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2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Pano AI and its fire-detecting AI
When blazes are confirmed, Pano alerts fire monitoring agencies, providing images and location data that help…
The Download: Smart glasses, and tiny AI models
In case you missed the memo, we are barreling toward the next big consumer device category: smart glasses. At…
Why bigger is not always better in AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your…
The coolest thing about smart glasses is not the AR. It’s the AI.
Both Meta and Snap have now put their glasses in the hands of (or maybe on the faces of) reporters. And both…
The Download: How to break up with coal, and AI’s false climate…
September 2022—Anna Louie Sussman Like me, my eggs were flying economy class. They were ensconced in a…
The UK is done with coal. How’s the rest of the world doing?
A tale of two coal declines The power plant, scheduled to shut down at midnight on September 30, is called…
Sorry, AI won’t “fix” climate change
“As long as we effectively subsidize fossil fuels by allowing them to use the atmosphere as a waste dump, we are…
The Download: Safer space travel, and generative AI in video games
Long-distance space travel can wreak havoc on human health. There’s radiation and microgravity to contend with,…
Space travel is dangerous. Could genetic testing and gene editing make it…
Whether people are going into space as tourists, employees, scientists, or research subjects, figuring out how…
The Download: A CRISPR patent battle, and the promise of tiny AI
In the decade-long fight to control CRISPR, the super-tool for modifying DNA, it’s been common for lawyers to…