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The two words that pushed international climate talks into overtime
If you’ve tuned out news from the summit, I don’t really blame you. The quibbles over wording—“urges” vs.…
Vertex will pay Editas Medicine and the Broad Institute millions for rights…
The patent on CRISPR has been the fulcrum off a decade-long legal fight after the Broad Institute, a research…
The Download: carbon removal concerns, and Yahoo’s China controversy
The carbon removal industry is just starting to take off, but some experts are warning that it’s already headed…
Yahoo’s decades-long China controversy and the responsibility of tech…
What was particularly astonishing to me was that after all these efforts, the fund still remains incredibly…
Two former Department of Energy staffers warn we’re doing carbon removal…
“CDR cannot succeed at restorative and reparative goals if it is controlled by the same forces that created the…
Mapping the micro and macro of biology with spatial omics and AI
With these two technologies developing in tandem, the opportunities for AI-driven biological discoveries from…
The Download: Yahoo’s misdeeds in China, and AI Act takeaways
When you think of Big Tech these days, Yahoo is probably not top of mind. But for Chinese dissident Xu Wanping,…
Inside the decades-long fight over Yahoo’s misdeeds in China
In many ways, the situation Yahoo found itself in 20 years ago is the same one today’s biggest tech giants…
Five things you need to know about the EU’s new AI Act
The AI Act was conceived as a landmark bill that would mitigate harm in areas where using AI poses the biggest…
Human brain cells hooked up to a chip can do speech recognition
With Brainoware, Guo aimed to use actual brain cells to send and receive information. When the researchers…