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Power with purpose

Power with purpose

Baafour Asiamah-Adjei ’03 is the founder and CEO of one of Ghana’s largest private power companies, Genser Energy—an entrepreneurial engineer who aims to deliver sustainable energy across West Africa. And he credits MIT with much of his success. But when he was applying to colleges, the Institute...

How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters

How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters

The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in January 2025 left an indelible mark on the Southern California landscape. The Eaton and Palisades fires raged for 24 days, killing 29 people and destroying 16,000 structures, with losses estimated at $60 billion. More than 55,000 acres were...

Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI

Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI

In October, a new academic conference will debut that’s unlike any other. Agents4Science is a one-day online event that will encompass all areas of science, from physics to medicine. All of the work shared will have been researched, written, and reviewed primarily by AI, and will be presented using...

The Download: Ukraine’s Starlink repair shop, and predicting solar storms

The Download: Ukraine’s Starlink repair shop, and predicting solar storms

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. On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop Starlink is absolutely critical to Ukraine’s ability to continue in the fight against Russia....

On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop

On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop

Oleh Kovalskyy thinks that Starlink terminals are built as if someone assembled them with their feet. Or perhaps with their hands behind their back.  To demonstrate this last image, Kovalskyy—a large, 47-year-old Ukrainian, clad in sweatpants and with tattoos stretching from his wrists up to...

The Download: churches in the age of AI, and how to run an LLM at home

The Download: churches in the age of AI, and how to run an LLM at home

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. How churches use data and AI as engines of surveillance On a Sunday morning in a Midwestern megachurch, worshippers step through sliding glass doors...

Firefox 142.0 : quoi de neuf dans les DevTools ?

Firefox 142.0 : quoi de neuf dans les DevTools ?

Firefox 142 est disponible depuis quelques heures. Comme à chaque version, quelques nouveautés nous attendent du côté développeur :- support des API wllama pour les extensions : les développeurs peuvent utiliser un LLM local dans leurs extensions- le debugger possède de nouveaux paramètres quand...

The Download: clean energy progress, and OpenAI’s trilemma

The Download: clean energy progress, and OpenAI’s trilemma

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. How to make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike —Joshua A. Basseches is the David and Jane Flowerree Assistant...

How to make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike

How to make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike

The second Trump administration is proving to be more disastrous for the climate and the clean energy economy than many had feared.  Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act repealed most of the clean energy incentives in former president Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Meanwhile, his...

L'Allemagne veut criminaliser les bloqueurs de pub

L'Allemagne veut criminaliser les bloqueurs de pub

Le tribunal fédéral allemand (BGH pour les intimes) vient de relancer une bataille juridique vieille de 11 ans entre le géant des médias Axel Springer et Eyeo, les créateurs d’Adblock Plus. En effet, selon The Register, le BGH estime que les bloqueurs de pub pourraient violer le droit...