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Plus: Neuralink has been cleared to start clinical trials in humans 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. A brain implant changed her life. Then it was removed against her will.Sticking an electrode inside a person’s brain can do more
Read morePlus: generative AI is already being used to create child abuse imagery 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. Everything you need to know about the wild world of alternative jet fuels The aviation industry is responsible for about 3%
Read morePlus: what brain waves can tell us about chronic pain 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. Food delivery by drone is just part of daily life in Shenzhen —Zeyi Yang In a buzzy urban area in Shenzhen, China, I
Read moreThis 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. Your digital life isn’t as permanent as you think it is Earlier this week, Google announced its intention to start deleting personal accounts that haven’t been active in over two years in December.
Read morePlus: Montana has banned TikTok across the state 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. Future space food could be made from astronaut breath The future of space food could be as simple—and weird—as a protein shake made with astronaut
Read morePlus: AI chatbots can sway own opinions—if we let them 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. Catching bad content in the age of AI Big Tech is surprisingly bad at catching, labeling, and removing harmful content. In theory, new
Read moreThis 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. The open-source AI boom is built on Big Tech’s handouts. How long will it last? Last week a leaked memo reported to have been written by Luke Sernau, a senior engineer at Google
Read moreThis 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. Google is throwing generative AI at everything The news: Google is stuffing powerful new AI tools into tons of its existing products and launching a slew of new ones, including a coding assistant
Read morePlus: The FDA has approved a first-of-its-kind vaccine 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. Doctors have performed brain surgery on a fetus in one of the first operations of its kind What’s happened: A seven-week-old baby girl is one
Read morePlus: A contraceptive vaccine is on the horizon 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. How chemists could give new life to old wind turbine blades The news: Wind turbines are crucial for addressing climate change, but when they’ve reached
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