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The Download: words of wisdom from the departing White House tech advisor, and controversial AI manga translation

President Biden’s administration will end within two months, and likely to depart with him is Arati Prabhakar, the top mind for science and technology in his cabinet. She has served as Director... Read more »

This manga publisher is using Anthropic’s AI to translate Japanese comics into English

Orange distributes its translations via an app called emaqi (a pun on “emaki,” the ancient Japanese illustrated scrolls that are considered a precursor to manga). It also wants to be a translator-for-hire... Read more »

What the departing White House chief tech advisor has to say on AI

If consumers don’t have confidence that the AI tools they’re interacting with are respecting their privacy, are not embedding bias and discrimination, that they’re not causing safety problems, then all the marvelous... Read more »

The Download: bird flu, and waterless concrete for the moon

How worried should we be about bird flu? The past few months have seen some potentially worrisome developments in the US, including the continued spread of the virus among dairy cattle, the... Read more »

The risk of a bird flu pandemic is rising

Virologists have been especially worried about the virus making its way into pigs, because these animals are notorious viral incubators. “They can become infected with swine strains, bird strains and human strains,”... Read more »

The moon is just the beginning for this waterless concrete

Building a home base on the moon will demand a steep supply of moon-based infrastructure: launch pads, shelter, and radiation blockers. But shipping Earth-based concrete to the lunar surface bears a hefty... Read more »

The Download: uncertainty over NASA’s moon rocket, and what’s next for nuclear

2 The FTC is probing MicrosoftIt’s a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into its cloud computing, AI and security arms. (NYT $)+ The FTC has been preparing for this for a full year. (WP... Read more »

This startup is getting closer to bringing next-generation nuclear to the grid

MIT Technology Review released our list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch less than two months ago. Since then, awardee Kairos Power has had three big announcements about its progress toward... Read more »

What’s next for NASA’s giant moon rocket?

“I think it would be the right call,” says Abhishek Tripathi, a former mission director at SpaceX now at the University of California, Berkeley. “It’s hard to point to SLS as being... Read more »

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