‘Too Soon!’ Starbucks’ Iconic Pumpkin Spice Latte Is Back With a New Fall Menu and Seasonal Treats
It’s the unofficial start of fall — and it keeps getting earlier.
Pairing live support with accurate AI outputs
A live agent spends hours each week manually documenting routine interactions. Another combs through multiple knowledge bases to find the right solution, scrambling to piece it together while the customer waits on hold. A third types out the same response they’ve written dozens of times before. These repetitive tasks can be draining, leaving less time…
This Math Major Recruited by Goldman Sachs Got Well-Acquainted With Corporate America and the ‘Problematic’ Phrase That Undermines Women Leaders — Now She’s Fighting Back
Cassie Burr, co-founder and executive director of the Women on Boards Project, is on a mission to increase women’s representation in the boardroom.
The Download: the future of human evolution, and touch sensing for robots
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. Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution Editing human embryos is restricted in much of the world—and making an edited baby is fully illegal in most countries surveyed by…
We finally have a definition for open-source AI
Open-source AI is everywhere right now. The problem is, no one agrees on what it actually is. Now we may finally have an answer. The Open Source Initiative (OSI), the self-appointed arbiters of what it means to be open source, has released a new definition, which it hopes will help lawmakers develop regulations to protect…
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This Founder’s Pickle-Infused Restaurant Concept Was an NYC Hit — And He’s Not Stopping There
Jacob Hadjigeorgis shares how his restaurant concept came to be — and how he’s expanding beyond the borough of Manhattan.
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Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution
In 2016, I attended a large meeting of journalists in Washington, DC. The keynote speaker was Jennifer Doudna, who just a few years before had co-invented CRISPR, a revolutionary method of changing genes that was sweeping across biology labs because it was so easy to use. With its discovery, Doudna explained, humanity had achieved the…
Want to understand the future of technology? Take a look at this one obscure metal.
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. On a sunny morning in late spring, I found myself carefully examining an array of somewhat unassuming-looking rocks at the American Museum of Natural History. I’ve gotten to see some cutting-edge technologies…