The Download: toxic chemicals, and Russia’s cyberwar tactics
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Multi-die systems define the future of semiconductors
To say that semiconductor technology is part of the fabric of modern society is not an...
We’re inhaling, eating, and drinking toxic chemicals. Now we need to figure out how they’re affecting us.
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The Download: sleeping in VR, and promising clean energy projects
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Inside the conference where researchers are solving the clean-energy puzzle
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Inside the cozy but creepy world of VR sleep rooms
Lo-fi chill music was playing in the distance. Shooting stars sliced through the sparkling galaxy overhead....
Evolutionary organizations reimagine the future
As the emergence of radically disruptive technologies over the last decades has created, destroyed, or fundamentally...
The Download: China’s retro AI photos, and experts’ AI fears
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Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography”
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The emergent industrial metaverse
The industrial metaverse—a metaverse sector that mirrors and simulates real machines, factories, cities, transportation networks, and...
Delivering insights at scale by modernizing data
Greater speed and agility are helping organizations address an increasingly competitive marketplace, heightened customer expectations, and...
Technology and industry convergence: A historic opportunity
When seemingly disparate fields, industries, and ways of thinking merge, a convergence happens, which, has the...
The Download: the threat of microplastics, and mitigating AI bias
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What if we could just ask AI to be less biased?
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Microplastics are messing with the microbiomes of seabirds
Tiny pieces of plastic are everywhere. They’re in the air we breathe, the water we drink,...
The Download: AI’s gold rush, and how to regulate generative models
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An early guide to policymaking on generative AI
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ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.
Whether it’s based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, an artificial-intelligence gold rush has started over the...
Fostering innovation through a culture of curiosity
When Lenovo set out to transition into a services-led company, they began by looking internally, says...
The Download: covid’s origin drama, and TikTok’s uncertain future
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Newly revealed coronavirus data has reignited a debate over the virus’s origins
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The next generation of connected IoT
Connected devices have become an expectation: whether at home, in the office, or moving through the...
Investing in life sciences R&D by design
Repairing a human liver using lab-grown cells. Using oral antibiotics to treat cystic fibrosis patients. Producing...
Innovation in the space industry takes off
In the United Kingdom, all stars are aligning for the space industry to advance, including an...
The Download: the battle for satellite internet, and detecting biased AI
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Taking stock of our climate past, present, and future
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Amazon is about to go head to head with SpaceX in a battle for satellite internet dominance
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are about to lock horns once again. Last month, the US...
These new tools let you see for yourself how biased AI image models are
Popular AI image-generating systems notoriously tend to amplify harmful biases and stereotypes. But just how big...
The Download: Google’s Bard experiment, and Ernie Bot’s rehabilitation
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The bearable mediocrity of Baidu’s ChatGPT competitor
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Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT—and it wants you to make it better
Google has launched Bard, the search giant’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat. Unlike...
The Download: how we can limit global warming, and GPT-4’s early adopters
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How AI experts are using GPT-4
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Language models might be able to self-correct biases—if you ask them
Large language models are infamous for spewing toxic biases, thanks to the reams of awful human-produced...
The UN just handed out an urgent climate to-do list. Here’s what it says.
Time is running short to address climate change, but there are feasible and effective solutions on...
The Download: weight loss drugs, and a new abortion fight frontier
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Texas is trying out new tactics to restrict access to abortion pills online
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Weight-loss injections have taken over the internet. But what does this mean for people IRL?
Michael Edenfield’s doctor calls him the Incredible Shrinking Man. Between Thanksgiving 2021 and Christmas 2022, the...
A new paradigm for managing data
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company that develops life-transforming medicines, found itself inundated with vast volumes of...
The Download: China’s version of ChatGPT, and protecting our brain data
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Tech that aims to read your mind and probe your memories is already here
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Citizen如何通过招募亚裔老年人来重塑自己
Editor’s note: This is a translation of a story about how the crime-tracking app Citizen has...
Chinese tech giant Baidu just released its answer to ChatGPT
On Thursday, Robin Li, Baidu’s cofounder and CEO, took the stage in Beijing to showcase the...
The Download: flying cars, and not-so-OpenAI
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These aircraft could change how we fly
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The Download: GPT-4 is here, and metaverse marriages
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China just set up a new bureau to mine data for economic growth
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This couple just got married in the Taco Bell metaverse
Last month, Sheel Mohnot and Amruta Godbole got married. This was no ordinary wedding, though. It...
GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why
OpenAI has finally unveiled GPT-4, a next-generation large language model that was rumored to be in...
SAP and Infosys collaborate to make the world a better place through sustainability
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Christian Butzlaff,...