February 17, 2026

The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance

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 curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks…

Blue Origin, Astrobotic, Varda Space and others win NASA funding to develop advanced space tech

July 25, 2023
NASA awarded new funding to eleven companies today for advanced space tech projects ranging from advanced power generation on the lunar surface to additive manufacturing for space habitats. The awards, which total $150 million across all eleven companies, were announced as part of the space agency’s Tipping Point program. According to NASA, a technology is […]

OpenAI scuttles AI-written text detector over ‘low rate of accuracy’

July 25, 2023
OpenAI has shut down its AI classifier, a tool that claimed to determine the likelihood a text passage was written by another AI. While many used and perhaps unwisely relied on it to catch low-effort cheats, OpenAI has retired it over its widely criticized “low rate of accuracy.” The theory that AI-generated text has some […]

Google Search is making it easier to find relevant information on women’s sports

July 25, 2023
Google is introducing a few new ways to make it easier for users to find relevant information when searching for women’s sports, the company announced on Tuesday. The new updates come in time for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The search giant says it has expanded coverage of women’s competitions in the information boxes […]

Apple’s app tracking triggers statement of objections from French competition authority

July 25, 2023
Bad news could be brewing for Apple in France where the national competition authority has issued a statement of objections related to how it tracks iOS users. The watchdog, L’Autorité de la Concurrence, said today that it suspects the iPhone maker of abusing a dominant position by implementing what it described as “discriminatory, non-objective and […]