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. OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher OpenAI has a new grand challenge: building an AI researcher—a fully automated agent-based system capable of tackling large, complex problems by…
In a recent survey, 43% of employed respondents say the week after daylight saving time ends is their most unproductive at work — with 31% admitting they make more mistakes than is typical.
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. The arrhythmia of our current age Arrhythmia means the heart beats, but not in proper time—a critical rhythm of life suddenly going rogue and unpredictable. It’s frightening to experience, but what if it’s…
It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to encode data in DNA. Researchers have been working on DNA-based data storage for decades, but a new template-based method inspired by our cells’ chemical processes is easy enough for even nonscientists to practice. The technique could pave the way for an unusual but…