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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

The big story How environmental DNA is giving scientists a new way to understand our world February 2024Environmental DNA is a relatively inexpensive, widespread, potentially automated way to observe the diversity and... Read more »

Ryakitimbo has collected voice data in Kiswahili in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She tells me she wanted to collect voices from a socioeconomically diverse set of Kiswahili speakers... Read more »

Quote of the day “Shawty crunk, so fresh, so clean.” —Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO-turned rapper, debuts a reworked version of 2002 rap hit Get Low in a tribute to his wife, the... Read more »

As I covered last week, Trump’s election will almost certainly result in less progress on cutting emissions than we might have seen under a more climate-focused administration. But arguably an even bigger... Read more »