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The Download: Organoid uses, and open source voting machines
How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections While vendors pitched their latest voting…
The many uses of mini-organs
An ultrasound, for example, might reveal that a fetus’s kidneys are smaller than they should be, but absent a…
A plan to bring down drug prices could threaten America’s technology boom
All told, the law sparked a national innovation renaissance that continues to this day. In 2002, the Economist…
How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections
The VotingWorks model won over some machine skeptics at the Concord event, like Tim Cahill, a Republican in the…
The Download: Hydropower’s rocky path ahead, and how to reverse…
Hydropower is one of the world’s largest sources of renewable electricity.But last year, weather conditions…
Emissions hit a record high in 2023. Blame hydropower.
But last year, weather conditions caused hydropower to fall short in a major way, with generation dropping by a…
The Download: AI comics, and US tensions with China over EVs
—Will Douglas Heaven Thirteen years ago, as an assignment for a journalism class, I wrote a stupid short story…
Chinese EVs have entered center stage in US-China tensions
Last Thursday, the Biden administration announced it would investigate the security risks posed by Chinese-made…
I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too
The narrator sits on the floor and eats breakfast with the cats. LORE MACHINE / WILL DOUGLAS HEAVEN After…
The Download: rise of the robots, and what organoids can teach us
—This is an excerpt from a new book, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, by MIT CSAIL…