At Bill Gates’s climate conference, “amazing” progress and “depressing” trends
Bill Gates, John Kerry, and US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm all struck positive notes at…
Bill Gates’s energy venture fund is expanding into climate adaptation and later-stage investments
Bill Gates’s climate-oriented venture capital fund is expanding its mission, adding adaptation to its investment…
When you lose weight, where does it go?
What happens when we lose weight? This is really a question about how our bodies…
A bias bounty for AI will help to catch unfair algorithms faster
AI systems are deployed all the time, but it can take months or even years…
Should we believe in — or even want — immortality?
Twenty years have passed since I first met Aubrey de Grey, the man with the…
The Download: Bill Gates’s new climate plans, and an AI bug bounty
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The dark side of a super app like WeChat
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The debate over whether aging is a disease rages on
Last year, over Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, Kiran Rabheru eagerly joined a call with officials from…
Alex Hanna left Google to try to save AI’s future
“I am quitting because I’m tired,” Alex Hanna wrote on February 2, her last day…
The Download: the aging/disease debate, and WeChat’s dark side
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…