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The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”

The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”

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. What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies? When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him how to calm down when he was anxious or mad. Six years...

The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells

The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells

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. Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash The police-tech giant Flock is changing officers’ access to its...

The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice

The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice

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 kids feel about AI, in their own words —Jen Swetzoff and Keeley McNamara, the founding editors of Anyway, an independent print magazine for...

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up CliffsNotes or programmed formulas into their TI-82s, and others to share inspiring ways...

These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs

These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put out a paper called “Attention Is All You Need,” in which they...

Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward

As of this week in Montana, any biotech company with an experimental drug has a clear path to selling it to consumers. Companies whose drugs have been through preliminary testing—sometimes in as few as 10 healthy people—can pay $12,500 to apply to a newly established review board for approval. Once...

Portable et cancer du cerveau - L'OMS a fini de chercher

Portable et cancer du cerveau - L'OMS a fini de chercher

Depuis 30 ans, vous vous demandez peut-être si coller un téléphone contre votre oreille peut finir par vous refiler une tumeur au cerveau ? Hé bien l'OMS a voulu en avoir le cœur net et a commandé 13 grandes enquêtes sur la question. Et youpiiii, elles viennent toutes d'aboutir et de sortir, et le...

Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group

Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group

Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic in the Netherlands using sperm provided by an anonymous donor. After the Netherlands banned anonymous donation in 2004, the doctor who ran the clinic destroyed records that might...

Job titles of the future: Nature’s drug designer

Job titles of the future: Nature’s drug designer

In 2018, after nearly two decades working in Big Pharma, chemist Tim Cernak was ready to put his skills to a new use.  For Merck, he’d developed precision therapies for cancer, HIV, and diabetes that could target disease while minimizing harm to healthy cells. But as a lifelong nature lover,...

Il fabrique de l'essence à partir de gaz dans son labo

Il fabrique de l'essence à partir de gaz dans son labo

Le bricoleur qui anime la chaîne YouTube Marb's Lab a présenté dans sa dernière vidéo un montage de verrerie de laboratoire qui transforme un simple gaz en carburant liquide, reproduisant le procédé Fischer-Tropsch, du nom des deux chimistes allemands Franz Fischer et Hans Tropsch qui l'ont mis au...

The world is on track to miss its health targets

The world is on track to miss its health targets

Every year the World Health Organization publishes a global health statistics report. It features the numbers behind world health trends and, importantly, assesses whether we’re on track to reach ambitious goals set in 2015. It’s a bit like a health grade. The 2026 report was published on...

A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial

A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial

Varda Space Industries, a startup that’s been pitching its ability to perform drug experiments in space, says it has signed up the pharmaceutical company United Therapeutics in what may be remembered as a notable step toward in-orbit manufacturing. The idea of building things in outer space for use...