This One Skill Might Help Shape The Future of Education
By introducing coding at an early age and providing the necessary resources and support, parents and educators empower kids to thrive in the digital era.
The Download: OpenAI is building a fully automated researcher, and a psychedelic trial blind spot
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…
‘This Is Evil’: Fans Reeling After Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival Is Canceled Without Explanation
The festival was set to begin on September 2.
DARPA launches two-year competition to build AI-powered cyber defenses
As a part of an ongoing White House initiative to make software more secure, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to launch a two-year contest, the AI Cyber Challenge, that’ll task competitors with identifying and fixing software vulnerabilities using AI. In collaboration with AI startups Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as Microsoft and […]
Fun while it lasted: The room-temperature superconductor claim is probably bunk
The latest room-temp superconductor claims are losing their magnetism after several labs failed to replicate results.
AI Won’t Replace Designers — It Will Make Them More Creative. Here’s How
Designers can use AI to boost their efficiency and creativity.
How One Beloved Burger Chain Is Spending Millions to Get Customers Through the Door
Burger King hopes remodeling and revamping the Whopper will bring customers to stores.
Why Problems Are More Powerful Than Products
Companies spend big budgets on promoting products, but sales come from focusing on what really drives decisions.
The all-electric 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ is loaded with tech and wrapped up in big ol’ package
Like most manufacturers these days, Cadillac is looking to go all-electric in the next few years. By 2030, the company hopes to have its entire fleet run solely on electrons — no PHEVs or mild hybrids here, folks — and to do that, it needs something big to win the hearts and minds of its […]
Matter filters out microplastics, one washer at at time — and raises $10M to go industrial
Microplastics are everywhere — quite literally, as study after study shows. And while we can’t do much about the tiny, toxic particles already in our oceans, waterways, and bodies, we can try to slow the release of new ones. Matter is a startup attempting to do so (with a shiny new $10 million) using a […]
Symmetry raises $18M to bolster organizations’ data security programs
As organizations embrace cloud services — and are forced to confront changing regulations and data use standards — their ability to maintain control of data security frequently becomes strained. If they lose that control, the consequences can be quite severe. The average cost of a data breach is about $3.86 million (per IBM), and most […]