s monkeypox crisis, and fighting AI photo manipulation
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The Download: labeling AI, and Twitter’s transformation
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How AI could change politics, and lifting the lid on Facebook
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April 2019Australia’s colonial history is dotted with fires so enormous
Protecting photos from AI, and air-conditioning’s dilemma
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What’s happening? There’s currently nothing stopping someone taking the selfie
Overhauling air conditioning, and China’s fast fashion war 
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A surprising set of materials could soon help make more
The Download: AI transparency, and Twitter’s transformation
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What’s next for the moon, and facial recognition’s stalemate
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It’s been more than 50 years since humans last walked
US facial recognition, and battery ingredients
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Just four years ago, the movement to ban police departments
The Download: America’s AI lawsuits, and Threads restrictions
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Meta’s new AI system, and covert Chinese social media activity
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The news: Meta is going all in on open-source AI.
Heart transplants for babies, and Big Tech’s tax tracking
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A biotech company called eGenesis is experimenting with transplanting the
Bill Gates isn’t scared of AI, and net-zero shipping goals
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Bill Gates just joined the chorus of big names in
Cleaning up shipping, and Elon Musk’s new AI startup
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The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s
ChatGPT can turn bad writers into better ones
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The writers who chose to use ChatGPT took 40% less
A new Turing test, and working with ChatGPT
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—Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI