The Download: American’s hydrogen train experiment, and why we need boring robots
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How to build a thermal battery
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Hydrogen trains could revolutionize how Americans get around
Like a mirage speeding across the dusty desert outside Pueblo, Colorado, the first hydrogen-fuel-cell passenger train...
Researchers taught robots to run. Now they’re teaching them to walk
We’ve all seen videos over the past few years demonstrating how agile humanoid robots have become,...
The Download: commercializing space, and China’s chip self-sufficiency efforts
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Why it’s so hard for China’s chip industry to become self-sufficient
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The Download: the problem with police bodycams, and how to make useful robots
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Three reasons robots are about to become way more useful
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AI was supposed to make police bodycams better. What happened?
On July 25 last year, in circuit court in Dane County, Wisconsin, a motion was filed...
The Download: saving Louisiana from sinking, and the promise of thermal batteries
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How thermal batteries are heating up energy storage
We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a whopping 20%...
How to stop a state from sinking
There is more than one way to raise a house. Many of the mobile homes, Creole...
The Download: a history of brainwashing, and America’s chipmaking ambitions
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The effort to make a breakthrough cancer therapy cheaper
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A brief, weird history of brainwashing
On an early spring day in 1959, Edward Hunter testified before a US Senate subcommittee investigating...
This US startup makes a crucial chip material and is taking on a Japanese giant
It can be dizzying to try to understand all the complex components of a single computer...
Scaling individual impact: Insights from an AI engineering leader
Traditionally, moving up in an organization has meant leading increasingly large teams of people, with all...
The Download: AI is making robots more helpful, and the problem with cleaning up pollution
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The inadvertent geoengineering experiment that the world is now shutting off
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Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward houseguests. For more than a...
Modernizing data with strategic purpose
Data modernization is squarely on the corporate agenda. In our survey of 350 senior data and...
The Download: generating AI memories, and China’s softening tech regulation
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Why China’s regulators are softening on its tech sector
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Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed
Maria grew up in Barcelona, Spain, in the 1940s. Her first memories of her father are...
Open-sourcing generative AI
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Taking AI to the next level in manufacturing
Few technological advances have generated as much excitement as AI. In particular, generative AI seems to...
The Download: how China plans to regulate AI
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Why the Chinese government is sparing AI from harsh regulations—for now
The way China regulates its tech industry can seem highly unpredictable. The government can celebrate the...
Tackling AI risks: Your reputation is at stake
Forget Skynet: One of the biggest risks of AI is your organization’s reputation. That means it’s...
The Download: chatting with the politician behind the AI Act, and how to watch the eclipse
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A conversation with Dragoș Tudorache, the politician behind the AI Act
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The Download: our eclipse guide, and what you need to know about bird flu
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New bird flu infections: Here’s what you need to know
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How to safely watch and photograph the total solar eclipse
On April 8, the moon will pass directly between Earth and the sun, creating a total...
The Download: Harvard’s geoengineering failure, and extending nuclear plants’ lifetimes
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Why the lifetime of nuclear plants is getting longer
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The hard lessons of Harvard’s failed geoengineering experiment
In late March of 2017, at a small summit in Washington, DC, two Harvard professors, David...
The Download: fixing space weather-forecasting, and reopening a nuclear power plant
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How to reopen a nuclear power plant
A shut-down nuclear power plant in Michigan could get a second life thanks to a $1.52...
Threads is giving Taiwanese users a safe space to talk about politics
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The race to fix space-weather forecasting before next big solar storm hits
Tzu-Wei Fang will always remember February 3, 2022. It was a Thursday just after Groundhog Day,...
Purpose-built AI builds better customer experiences
In the bygone era of contact centers, the customer experience was tethered to a singular channel—the...
The Download: inside chipmaking giant ASML, and why Taiwan loves Threads
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Why Threads is suddenly popular in Taiwan
For most people around the world, Meta’s text-based social network Threads is a platform that they...
Scaling customer experiences with data and AI
Today, interactions matter more than ever. According to data compiled by NICE, once a consumer makes...
How ASML took over the chipmaking chessboard
On a drab Monday morning in San Jose, California, at the drab San Jose Convention Center,...
A conversation with OpenAI’s first artist in residence
Alex Reben’s work is often absurd, sometimes surreal: a mash-up of giant ears imagined by DALL-E...
It’s easy to tamper with watermarks from AI-generated text
Watermarks for AI-generated text are easy to remove and can be stolen and copied, rendering them...
Brain-cell transplants are the newest experimental epilepsy treatment
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