Watch the moment NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into an asteroid
NASA is celebrating the success of humanity’s first test of a planetary defense system: crashing…
The Download: asteroid deflection, and Florida’s approaching hurricane
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
This startup’s AI is smart enough to drive different types of vehicles
Wayve, a driverless-car startup based in London, has made a machine-learning model that can drive…
YouTube wants to lure creators away from TikTok with cash, but it won’t say how much
In 2007, YouTube made a decision that created a career out of what was previously…
The Download: dual-driving AI, and Russia’s Telegram propaganda
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
How we’ll transplant tiny organ-like blobs of cells into people
To the naked eye, organoids aren’t much to look at. They’re basically tiny blobs. Closer…
Russia’s battle to convince people to join its war is being waged on Telegram
When Vladimir Putin declared the partial call-up of military reservists on September 21, in a…
The Download: authoritarian tech, and tower-building drones
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
DeepMind’s new chatbot uses Google searches plus humans to give better answers
The trick to making a good AI-powered chatbot might be to have humans tell it…
The YouTube baker fighting back against deadly “craft hacks”
Ann Reardon is probably the last person whose content you’d expect to be banned from…