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At Bill Gates’s climate conference, “amazing” progress and “depressing” trends

And yet, this progress hasn’t translated into steep reductions in greenhouse-gas pollution. Meanwhile, geopolitical conflicts and global economic headwinds are complicating efforts to keep rising global temperatures in check. Gates was largely... Read more »

At Bill Gates’ climate conference, “amazing” progress and “depressing” trends

And yet, this progress hasn’t translated into steep reductions in greenhouse-gas pollution. Meanwhile, geopolitical conflicts and global economic headwinds are complicating efforts to keep rising global temperatures in check. Gates was largely... Read more »

The Download: the aging/disease debate, and WeChat’s dark side

Last October, word began to spread among researchers that the World Health Organization was considering a change to its International Classification of Diseases, a catalog used to standardize disease diagnosis worldwide. In... Read more »

Alex Hanna left Google to try to save AI’s future

It was a move that capped a dramatic period in Hanna’s professional life. In late 2020, her manager, Timnit Gebru, had been fired from her position as the co-lead of the Ethical... Read more »

The debate over whether aging is a disease rages on

Ming Guo, the director of UCLA’s Aging Center, likes this revision for its accuracy—and its potential. “It acknowledges aging and offers the opportunity to think there are things we can improve,” says... Read more »

Understanding Mutually Beneficial Sugar Relationships

A mutually effective relationship can be a business collaboration, a legal agreement, a romantic marriage, or any other type of relationship that benefits both parties. These kinds of relationships can be characterized... Read more »

The dark side of a super app like WeChat

I know this is going to be a long week for all of you China watchers. New stories seem to be coming out every minute about the 20th Party Congress that started... Read more »

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The Download: bots for the brokenhearted, and AI for life and death decisions

But many people feel extremely uneasy about letting algorithms help to make decisions about whether people live or die, and rightfully so. Read the full story. —Melissa Heikkilä This story is from... Read more »

Technology that lets us speak to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?

Scripted bits like this sounded stilted and strange, but as we moved on, with my mother recounting memories and speaking in her own words, “she” sounded far more relaxed and natural.  Still,... Read more »