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How rerouting planes to produce fewer contrails could help cool the planet
For one thing, Barrett says, researchers still need to test, refine, and engineer systems that can reliably…
Why we need better defenses against VR cyberattacks
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your…
LLMs become more covertly racist with human intervention
Even when the two sentences had the same meaning, the models were more likely to apply adjectives like “dirty,”…
VR headsets can be hacked with an Inception-style attack
In the attack, hackers create an app that injects malicious code into the Meta Quest VR system and then launch…
An OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like…
The new model, called RFM-1, was trained on years of data collected from Covariant’s small fleet of…
The Download: rise of the multimodal robots, and the SEC’s new…
The news: In the summer of 2021, OpenAI quietly shuttered its mulrobotics team, announcing that progress was…
The SEC’s new climate rules were a missed opportunity to accelerate…
Investor efforts to evaluate carbon emissions, decarbonization plans, and climate risks through ESG…
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…