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What if fintech worked for the people who don’t download fintech?
I’ve spent much of my career in fintech, but some of the most inspiring innovations I’ve seen came from a town most people have never…
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The Download: de-censoring DeepSeek, and Gemini 3
The news: A group of quantum physicists at Spanish firm Multiverse Computing claims to have created a version of the powerful reasoning AI…
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The Download: how AI really works, and phasing out animal testing
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Chinese hackers used…
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The Download: AI to measure pain, and how to deal with conspiracy theorists
It was during the pandemic. They suddenly started posting daily on Facebook about the dangers of covid vaccines and masks, warning of an…
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The Download: how to survive a conspiracy theory, and moldy cities
—Mike Rothschild is a journalist and an expert on the growth and impact of conspiracy theories and disinformation. It’s something of a…
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The Download: surviving extreme temperatures, and the big whale-wind turbine conspiracy
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.…
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The Download: a new home under the sea, and cloning pets
—Senator Bernie Sanders reacts to Tesla shareholders’ decision to award Elon Musk a $1 trillion pay package in a post on X. One more thing…
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The Download: how doctors fight conspiracy theories, and your AI footprint
“The opportunistic side of me is realizing that your average accountant won’t be doing this.” —Sal Abdulla, founder of accounting-software…
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The Download: the solar geoengineering race, and future gazing with the The Simpsons
—David Keith is the professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago and Daniele Visioni is an assistant professor of earth…
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The Download: the AGI myth, and US/China AI competition
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.…
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The Download: down the Mandela effect rabbit hole, and the promise of a vaccine for colds
Quick question: Does the Fruit of the Loom logo feature a cornucopia? Many of us have been wearing the company’s T-shirts for decades, and…
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The Download: Introducing the new conspiracy age
—Greg Linden, a former data scientist at Microsoft, pokes fun at Meta’s beleaguered Reality Labs’ earnings in a post on Bluesky. One more…
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The Download: what to make of OpenAI’s Atlas browser, and how to make climate progress
Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airport Clear Secure is the most visible biometric identity company in the…
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The Download: carbon removal’s future, and measuring pain using an app
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.…
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The Download: aluminium’s potential as a zero-carbon fuel, and what’s next for energy storage
Found Energy, a startup in Boston, aims to harness the energy in scraps of aluminum metal to power industrial processes without fossil…
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The Download: the rehabilitation of AI art, and the scary truth about antimicrobial resistance
In this era of AI slop, the idea that generative AI tools like Midjourney and Runway could be used to make art can seem absurd. But amid…
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The Download: creating the perfect baby, and carbon removal’s lofty promises
An emerging field of science is seeking to use cell analysis to predict what kind of a person an embryo might eventually become. Some…
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The Download: Big Tech’s carbon removals plans, and the next wave of nuclear reactors
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.…
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The Download: aging clocks, and repairing the internet
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.…
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The Download: our bodies’ memories, and Traton’s electric trucks
“Like riding a bike” is shorthand for the remarkable way that our bodies remember how to move. Most of the time when we talk about muscle…
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The Download: mysteries of the immunome, and how to choose a climate tech pioneer
Made up of 1.8 trillion cells and trillions more proteins, metabolites, mRNA, and other biomolecules, every person’s immunome is…
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The Download: carbon removal factories’ funding cuts, and AI toys
“OpenAI is building the future of AI on infrastructure it doesn't own, power it doesn't control, and capital it doesn't have.” —Andrey…
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The Download: using AI to discover “zero day” vulnerabilities, and Apple’s ICE app removal
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.…
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The Download: RIP EV tax credits, and OpenAI’s new valuation
1 OpenAI has become the world’s most valuable startup Move aside, SpaceX. (Bloomberg $) + OpenAI is now valued at an eye-watering $500…