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The Download: Clear’s identity ambitions, and the climate blame game

But assigning responsibility is complicated. These three visualizations help explain why. —Casey Crownhart Cyber Week Sale: subscriptions are half price!...

Who’s to blame for climate change? It’s surprisingly complicated.

Even then, though, there’s another factor to consider: population. Dividing a country’s total emissions by its population reveals how the average individual in...

Roundtables: What’s Next for Mixed Reality: Glasses, Goggles, and More

Recorded on November 19, 2024 What’s Next for Mixed Reality: Glasses, Goggles, and More. Speakers: Mat Honan, Editor in Chief, and James O’Donnell, AI hardware...

Food and Grace

I stumbled on a post on X this morning, a commentary on the photo of RFK eating food from McDonalds that has been...

The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of social

For example, Bluesky is great for breaking news because it does not deprioritize links and defaults to a social graph that shows...

The Download: Bluesky’s rapid rise, and harmful fertility stereotypes

I won’t spoil the movie for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet (although I should warn that it is not for the...

Bluesky account

I’ve had a Bluesky account for over a year, but never posted much on it. Recently I noticed I’d gotten more followers on...

Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind”

Neuronpedia, a platform for mechanistic interpretability, partnered with DeepMind in July to build a demo of Gemma Scope that you can play...

What’s on the table at this year’s UN climate conference

As I covered last week, Trump’s election will almost certainly result in less progress on cutting emissions than we might have seen...

The Download: Diversifying AI voices, and a science-fiction glimpse into the future

The big story How environmental DNA is giving scientists a new way to understand our world February 2024Environmental DNA...

Why the term “women of childbearing age” is problematic for research and health advice

This lack of research goes some way to explaining why women are much more likely to experience side effects from drugs—some of...

GPS satellite orbits

GPS satellites all orbit at the same altitude. According to the FAA, GPS satellites fly in circular orbits at an altitude of 10,900 nautical...

How this grassroots effort could make AI voices more diverse

Ryakitimbo has collected voice data in Kiswahili in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She tells me she wanted to...

The Download: understanding AI, and what to expect from the UN’s climate conference

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. Google DeepMind...
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