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Why EV charging needs more than Tesla

May 9, 2024
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Tesla, the world’s largest EV maker, laid off its entire charging team last week.  The timing of this move is absolutely baffling. We desperately need many more EV chargers to come online…

Always-on video portal lets people in NYC and Dublin interact in real time

May 8, 2024

A new sculpture going live on Wednesday in the Flatiron South Public Plaza in New York is not your typical artwork. It combines technology, sociology, anthropology and art to let people interact with one another in real time in two places. In this case, it’s between New York City and Dublin. The Portal itself is […]

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Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life

May 8, 2024
Google DeepMind has released an improved version of its biology prediction tool, AlphaFold, that can predict the structures not only of proteins but of nearly all the elements of biological life. It’s a development that could help accelerate drug discovery and other scientific research. The tool is currently being used to experiment with identifying everything…

The top 3 ways to use generative AI to empower knowledge workers 

May 8, 2024
Though generative AI is still a nascent technology, it is already being adopted by teams across companies to unleash new levels of productivity and creativity. Marketers are deploying generative AI to create personalized customer journeys. Designers are using the technology to boost brainstorming and iterate between different content layouts more quickly. The future of technology is exciting,…

Multimodal: AI’s new frontier

May 8, 2024
Multimodality is a relatively new term for something extremely old: how people have learned about the world since humanity appeared. Individuals receive information from myriad sources via their senses, including sight, sound, and touch. Human brains combine these different modes of data into a highly nuanced, holistic picture of reality. “Communication between humans is multimodal,”…

The Download: deepfakes of the dead, and why it’s time to embrace fake meat

May 8, 2024
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. Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business Once a week, Sun Kai has a video call with his mother, and they discuss his day-to-day life. But Sun’s mother died…

China has a flourishing market for deepfakes that clone the dead

May 8, 2024
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. If you could talk again to someone you love who has passed away, would you? For a long time, this has been a hypothetical question. No longer.  Deepfake technologies have evolved to…

The way whales communicate is closer to human language than we realized

May 7, 2024
Sperm whales are fascinating creatures. They possess the biggest brain of any species, six times larger than a human’s, which scientists believe may have evolved to support intelligent, rational behavior. They’re highly social, capable of making decisions as a group, and they exhibit complex foraging behavior.   But there’s also a lot we don’t know about…

Deepfakes of the dead are a growing Chinese business

May 7, 2024
Once a week, Sun Kai has a video call with his mother. He opens up about work, the pressures he faces as a middle-aged man, and thoughts that he doesn’t even discuss with his wife. His mother will occasionally make a comment, like telling him to take care of himself—he’s her only child. But mostly,…

Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring

May 7, 2024

Motional, the autonomous vehicle startup borne out of a $4 billion joint venture between Hyundai and automotive supplier Aptiv, will pause its commercial operations and delay plans to launch a driverless service as it undergoes a restructuring, TechCrunch has learned. The aim is make progress on technology and the business model, while preserving capital, according […]

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