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. Inside OpenAI’s wild year...
This did not happen because the robot was programmed to do harm. It was because the robot was overly confident that the boy’s finger was a...
For Zernicka-Goetz’s part, she later said on Twitter that her lab’s creations “are not real embryos.” “In response to recent media on my group’s research, I...
On the other end of the spectrum, some crop-based biofuels can actually produce more carbon dioxide emissions overall than fossil fuels, Pavlenko says. That’s frequently the...
The solution, as Weinstein sees it, is to build floating turbines. Offshore wind power is following a progression that oil and gas companies charted with drilling rigs:...
Elon Musk plans to buy Twitter, but he also has many other things on his mind. Read More
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Sometime during 2021, however, a new plan emerged to make the research move even faster by turning the idea into a well-funded company that is now...
U.S. futures are gaining on Monday, as is crypto. Read More