Is Buying Costco’s Platinum Bars a Good Investment? Here’s What Experts Say.
The platinum bars are for sale on Costco’s website for $1,089.99.
The Download: AI tracking birds, and a pig kidney transplant
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. AI is changing how we study bird migration In a warming world, migratory birds face many existential threats. Scientists rely on a combination of methods to track the timing and location of their…
7 Hispanic Business Leaders Reveal Their Top Advice For Taking Your Company From Zero to Success
These seven Hispanic CEOs and founders are sharing the insights that helped them go from starting from scratch to running successful businesses — and you can apply these lessons to your journey today.
Here’s How You Can Cut Your Coding Time in Half
MS Visual Studio helps you code smarter.
The Download: training robots with gen AI, and the state of climate tech
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. AI-generated images can teach robots how to act Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, and they’ve recently been used for everything from highlighting their own inherent bias…
This 20-Year-Old Student Started a Side Hustle With $400 — and It Earned $150,000 Over the Summer
Jacob Shaidle launched his barbecue cleaning business Shaidle Cleaning in 2021 when he was just 15.
These 15 companies are innovating in climate tech
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s finally here! We’ve just unveiled our 2024 list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch. This annual project is one the climate team at MIT Technology Review pours a lot of…
AI-generated images can teach robots how to act
Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, and they’ve recently been used for everything from highlighting their own inherent bias to preserving precious memories. Now, researchers from Stephen James’s Robot Learning Lab in London are using image-generating AI models for a new purpose: creating training data for robots. They’ve developed…
Is Bank of America Still Down? Thousands of Users Report Mass Outage — Here’s What We Know
Users across the country are reporting issues accessing their accounts — with some showing $0 balances.
Tesla Sales Show Demand Could Be Speeding Up For Electric Cars
Tesla’s most recent earnings report shows the EV maker is selling more cars now than it was last year.
3 Ways To Make Sure AI Doesn’t Take Your Job
Here’s how to thrive (not just survive) during the ‘Great AI Reskill.’