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The Download: ancient DNA, and offshore wind

—Casey Crownhart Casey’s story is from The Spark, her weekly newsletter covering energy and climate change. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find... Read more »

The wild new technology coming to offshore wind power

The solution, as Weinstein sees it, is to build floating turbines. Offshore wind power is following a progression that oil and gas companies charted with drilling rigs: moving from onshore to offshore to... Read more »

New year’s resolutions for CIOs

2. I will define my zero-trust control plane. We will continue to see an increase in industries requiring zero-trust frameworks, such as those set forth by the U.S. government. These requirements will... Read more »

DNA that was frozen for 2 million years has been sequenced

DNA breaks apart with time, so the older it is, the smaller the pieces become—until there’s nothing left to detect. And the shorter the fragments are, the trickier it is to assign... Read more »

The Download: metaverse fashion, and looser covid rules in China

Fashion creator Jenni Svoboda is designing a beanie with a melted cupcake top, sprinkles, and doughnuts for ears. But this outlandish accessory isn’t destined for the physical world—Svoboda is designing for the... Read more »

This is how China’s zero-covid policy is changing

It’s a confusing time. Instead of a single top-down decision from Beijing to roll back zero-covid policies, there have been many independent decisions announced by local governments in the last week, mostly... Read more »

Making sense of the changes to China’s zero-covid policy

It’s a confusing time. Instead of a single top-down decision from Beijing to roll back zero-covid policies, there have been many independent decisions announced by local governments in the last week, mostly... Read more »

How US police use counterterrorism money to buy spy tech

The report drew on a host of public records, and its financial calculations aggregate previous research with public data from government websites. The organizations provide a list of recommendations, including a call... Read more »

The metaverse fashion stylists are here

Most digital stylists balance their metaverse clients with real-world gigs. Michaela Leitz-Askalan, for example, runs a plus-size styling business in the real world but decided to start selling her services as a... Read more »

The Download: Uber’s flawed facial recognition, and police drones

One evening in February last year, a 23-year-old Uber driver named Niradi Srikanth was getting ready to start another shift, ferrying passengers around the south Indian city of Hyderabad. He pointed the... Read more »