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The Download: America’s drone brothers, and an upside of AI doomerism
In 2024 alone, 350 known drone incursions were reported over a hundred different US military installations. A…
How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s…
“We are talking about over the airport, over taxiways, over runways,” Suffolk County’s chief deputy sheriff,…
How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters
“They give us a lay of the land,” he says. “This is what a particular region has been like at this point in…
NASA’s new AI model can predict when a solar storm may strike
Early testing of Surya showed it could predict some solar flares two hours in advance. “It can predict the solar…
Forging connections in space with cellular technology
Nokia's ‘network in a box’ (NIB) was delivered to the…
I gave the police access to my DNA—and maybe some of yours
This process, called forensic investigative genetic genealogy, or FIGG, has since helped solve hundreds of…
The case against humans in space
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, a scholar of religion at Wesleyan University, presents a thorough diagnosis of this exact…
Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI
Building these models took a few months, but Pak says they were very quick at designing candidates for…
The Download: Google’s AI energy expenditure, and handing over DNA…
Google has just released a report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. In total, the…
On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop
Supported by Kutkov’s technical expertise and Stepanets’s organizational prowess, Kovalskyy’s warehouse became…