How green steel made with electricity could clean up a dirty industry
When you climb up a set of stairs to look over Boston Metal’s newest project,…
The Download: Big Tech’s post-Roe silence, and the US EV charging landscape
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
The hacking industry faces the end of an era
NSO Group, the world’s most notorious hacking company, could soon cease to exist. The Israeli…
We need smarter cities, not “smart cities”
The term “smart cities” originated as a marketing strategy for large IT vendors. It has…
Metaverse: Open for business?
Ever since Facebook’s rebrand to Meta, the metaverse—loosely defined as an extensive online world where…
Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments
The ad reads like an offer of salvation: Cancer kills many people. But there is…
The US Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. What does that mean?
The US Supreme Court has ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 legal…
The smart city is a perpetually unrealized utopia
In 1959, in a short essay called “The Great Game to Come,” a little-known Dutch…
Yann LeCun has a bold new vision for the future of AI
Around a year and a half ago, Yann LeCun realized he had it wrong. LeCun,…
The Download: Yann LeCun’s AI vision, and smart cities’ unfulfilled promises
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…