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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for carbon removal? After years of growth that spawned hundreds of startups, the nascent carbon removal sector appears to be facing a reckoning. Runni...
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How are you feeling? I’m genuinely interested in the well-being of all my treasured Checkup readers, of course. But this week I’ve also been wondering how science and technology can help answer that question—especially when it comes to pain. In the latest issue of MIT Technology Review magazine, Dee...
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MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. In the early 2020s, a little-known aquaculture company in Portland, Maine, snagged more than $50 million by pitching a plan to harn...
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Kyei leads power list showcasing black role models across business, science, technology and the arts
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The firm touted its "quiet as a whisper" technology for "when you need to move fast".
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Nike is showing off new performance apparel today that it says it designed with climate change in mind. It introduced its new Aero-FIT performance cooling technology, which it says will make its debut in football kits Nike federations wear in 2026. The company claims the technology boosts sweating...
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Google’s latest pledge to support a new clean energy technology is… a gas project? To be precise, it’s a gas-fired power plant outfitted with filtering devices to capture its planet-heating carbon emissions. Is this just a polluting fossil fuel project in sheep’s clothing? Google just inked an agre...
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This startup is about to conduct the biggest real-world test of aluminum as a zero-carbon fuel Found Energy, a startup in Boston, aims to harness the energy in sc...
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The Oura Ring 4 has led the charge this year in the health and fitness space as a pioneer in minimalist, software-driven technology.
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Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning.
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GM said Cruise’s technology stack, including its AI models trained on five million driverless miles and simulation framework, feed directly into the automaker’s next-generation driver assistance and autonomy programs.
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Campaigners say Starlink technology has enabled crime syndicates to operate from locations along the Thai-Myanmar border.
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the body issue We’re thrilled to share the latest edition of MIT Technology Review magazine, digging into the future of the human body, and how it co...
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Netflix isn't planning to use generative AI as the backbone of its content but believes the technology has potential as a tool to make creatives more efficient.
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YouTube’s detection technology identifies and manages AI-generated content featuring the likeness of creators, such as their face and voice.
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Aura, founded by early Twitter employees, has launched the $499 Ink frame, its first 13-inch color e-paper photo frame. Using Spectra 6 e-ink technology, it offers a cordless design with up to three months of battery life and a subtle front light for better contrast.
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The astonishing embryo models of Jacob Hanna Instead of relying on the same old recipe biology has followed for a billion years, give or take, stem-cell scientist...
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle The news: Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of...
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Listers understands how technology can corrupt our leisure activities.
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Neobanks are venturing into telecom through MVNO models, using eSIM technology to link mobile connectivity with digital financial ecosystems.
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More than 14,000 websites were seen distributing malware with the help of blockchain technology.
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Large language models are currently everyone's solution to everything. The technology's versatility is part of its appeal: the use cases for generative AI seem both huge and endless. But then you use the stuff, and not enough of it works very well. And you wonder what we're really accomplishing here...
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. From slop to Sotheby’s? AI art enters a new phase In this era of AI slop, the idea that generative AI tools like Midjourney and Runway could be used to make art c...
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Sora's launch has stirred fervent public debate around the dangers of AI-generated videos and how platforms should implement guardrails around the technology.
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It wasn’t the first watchmaker to release a wristworn calculator, but by making them affordable, Casio’s calculator watches became an icon of ‘80s technology. It was even the timepiece of choice for Back to the Future’s Marty McFly, and as 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of that film’s release, Casi...
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess An emerging field of science is seeking to use cell analysis to predict what kind of a person an emb...
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Sucking carbon pollution out of the atmosphere is becoming a big business—companies are paying top dollar for technologies that can cancel out their own emissions. Today, nearly 70% of announced carbon removal contracts are for one technology: bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). Basic...
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Data privacy is not solely about technology – it also requires coordination among legal, compliance, and business units.
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Big Tech’s big bet on a controversial carbon removal tactic Microsoft, JP MorganChase, and a tech company consortium that includes Alphabet, Meta, Shopify, and St...
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