
Podcasts of the Year: Talking to Animals with Artificial Intelligence
Advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could have us at the brink of interspecies communication

Podcasts of the Year: Talking to Animals with Artificial Intelligence
Advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could have us at the brink of interspecies communication

EV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anyway
Fixing car and e-bike batteries saves money and resources, but challenges are holding back the industry


AI Beats Humans on Unsolved Math Problem
Large language model does better than human mathematicians trying to solve combinatorics problems inspired by the card game Set

How Search Engines Boost Misinformation
Data voids in search results can lead down rabbit holes that bolster belief in fake news

Scientists Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades
A team of scientists has figured out how to convert planet-warming carbon dioxide into a harmless powdery fuel that could be converted into clean electricity

New Class of Antibiotics Discovered Using AI
A deep-learning algorithm helped identify new compounds that are effective against antibiotic-resistant infections in mice, opening the door to AI-guided drug discovery

Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

Technology Is Secretly Stealing Your Time. Here’s How to Get It Back
Technology is supposed to save us time, right? Turns out, it’s stealing some of our most precious time, but it’s not too late to get it back

This Filipina Physicist Helped Develop a Top Secret Weapon
Emma Unson Rotor worked on the proximity fuze, a groundbreaking piece of World War II weapons technology that the U.S. War Department called “second only to the atomic bomb.”

Buying Used Tech This Holiday Season Can Avert Human Rights Abuses
Here’s how to buy ethical tech and keep conflict minerals in the ground

How To Keep AI From Stealing the Sound of Your Voice
A new technology called AntiFake prevents the theft of the sound of your voice by making it more difficult for AI tools to analyze vocal recordings

OpenAI’s Soap Opera Collapse Bodes Ill for AI Benefiting Humanity
Whatever fantasies we may have had about the nonprofit structure of OpenAI have been eviscerated. While it remains a nonprofit, it’s proven entirely beholden to ruthless capitalism