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In a public interview, Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui said he is receiving offers of financial support from figures in the US. He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 ...

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‘Schrep’ talks geoengineering, glaciers, and where he draws the line between climate philanthropy and investment. As the pandemic locked down cities in early 2020, Mike Schroepfer, then the ...

For robots to move beyond warehouses and into homes, they’ll need to navigate using more than just vision. Most AI-powered robots today use cameras to understand their surroundings and learn new ...

The technique has been used throughout history, but now could be a tool in one of the biggest fights in artificial intelligence. Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, content creators ...

The White House’s voluntary AI commitments have brought better red-teaming practices and watermarks, but no meaningful transparency or accountability. One year ago, on July 21, 2023, seven ...

Natel Energy is trying to design turbines that are safer for fish passing through. Hydropower is the world’s leading source of renewable electricity, generating more power in 2022 than all other ...

As junk web pages written by AI proliferate, the models that rely on that data will suffer. AI models work by training on huge swaths of data from the internet. But as AI is increasingly being ...

How companies reach their emissions goals is more important than how fast. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand ...

Urban Sky will deploy high-altitude balloons over Colorado this year to prove out an inexpensive way to spot wildfires taking hold. This August, strange balloons will drift high above Colorado.

The company wants to build a computer containing up to 1 million qubits on a Chicago campus. The quantum computing firm PsiQuantum is partnering with the state of Illinois to build the largest US ...