Browse Facebook Marketplace and you’ll encounter an assortment of odd finds: vintage lamps, used socks, a car engulfed in flames. Dom Robinson found a…
Category: 3. Tech
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Driving business value by optimizing the cloud
At the same time, hosted services like generative AI and tailored industry solutions can help companies quickly launch applications and grow the business. To get the most out of these services, companies are turning to cloud optimization—the…
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The Download: Apple’s eucalyptus carbon bet, and climate tech’s bad vibes
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.
Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
“We were losing the…
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World’s largest solar telescope shows off its full force with new image
The record-breaking Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has captured another stunningly close look at the surface of our sun. DKIST has collected
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The vibes are shifting for US climate tech
There are still projects moving forward, but these cancellations definitely aren’t a good sign. And now we have tariffs to think about, adding additional layers of expense and, worse, uncertainty. (Businesses, especially those whose plans…
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Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
Eucalyptus has become the region’s new lifeblood. “I’m going to plant some eucalyptus / I’ll get rich and you’ll fall in love with me,” sings a local country duo. PABLO ALBARENGA
The tour bus was standing by to take the workers…
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AI still can’t beat humans at reading social cues
AI models have progressed rapidly in recent years and can already outperform humans in various tasks, from generating basic code to dominating games like…
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Roundtables: Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Promise to Product
Speakers: David Rotman, editor at large, and Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine.
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been crowned the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2025 by MIT Technology Review‘s readers. BCIs are electrodes…
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Experts Sound the Alarm: Your DNA Could Be Hacked
The first comprehensive review of cyber-biosecurity risks has been released. Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS), the same technology driving advancements in personalized medicine, cancer diagnostics, infectious disease monitoring, and genetic…
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The Download: Introducing the Creativity issue
How gamification took over the world
It’s a thought that occurs to every video-game player at some point: What if the weird, hyper-focused state I enter when playing in virtual worlds could somehow be applied to the real one?
Often pondered…
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