The impact of app crashes on consumer engagement
High-profile mobile app crashes reveal how life can be upended when an app freezes abruptly…
Many cities are banning ads for airlines, SUVs and fossil fuels. Yours could be next
Towns and cities are pushing ahead with ambitious climate policies, even as global collaboration on…
A/B test tool shows Facebook constantly experimenting on consumers—and even its creators don't fully know how it works
Users of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok might think they're simply interacting…
The cheapest way to supercharge America’s power grid
US electricity consumption is rising faster than it has in decades, thanks in part to…
The Download: supercharging the power grid, and a new Chinese AI agent
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These two new AI benchmarks could help make models less biased
A new pair of AI benchmarks could help developers reduce bias in AI models, potentially…
AGI is suddenly a dinner table topic
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A late start, then a big boom: Why it took until 1975 for Australians to finally watch TV in color
Some 50 years ago, on March 1 1975, Australian television stations officially moved to color.
The Download: gene de-extinction, and Ukraine’s Starlink connection
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The Download: Denmark’s robot city, and Google’s AI-only search results
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