Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out animal testing. Testing potential skin irritants on animals will be stopped by the end of next year, according to a strategy released on Tuesday. By 2027, researchers are “expected to end” tests of the strength of Botox on mice. And drug tests…
Microsoft’s data center boom has been imperiling its 2030 carbon negative pledge, so the tech giant is turning to Vaulted Deep, which operates like a reverse oil company.
Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye, one of the first among the small number of Black women to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, announced on Thursday the closure of her award-winning beauty startup Ami Colé.
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Simon Willison has a plan for the end of the world. It’s a USB stick, onto which he has loaded a couple of his favorite open-weight LLMs—models that have been shared publicly by their creators and that can, in principle, be downloaded and run…
Despite all the tools promising speed and efficiency, most companies are working harder and getting less done. The culprit isn’t the technology; it’s how we use it.
Twitch’s tests are not widespread at this point, as Appsensa’s research only found a handful of references in the app’s code that mentioned the tests would focus on just “a few streamers” for the time being.