The inside story of New York City’s 34-year-old social network, ECHO (www.technologyreview.com)
Stacy Horn set out to create something new and very New York. She didn’t expect it to last so long.
Some deaf children in China can hear after gene treatment (www.technologyreview.com)
A controversial US surveillance program is up for renewal. Critics are speaking out. (www.technologyreview.com)
Europe is about to crack down on Chinese electric cars (www.technologyreview.com)
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (www.technologyreview.com)
New tool lets artists add invisible changes to their art before uploading it online, making the work useless for AI training (www.technologyreview.com)
The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission....
Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost (www.technologyreview.com)
AI language models are rife with political biases (www.technologyreview.com)
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The world is finally spending more on solar than oil production (www.technologyreview.com)
The International Energy Agency just released its annual investment report. Here’s where the money is going.
New research aims to bring odors into virtual worlds (www.technologyreview.com)
Hydrogen trains could revolutionize how Americans get around (www.technologyreview.com)
Decarbonizing rail transportation is a political problem as much as a technological one.
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed (www.technologyreview.com)
Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via Synthetic Memories, a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, to bring people’s memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has...
Methane leaks in the US are worse than we thought (www.technologyreview.com)
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Why concerns over the sustainability of carbon removal are growing (www.technologyreview.com)
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Trump wants to unravel Biden’s landmark climate law. Here is what’s most at risk. (www.technologyreview.com)
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The rapid adoption of EVs is forcing China to explore Virtual Power Plants. These integrate people's batteries into the national grid and allow them to sell electricity at times of high demand. (www.technologyreview.com)
Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems: Its performance matches the smartest high school mathematicians and is much stronger than the previous state-of-the-art system. (www.technologyreview.com)
Meet the economist who wants the field to account for nature (www.technologyreview.com)
Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem (www.technologyreview.com)
The researchers started by sketching out the problem they wanted to solve in Python, a popular programming language. But they left out the lines in the program that would specify how to solve it. That is where FunSearch comes in. It gets Codey to fill in the blanks—in effect, to suggest code that will solve the problem....
Fossil-fuel emissions are over a million times greater than carbon removal efforts (www.technologyreview.com)
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The University of California has all but dropped carbon offsets—and thinks you should, too (www.technologyreview.com)
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Meta is giving researchers more access to Facebook and Instagram data (www.technologyreview.com)
There’s still so much we don’t know about social media’s impact. But Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg tells MIT Technology Review that he hopes new tools the company just released will start to change that.
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (www.technologyreview.com)
The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.
The growing signs of trouble for global carbon markets | Corporations are backing away from one of their favorite climate remedies as greenwashing concerns steadily mount. (www.technologyreview.com)
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Some deaf children in China can hear after gene treatment (www.technologyreview.com)