Category: 3. Tech

We are entering the third phase of generative AI. First came the chatbots, followed by the assistants. Now we are beginning to see agents: systems that aspire to greater autonomy and can work in “teams” or use tools to accomplish complex…

Brazilian laws prohibit outsiders from contacting remote Indigenous tribes in the…

Netflix is often considered an essential streaming service—arguably the most…

Just two years ago, students in China were told to avoid using AI for their assignments. At the time, to get around a national block on ChatGPT, students had to buy a mirror-site version from a secondhand marketplace. Its use was common, but it…

However, there’s a crucial difference. While many educators in the West see AI as a threat they have to manage, more Chinese classrooms are treating it as a skill to be mastered. In fact, as the Chinese-developed model DeepSeek gains in…

The alchemist’s dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done?

The physics needed to explain how to change one element into another is well
understood and has been used for decades in accelerators and colliders, which smash…

A new type of 3D printer could help households do their part to reduce food waste…

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Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump administration’s dismantling of federal programs will obscure the nation’s contributions to climate change.

The Data…