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Netflix consolide son infrastructure de données avec AWS Aurora

Netflix consolide son infrastructure de données avec AWS Aurora

Si vous avez suivi notre meetup sur l'infrastructure logicielle de Netflix, vous savez que le service de streaming utilise de nombreuses technologies pour le front et le back. Un des éléments cruciaux est l'infrastructure de bases de données relationnelles. L'équipe Online Data Stores annonce...

Welcome to Kenya’s Great Carbon Valley: a bold new gamble to fight climate change

Welcome to Kenya’s Great Carbon Valley: a bold new gamble to fight climate change

The earth around Lake Naivasha, a shallow freshwater basin in south-central Kenya, does not seem to want to lie still.  Ash from nearby Mount Longonot, which erupted as recently as the 1860s, remains in the ground. Obsidian caves and jagged stone towers preside over the steam that spurts out...

The Download: China’s dying EV batteries, and why AI doomers are doubling down

The Download: China’s dying EV batteries, and why AI doomers are doubling down

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. China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to bury their batteries. In the past decade, China has seen an EV boom, thanks in part to government...

The Download: the worst technology of 2025, and Sam Altman’s AI hype

The Download: the worst technology of 2025, and Sam Altman’s AI hype

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. The 8 worst technology flops of 2025 Welcome to our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest technologies of the year.We like...

The AI doomers feel undeterred

It’s a weird time to be an AI doomer. This small but influential community of researchers, scientists, and policy experts believes, in the simplest terms, that AI could get so good it could be bad—very, very bad—for humanity. Though many of these people would be more likely to describe themselves...

The Download: expanded carrier screening, and how Southeast Asia plans to get to space

The Download: expanded carrier screening, and how Southeast Asia plans to get to space

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. Expanded carrier screening: Is it worth it? Carrier screening  tests would-be parents for hidden genetic mutations that might affect their children....

How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet

How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet

Stardust Solutions believes that it can solve climate change—for a price. The Israel-based geoengineering startup has said it expects  nations will soon pay it more than a billion dollars a year to launch specially equipped aircraft into the stratosphere. Once they’ve reached the necessary...

The Download: four (still) big breakthroughs, and how our bodies fare in extreme heat

The Download: four (still) big breakthroughs, and how our bodies fare in extreme heat

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. 4 technologies that didn’t make our 2026 breakthroughs list If you’re a longtime reader, you probably know that our newsroom selects 10...

The Download: political chatbot persuasion, and gene editing adverts

The Download: political chatbot persuasion, and gene editing adverts

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. AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements The news: Chatting with a politically biased AI model is more effective...

The ads that sell the sizzle of genetic trait discrimination

The ads that sell the sizzle of genetic trait discrimination

One day this fall, I watched an electronic sign outside the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan switch seamlessly between an ad for makeup and one promoting the website Pickyourbaby.com, which promises a way for potential parents to use genetic tests to influence their baby’s traits,...

The era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin

The era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin

In January 2024, the phone rang in homes all around New Hampshire. On the other end was Joe Biden’s voice, urging Democrats to “save your vote” by skipping the primary. It sounded authentic, but it wasn’t. The call was a fake, generated by artificial intelligence. Today, the technology behind that...