Biden’s hugely consequential high-tech export ban on China, explained by an expert
One month ago, the US Commerce Department issued an exceptionally broad set of prohibitions on exports…
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Mass layoffs and general chaos: How Elon Musk is changing Twitter
Elon Musk has only been in charge of Twitter since late October. But already, he’s turned…
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Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation
Enlarge / AI-generated portraits of Slavoj Žižek and Werner Herzog from The Infinite Conversation. Giacomo Miceli…
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The Download: Twitter’s user exodus, and fixing bridges
This story is from The Checkup, our new weekly newsletter covering everything you need to know…
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Here’s how personalized brain stimulation could treat depression
The resulting mood decoder enabled the researchers to identify how each of the volunteers was feeling…
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OpenAI debuts DALL-E API so devs can integrate its AI artwork into their apps
Enlarge / Variations of “a photo of a happy corgi puppy with fancy sunglasses on sitting…
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The FCC wants to regulate space. Have fun!
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to open a bureau specifically devoted to space. This new…
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Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Elon Musk took over
From October 27 through November 1, Bot Sentinel found that 11,535 accounts they were monitoring had…
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The Download: updates from our flagship EmTech event, and cleaning up the grid
Which technologies are creating new opportunities for our planet, our bodies and our businesses? That question…
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New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later
Enlarge / Rewind reportedly lets you search your Mac’s usage history for what you’ve seen, said,…
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Accelerating the energy transition with Web3 technologies
“We are witnessing a paradigm shift from a centralized internet world to a decentralized one, which…
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In-Depth Admin Exploration: Shopify Collections
In the following article, we explain what collections on Shopify are. Our guide explores two major…
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Elizabeth Warren wants to keep Big Tech from taking over your car
Elizabeth Warren has a new Big Tech target: its growing presence in our cars. The Democratic…
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Meta’s AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3
Enlarge / An illustrated depiction of data in an audio wave. reader comments 99 with 85…
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Who’s winning, and losing, in the Elon Twitter era
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has been chaotic, to say the least. He repeatedly changed his…
