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Audio Postcard: Real-time farming

Pinot Grigio actually makes a white wine and it’s won a few varieties in California that, uh, is a pretty common variety that actually we make purple grapes that make a white... Read more »

Hybrid cloud wins rely on data protection

This embrace of hybrid cloud is happening industry wide at an impressive clip, according to Veeam vice president of enterprise strategy Dave Russell. “In recent years, the pandemic and resulting macroeconomic activities... Read more »

The Download: dual-driving AI, and Russia’s Telegram propaganda

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, is on course to collide with the asteroid Dimorphos at 7.14pm ET today. Though Dimorphos is not about to collide with Earth, DART is... Read more »

YouTube wants to lure creators away from TikTok with cash, but it won’t say how much

When asked what percent of Shorts ad revenue will be in this creator pool, a YouTube spokesperson did not address the question. When pressed in a follow-up email, the spokesperson replied, “we... Read more »

This startup’s AI is smart enough to drive different types of vehicles

Jay Gierak at Ghost, which is based in Mountain View, California, is impressed by Wayve’s demonstrations and agrees with the company’s overall viewpoint. “The robotics approach is not the right way to... Read more »

Russia’s battle to convince people to join its war is being waged on Telegram

Just minutes after Putin announced conscription, the administrators of the anti-Kremlin Rospartizan group announced its own “mobilization,” gearing up its supporters to bomb military enlistment officers and the Ministry of Defense with... Read more »

How we’ll transplant tiny organ-like blobs of cells into people

We are arguably a long way off from transplanting miniature brain blobs into people (although some have tried putting them in rodents). But we are getting closer to implanting other organoids—potentially those... Read more »

The Download: YouTube’s deadly crafts, and DeepMind’s new chatbot

Ann Reardon is probably the last person whose content you’d expect to be banned from YouTube. A former Australian youth worker and a mother of three, she’s been teaching millions of loyal... Read more »

The YouTube baker fighting back against deadly “craft hacks”

A warning in the description of every 5-Minute Crafts upload reads: “The following video might feature activity performed by our actors within controlled [sic] environment—please use judgment, care, and precaution if you... Read more »

DeepMind’s new chatbot uses Google searches plus humans to give better answers

The difference between this approach and its predecessors is that DeepMind hopes to use “dialogue in the long term for safety,” says Geoffrey Irving, a safety researcher at DeepMind.  “That means we... Read more »