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I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The Starliner astronauts may not return…

Several million people were listening in February when Joe Rogan falsely declared that “party drugs” were an “important factor in…

Cooling represents 20% of global electricity demand in buildings, a share that’s expected to rise as the planet warms 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…

—Jessica Hamzelou This week, I’ve been working on a piece about an AI-based tool that could help guide end-of-life care.…

End-of-life decisions can be extremely upsetting for surrogates—the people who have to make those calls on behalf of another person.…

—Frances Houle, Kate Kirby, Laura Greene & Michael Marder In April 2024, Nature released detailed information about investigations into claims…

—Edlyn V. Levine is CEO and co-founder of a stealth-mode technology start up and an affiliate at MIT Sloan School…

He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned…

AI models can easily generate essays and other types of text. However, they’re nowhere near as good at solving math…

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

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

One year ago, seven leading AI companies—Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—committed with the White House to a…

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

What’s happening? Windows PCs have crashed around the world, bringing airlines, major banks, TV broadcasters, healthcare providers and other businesses…

As K-pop sweeps the world and accumulates a massive, devout fan base, these fans have been turning their power into…