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We should talk more about air-conditioning

Things are starting to warm up here in the New York City area, and it’s got me t...

Brain-computer interfaces face a critical test

Tech companies are always trying out new ways for people to interact with comput...

The Download: peering inside an LLM, and the rise of Si...

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How to save a glacier

Glaciers generally move so slowly you can’t see their progress with the naked ey...

Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get trick...

Heading north in the dark, the only way Gavesh could try to track his progress t...

OpenAI’s new image generator aims to be practical enoug...

OpenAI has released a new image generator that’s designed less for typical surre...

The Download: creating “spare” human bodies, and ditchi...

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OpenAI has released its first research into how using C...

OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week. But how does interac...

Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a ...

AI agents have set the tech industry abuzz. Unlike chatbots, these groundbreakin...

Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier”

The Thwaites glacier is a fortress larger than Florida, a wall of ice that reach...

Autopsies can reveal intimate health details. Should th...

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been following news of the deaths of actor G...

4 technologies that could power the future of energy

Where can you find lasers, electric guitars, and racks full of novel batteries, ...

The Download: Google playing AI search catchup, and for...

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The Download: Google DeepMind’s plans for robots, and E...

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This artificial leaf makes hydrocarbons out of carbon d...

For many years, researchers have been working to build devices that can mimic ph...

Waabi says its virtual robotrucks are realistic enough ...

Canadian robotruck startup Waabi says its super-realistic virtual simulation is ...

The Download: making AI fairer, and why everyone’s talk...

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The Download: supercharging the power grid, and a new C...

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The cheapest way to supercharge America’s power grid

US electricity consumption is rising faster than it has in decades, thanks in pa...

The Download: gene de-extinction, and Ukraine’s Starlin...

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Inside the Wild West of AI companionship

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To...

An ancient man’s remains were hacked apart and kept in ...

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biote...

The Download: Amazon’s quantum chip, and preventing bat...

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Technology shapes relationships. Relationships shape te...

Greetings from a cold winter day. As I write this letter, we are in the early st...

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