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On a bright chilly day last December, a crowd of doctors and scientists gathered at a research institute atop a…

In Tanzania, farmers are using an AI-assisted app that works in their native language of Swahili to detect a devastating…

The news: A new AI agent from Google DeepMind can play different games, including ones it has never seen before…

June 2023 Astronomy should, in principle, be a welcoming field for blind researchers. But across the board, science is full…

How it works: Jets release heat, water vapor, and particulate matter that can produce thin clouds in the sky, known…

The news: In the summer of 2021, OpenAI quietly shuttered its mulrobotics team, announcing that progress was being stifled by…

How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections While vendors pitched their latest voting machines in Concord,…

Hydropower is one of the world’s largest sources of renewable electricity.But last year, weather conditions caused hydropower to fall short…

—Will Douglas Heaven Thirteen years ago, as an assignment for a journalism class, I wrote a stupid short story about…

—This is an excerpt from a new book, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, by MIT…

Two years ago, Yuri Burda and Harri Edwards, researchers at OpenAI, were trying to find out what it would take…

1 AI is unleashing a data center goldrushIt could rise from 2% of the global data center footprint to 10%…

How scientists are using quantum squeezing to push the limits of their sensors When two black holes spiral inward and…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world…

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The US spacecraft that landed on…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world…