The race to get next-generation solar technology on the market ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1288 words 9 votes
The US Federal Trade Commission made an unprecedented move against data brokers ~tech Article 380 words 20 votes
Cryptography may offer a solution to the massive AI-labeling problem ~tech Article 1125 words 9 votes
We’re about to kill a massive, accidental experiment in reducing global warming (2018) ~enviro climate change pollution.sulfur Article 999 words 15 votes
Teachers in Denmark are using apps to audit their students' moods – some experts are heavily skeptical of the approach ~tech Article 4165 words 7 votes
These new tools let you see for yourself how biased AI image models are ~tech Article 352 words 7 votes
Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives. ~health medicine Article 1264 words 6 votes
Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse - Ultima Online, which just turned 25, offers a lesson in the challenges of building virtual worlds ~games Article 2530 words 12 votes
Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook ~tech privacy facebook social media Article 3590 words 7 votes
LinkedIn users are being scammed of millions of dollars by fake connections ~tech social media Article 2271 words 7 votes
How the idea of a “transgender contagion” went viral—and caused untold harm ~lgbt transgender Article 3073 words 14 votes
Erik Prince wants to sell you a “secure” smartphone that’s too good to be true ~tech security.cyber Article 1768 words 12 votes
The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke ~science Article 6832 words 10 votes
Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever - The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong ~design urban planning Article 2042 words 10 votes
DeepMind worked with UK weather forecasters to create a model that was better at making short term predictions than existing systems ~tech Article 843 words 9 votes
Sophie Zhang risked everything to expose how Facebook enables global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story. ~tech facebook social media Article 3493 words 14 votes
How China turned a prize-winning iPhone hack against the Uyghurs ~tech apple google security Article 1845 words 11 votes
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation ~tech facebook social media Article 6951 words 10 votes
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says. ~tech google Article 1230 words 19 votes
Logging in to get kicked out: Inside America's virtual eviction crisis ~life housing Article 3246 words 7 votes
AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world ~science Article 675 words 6 votes
US Presdient Donald Trump’s antibody treatment was tested using fetal cells obtained through abortion ~health medicine Article 588 words 18 votes
Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid contact-tracing app—and it hasn’t helped much ~health Article 429 words 10 votes
IT is the only department that touches everything. That puts a CIO in an ideal position to help the organization in its pursuit of new business models. ~tech Article 901 words 4 votes
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world ~tech microsoft Article 5935 words 9 votes
Flavor networks reveal universal principle behind successful recipes ~food recipes Article 853 words, published Apr 20 2017 5 votes
The 2010s were another lost decade on climate change ~enviro climate change Article 804 words 19 votes
China’s CRISPR babies: Read exclusive excerpts from the unseen original research ~science biology Article 2143 words 16 votes
Google is going to deploy Loon balloons in rural Peru ~tech internet google Article 357 words 9 votes
Sorry—organic farming is actually worse for climate change ~enviro climate change Article 784 words, published Oct 22 2019 13 votes
Biohackers are pirating a cheap version of a million-dollar gene therapy ~health Article 1475 words, published Aug 30 2019 7 votes
Inside Starshot, the audacious plan to shoot tiny ships to Alpha Centauri ~space astronomy spaceflight rocketry Article 2011 words, published Jun 26 2019 10 votes
How greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry ~enviro energy Article 3096 words, published Apr 22 2019 6 votes