The Download: recycling batteries, and augmented reality hits stores
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Why your iPhone 17 might come with a recycled battery
Lithium-ion...
Making the world a data-driven place with the cloud
Kim: Yeah. This is the really amazing thing about the cloud because once the data's all there, amazing things can be done with it and innovation is happening like crazy....
Toxic chemicals, and Russia’s cyberwar tactics
What are chemical pollutants doing to our bodies? It’s a timely question given that last week, people in Philadelphia cleared grocery shelves of bottled water after a toxic leak from...
Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT—and it wants you to make it...
Google has a lot riding on this launch. Microsoft partnered with OpenAI to make an aggressive play for Google’s top spot in search. Meanwhile, Google blundered straight out of the...
Biased AI warnings, and experimental CRISPR therapies
Meredith Broussard is unusually well placed to dissect the ongoing hype around AI. She’s a data scientist and associate professor at New York University, and she’s been one of the...
The 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2023 takes flight
And Universal Hydrogen is joining the race this week. The company has a test flight planned for its Dash 8-300, a regional aircraft with over 40 seats. The major...
Meet the new batteries unlocking cheaper electric vehicles
“This is a big deal,” said Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer in a press conference unveiling plans for the factory. Expanding battery options will allow Ford to “build more EVs faster,...
ChatGPT’s origins, and making cement greener
We’ve reached peak ChatGPT. Released in December as a web app by the San Francisco–based firm OpenAI, the chatbot exploded into the mainstream almost overnight. According to some estimates,...
Military drones, and forbidden US chips
New report: Generative AI in industrial design and engineering Generative AI has the potential to transform industrial design and engineering, making it more important than ever for...
What Mexico’s planned geoengineering restrictions mean for the future of the field
Luke Iseman, previously a director of hardware at Y Combinator and now the cofounder of a geoengineering startup, says he added a few grams of sulfur dioxide into a pair...
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