Category: 3. Tech

How could climate change worsen over the next 1,000 years and what steps can be taken to mitigate its impact? This is what a recent study published in Environmental Research Letters hopes to address as a team…

The new model makes progress on technical issues that have plagued AI image generators for years. While most have been great at creating fantastical images or realistic deepfakes, they’ve been terrible at something called binding, which refers…

When testing out a McLaren supercar out in the wild, expect attention. Lots of it. People ask what you do for a living, middle school students stop in their tracks to stare and take video, and fellow motorists wave on the highway. The…

Beyond the laboratories that process the saliva samples, the company does not share customer information with anyone else unless the user has given permission for it to do so, the spokesperson says, including employers, insurance companies, law…

Brain implants seem to offer many possibilities for patients with neurological problems. They may be able to help reduce seizures in people with epilepsy, bring sight to people who are blind, or restore…

Even if it all works, it may not be practical or economical to “grow” bodyoids, possibly for many years, until they can be mature enough to be useful for our ends. Each of these questions will require substantial research and time. But we…

A few weeks ago, when I was at the digital rights conference RightsCon in Taiwan, I watched in real time as civil society organizations from around the world, including the US, grappled with the loss of one of the biggest funders of global…