The fascinating evolution of typing Chinese characters
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The Download: introducing the Ethics issue
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Why salt marshes could help save Venice
Venice, Italy, is suffering from a combination of subsidence—the city’s foundations slowly sinking into the…
How ubiquitous keyboard software puts hundreds of millions of Chinese users at risk
For millions of Chinese people, the first software they download on a new laptop or…
Why we should all be rooting for boring AI
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The Download: spying keyboard software, and why boring AI is best
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The ice cores that will let us look 1.5 million years into the past
Moving quickly and carefully in two layers of gloves, Florian Krauss sets a cube of…
The Download: reusing heat from computers, and period research
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Tiny faux organs could crack the mystery of menstruation
In the center of the laboratory dish, there was a subtle white film that could…
This UK startup engineered a clever way to reuse waste heat from cloud computing
Using heat generated by computers to provide free hot water was an idea born not…