Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s cofounder and chief scientist, is no longer focusing on building the next generation of his company’s flagship generative AI models. Instead his new...
The news: The gene-editing technology CRISPR has been used to change the genes of human babies, to modify animals, and to treat people with sickle-cell disease....
For all of history we’ve turned to technology, again and again, to help us solve our hardest problems. It has made virtually all of human knowledge...
What’s happening: A new tool lets artists make invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped...
Emily Pilloton-Lam didn’t grow up in a particularly handy household, but she did spend hours outside building treehouses out of logs and sticks. After years studying...
Despite the burgeoning interest in deep space exploration and settlement, prompted in part by billionaires such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, we still know very...
Between July and September this year, actors in the US were invited to participate in an unusual research project, designed to capture their voices, faces, movements,...
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. Why New York City...
History is rich with examples of people trying to breathe life into inanimate objects, and of people selling hacks and tricks as “magic.” But this very...
When Dina Radenkovic, CEO of Gameto, a startup engineering stem cells to craft a lightweight version of IVF, injected herself with a needle loaded with hormones...