In a first, a patient in New Zealand has undergone gene-editing to lower their cholesterol. It could be the beginning of new era in disease prevention. | Continue reading
Open-source code runs on every computer on the planet—and keeps America’s critical infrastructure going. DARPA is worried about how well it can be trusted | Continue reading
A group of over 1,000 AI researchers has created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3—and they’re giving it out for free. | Continue reading
The crypto industry is investing heavily in getting more people to buy in. That doesn't mean you have to. | Continue reading
A new study shows that artificial intelligence can also handle more than half of scans automatically, dramatically reducing radiologists’ workloads. | Continue reading
Tweaking the settings of the cloud service an algorithm runs on can have a big impact, researchers found. But not many people bother to do it. | Continue reading
Activists who flee repression increasingly face zero-click software hacks and other digital threats | Continue reading
The invasion of Ukraine has prompted militaries to update their arsenals—and Silicon Valley stands to capitalize. | Continue reading
Cities won’t encourage more cycling if there’s nowhere to park your bike. This startup wants to change that. | Continue reading
A new design with no moving parts converts heat to electricity more efficiently than a steam turbine and could lead to a fully decarbonized power grid. | Continue reading
The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong. | Continue reading
Prometheus Fuels has struck deals to deliver millions of gallons of carbon-neutral fuel. But it’s years behind schedule, and some doubt it can ever achieve its claims. | Continue reading
Your family and friends will be able to interact with a digital “you” that doles out advice—even when you’re gone. | Continue reading
We asked Meta, Twitter, Google, TikTok, and Reddit how they will moderate abortion content and handle subpoenas and warrants for data on people who seek or assist with abortions. | Continue reading
This year's 35 Innovators are making it possible for familiar materials like glass, steel, and electronics to have completely new properties. | Continue reading
Honorees from this year's 35 Innovators list are employing AI to find new molecules, fold proteins, and analyze massive amounts of medical data. | Continue reading
For Professor Bonnie Berger, SM ’86, PhD ’90, a computational biologist, the explosion of new genomic information offers a gold mine of opportunities. | Continue reading
The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business. | Continue reading
But even if NSO Group is no more, there are plenty of rivals who will rush in to take its place. And the same old problems haven’t gone away. | Continue reading
Hikvision could be sanctioned for aiding the Chinese government’s human rights violations in Xinjiang. Here’s everything you need to know. | Continue reading
One of the godfathers of deep learning pulls together old ideas to sketch out a fresh path for AI, but raises as many questions as he answers. | Continue reading
Local shops are integral to how urban Indians buy fresh food and other essentials. A host of well-funded “quick commerce” companies want to eat their lunch. | Continue reading
The cyborg insects could one day be used in a breath test to screen for disease—or inspire a new type of device. | Continue reading
A draft update of rules would dramatically increase the power of China’s censorship machine, but platforms will pay the price. | Continue reading
The venture-backed startup believes kelp could be a powerful tool to combat climate change. But some scientists fear the ecological risks on large scales. | Continue reading
The mission to improve the widely used simplex-method algorithm showed instead why it works so well. | Continue reading
Can a smartphone-enabled ultrasound machine become medicine’s next stethoscope? | Continue reading
Skip to Content The oil kingdom fears that its population is aging at an accelerated rate and hopes to test drugs to reverse the problem. First up might be the diabetes drug metformin. Anyone who has more money than they know what to do with eventually tries to cure aging.(techno … | Continue reading
New digital technologies are exacerbating inequality. Here’s how scientists creating AI can make better choices. | Continue reading
The apps’ ads openly promise to help people spy on their partners. | Continue reading
The mainstream approach to driverless cars is slow and difficult. These startups think going all-in on AI will get there faster. | Continue reading
Google Brain has revealed its own image-making AI, called Imagen. But don't expect to see anything that isn't wholesome. | Continue reading
Some worry that the chatter about these tools is doing the whole field a disservice. | Continue reading
Digital technology is poised to change our relationship with money and, for some countries, the ability to manage their economies. | Continue reading
Most public health bodies dealing with covid have long since moved on from the idea of surface transmission. China’s didn’t—and that helps it control the narrative about the disease’s origins and danger. | Continue reading
The first transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart into a human may have ended prematurely because of a well-known—and avoidable—risk. | Continue reading
Facebook’s parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3 | Continue reading
It could introduce new security risks while doing little to boost transparency. | Continue reading
Despite millions of dollars in losses, iBuying’s failure doesn’t signal the end of tech-led disruption, just a fumbled beginning. | Continue reading
These clocks promise to measure biological age and help identify anti-aging drugs, but there are lingering questions over their accuracy. | Continue reading
Jennifer Doudna answers our questions. | Continue reading
A video protesting the Shanghai lockdown spread quickly on the app, as Chinese users raced to outwit censors and keep it alive. | Continue reading
A new class of crypto investors have bold plans to rebuild society from scratch. But their pet projects risk repeating the region’s long history of corporate colonialism. | Continue reading
The model could uncover quakes that would previously have been dismissed as human-generated vibrations. | Continue reading
IT asset management needs to keep up. | Continue reading
In Jakarta, ride-hailing giant Gojek’s fleet of motorbike taxi drivers are building worker power through worker community. | Continue reading
Two Dutch researchers have won a major hacking championship by hitting the software that runs the world’s power grids, gas pipelines, and more. It was their easiest challenge yet. | Continue reading