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Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check

Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check

Jim Franke pulls away the cover page of a presentation on the wraparound desk in his office, revealing an illustration of an odd-­looking aircraft with massive wings stretching out from a stubby fuselage. The uncrewed plane is soaring thousands of meters higher than commercial jets fly—so high you...

Five things you need to know about AI

Five things you need to know about AI

At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know about AI,” in which I shared what I think are the biggest themes in AI right now. I pulled a few things from our first AI10 list, an annual guide to the most important trends in this buzzy world, but I also veered off on a...

The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything

The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything

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. Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist A few months before he won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu...

10 sites pour jouer aux jeux DOS dans votre navigateur gratuitement

10 sites pour jouer aux jeux DOS dans votre navigateur gratuitement

DOOM, Fallout, Theme Hospital, Civilization... il y a sur le web des milliers de jeux DOS jouables directement dans votre navigateur, gratuitement, sans installer quoi que ce soit. Car oui mes amis, l'émulation DOS dans le browser a vraiment mûri, et il existe des dizaines de bons sites qui vous...

The case for fixing everything

The case for fixing everything

The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance.” One of Brand’s several biographers described him as a mainstay of both...

The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people sheltered at home and shifted to remote work. Air travel collapsed. Cities—normally filled with the...

Constellations

Constellations

I. We had crash-landed on the planet. We were far from home. The spaceship could not be repaired, and the rescue beacon had failed. Besides me, only the astrogator, part of the captain, and the ship’s AI mind were left.  Outside, the atmosphere registered as hostile to most organisms. We...

The Download: AI’s role in the Iran war, and an escalating legal fight

The Download: AI’s role in the Iran war, and an escalating legal fight

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 AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater  Much of the spotlight on AI in the Iran conflict has focused on models like Claude...

The Download: humans in space, and India’s thorium ambitions

The Download: humans in space, and India’s thorium ambitions

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 case against humans in space Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space...

The Download: America’s drone brothers, and an upside of AI doomerism

The Download: America’s drone brothers, and an upside of AI doomerism

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 these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion In 2024 alone, 350 known drone incursions were reported over a...