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AI can now create a replica of your personality

Led by Joon Sung Park, a Stanford PhD student in computer science, the team recruited 1,000 people who varied by age, gender, race, region, education, and political ideology. They were paid up... Read more »

The Download: Clear’s identity ambitions, and the climate blame game

But assigning responsibility is complicated. These three visualizations help explain why. —Casey Crownhart Cyber Week Sale: subscriptions are half price! Take advantage of epic savings on award-winning reporting, razor-sharp analysis, and expert... Read more »

Who’s to blame for climate change? It’s surprisingly complicated.

Even then, though, there’s another factor to consider: population. Dividing a country’s total emissions by its population reveals how the average individual in each nation is contributing to climate change today.  Countries... Read more »

Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airport

The more Clear is able to reach into customers’ lives, the more valuable customer data it can collect. All user interactions and experiences can be tracked, the company’s privacy policy explains. While... Read more »

Roundtables: What’s Next for Mixed Reality: Glasses, Goggles, and More

The latest iteration of a legacy Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events... Read more »

The Download: police AI, and mixed reality’s future

6 Robots still struggle to match warehouse workers on some tasksFor all the advances robots have made, picking things up and moving them around remains a big challenge. (NYT $)+ AI is poised to... Read more »

How the largest gathering of US police chiefs is talking about AI

It bills itself as the largest gathering of police chiefs in the United States, where leaders from many of the country’s 18,000 police departments and even some from abroad convene for product... Read more »

The Download: Bluesky’s rapid rise, and harmful fertility stereotypes

I won’t spoil the movie for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet (although I should warn that it is not for the squeamish). But a key premise of the film involves harmful... Read more »

The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of social

For example, Bluesky is great for breaking news because it does not deprioritize links and defaults to a social graph that shows updates from the people you follow in chronological order. (It... Read more »

Why the term “women of childbearing age” is problematic

This lack of research goes some way to explaining why women are much more likely to experience side effects from drugs—some of them fatal. Over the last couple of decades, greater effort... Read more »