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The Download: our thawing permafrost, and a drone-filled future

The Download: our thawing permafrost, and a drone-filled future

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. Scientists can see Earth’s permafrost thawing from space Something is rotten in the city of Nunapitchuk. In recent years, sewage has leached into the...

Scientists can see Earth’s permafrost thawing from space

Scientists can see Earth’s permafrost thawing from space

Something is rotten in the city of Nunapitchuk. In recent years, a crack has formed in the middle of a house. Sewage has leached into the earth. Soil has eroded around buildings, leaving them perched atop precarious lumps of dirt. There are eternal puddles. And mold. The ground can feel squishy,...

The US may be heading toward a drone-filled future

The US may be heading toward a drone-filled future

On Thursday, I published a story about the police-tech giant Flock Safety selling its drones to the private sector to track shoplifters. Keith Kauffman, a former police chief who now leads Flock’s drone efforts, described the ideal scenario: A security team at a Home Depot, say, launches a drone...

Coming soon: Our 2025 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch

Coming soon: Our 2025 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch

The need to cut emissions and adapt to our warming world is growing more urgent. This year, we’ve seen temperatures reach record highs, as they have nearly every year for the last decade. Climate-fueled natural disasters are affecting communities around the world, costing billions of dollars. ...

SimpleFold - Un labo de biologie moléculaire qui tourne sur un simple Macbook Pro

SimpleFold - Un labo de biologie moléculaire qui tourne sur un simple Macbook Pro

Apple vient de sortir un truc énorme et je pense que personne n’a encore capté cette folie. Leur équipe de recherche en machine learning a publié SimpleFold , un modèle d’IA pour prédire la structure des protéines. Jusque-là, rien de révolutionnaire me direz-vous car AlphaFold de Google...

L'API qui manquait à Ollama pour concurrencer ChatGPT est enfin là !!

L'API qui manquait à Ollama pour concurrencer ChatGPT est enfin là !!

Ce qui est super relou avec les IA qu’on peut utiliser en local, genre avec Ollama, c’est que si on lui demande des infos un peu trop récente, ça nous sort des vieux chiffres de 2023 avec la confiance d’un vendeur de voitures d’occasion. Bon bah ça, c’est fini...

The Download: shoplifter-chasing drones, and Trump’s TikTok deal

The Download: shoplifter-chasing drones, and Trump’s TikTok deal

Shoplifters in the US could soon be chased down by drones The news: Flock Safety, whose drones were once reserved for police departments, is now offering them for private-sector security, the company has announced. Potential customers include businesses trying to curb shoplifting.  How it...

Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones

Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones

Once reserved for police departments, Flock Safety is now offering its drones for private-sector security, the company announced today, including for businesses intent on curbing shoplifting.  Companies in the US can now place Flock’s drone docking stations on their premises. If the company...

Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, signed a billion-dollar deal to buy electricity from the facility. One small detail? That reactor doesn’t exist...

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything. It had to go, he thought, if it had any chance of surviving. Wehr, who’s 26, isn’t from Greenland—he grew up in Germany—but he had become obsessed with the...