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A brief guide to the greenhouse gases driving climate change

Greenhouse gases are those that trap heat in the atmosphere. SF6 and other fluorinated gases can be thousands of times more powerful at warming the planet than carbon dioxide, and yet, because... Read more »

The Download: climate tipping point alarms, and AI’s vision of the 3028 Olympics

If you can’t wait until then, we’ll reveal our Innovator of the Year during a live broadcast on LinkedIn on Monday, September 9. Register here to be among the first to find... Read more »

The UK is building an alarm system for climate tipping points

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will announce today that it’s seeking proposals to work on systems for two related climate tipping points. One is the accelerating melting of the Greenland Ice... Read more »

Coming soon: Our 2024 list of Innovators Under 35

MIT Technology Review has published its Innovators Under 35 list since 1999. The first edition was created for our 100th anniversary and was meant to give readers a glimpse into the future,... Read more »

What this futuristic Olympics video says about the state of generative AI

With each shot requiring a new set of prompts, it’s also hard to instill a sense of continuity throughout a video. The color, angle of the sun, and shapes of buildings are... Read more »

The Download: election tech fears, and AI for teachers

—Felix M. Simon is a research fellow in AI and News at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism; Keegan McBride is an assistant professor in AI, government, and policy at... Read more »

Here’s how ed-tech companies are pitching AI to teachers

But this year, more and more educational technology companies are pitching schools on a different use of AI. Rather than scrambling to tamp down the use of it in the classroom, these... Read more »

AI’s impact on elections is being overblown

Far from being dominated by AI-enabled catastrophes, this election “super year” at that point was pretty much like every other election year. While Meta has a vested interest in minimizing AI’s alleged... Read more »

The Download: how to prove you’re human, and replacing the grid’s gas

1 X is a lot quieter without its Brazilian usersThe extremely online nation ran many of X’s most popular fan accounts. (NYT $)+ Brazil’s Supreme Court is under fire from some quarters... Read more »

How “personhood credentials” could help prove you’re a human online

Martin Tschammer, head of security at startup Synthesia, which creates AI-generated hyperrealistic deepfakes, says he agrees with the principle driving personhood credentials: the need to verify humans online. However, he is unsure... Read more »