The Download: OpenAI’s data disaster, and screens in schools
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Generative AI risks concentrating Big Tech’s power. Here’s how to stop it
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The quest to build wildfire-resistant homes
The first sparks that ignited in the Montecito hills above Santa Barbara, California, on November…
The Download: fire-resistant homes, and Big Tech’s AI chokehold
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Teachers in Denmark are using apps to audit their students’ moods
In a Copenhagen suburb, a fifth-grade classroom is having its weekly cake-eating session, a common…
The US is pouring money into surveillance tech at the southern border
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This technology could alter the entire planet. These groups want every nation to have a say.
Picture two theoretical futures: one in which nations counteract climate change by spraying reflective particles…
The Download: solar geoengineering’s high stakes, and tracking student’s moods
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Bacteria can be engineered to fight cancer in mice. Human trials are coming.
There are trillions of microbes living in and on our bodies—and we might be able…
Banning ChatGPT will do more harm than good
The release of ChatGPT has sent shock waves through the halls of higher education. Universities…