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The Download: Twitter’s edit button, and cleaning up fossil fuels

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Jackson is entering its fifth day without waterThe Mississippi capital’s residents are bearing the brunt of decades of... Read more »

The US agency in charge of developing fossil fuels has a new job: cleaning them up

Now it’s responsible for helping to clean up the industry.  In July the agency, which has about 600 employees and a roughly $900 million budget, added “and Carbon Management” to its name,... Read more »

An edit button won’t fix Twitter’s problems

Twitter has resisted adding the ability to edit tweets for years, despite it being the most-requested feature from its users, including would-be owner Elon Musk. Former chief executive Jack Dorsey previously said... Read more »

The Download: gene therapy and AI chip wars

During the covid-19 pandemic, antibodies played a front-and-center role. We used home tests to look for them, and we took vaccines so our bodies would make more.Less attention was paid to B... Read more »

A new gene therapy based on antibody cells is about to be tested in humans

So far, B cells haven’t gotten the same attention—indeed, genetically engineered versions have never been tested in a human. That’s partly because “engineering B cells is not that easy,” says Xin Luo, a... Read more »

The Download: AI privacy risks, and cleaning up shipping

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Pakistan is reeling from its devastating floodingPoor policy making, mixed with a climate change-driven monsoon, has... Read more »

What does GPT-3 “know” about me? 

That’s unsurprising—Mat’s been very online for a very long time, meaning he has a bigger online footprint than I do. It might also be because he is based in the US, and... Read more »

How ammonia could help clean up global shipping

The American Bureau of Shipping, which sets safety standards for global shipping, recently granted early-stage approval for some ammonia-powered ships and fueling infrastructure, including a design from Samsung Heavy Industries, one of... Read more »

The Download: EV havoc in China, and the first private Venus mission

Podcast: I Was There When: AI helped create a vaccine Only a select few people know what it’s like to be present during breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and computing. In the latest... Read more »

New 6G challenges inspire cross-disciplinary innovation

Bold research advances will underpin future connectivity Addressing these physical and technical limitations will require leaps of innovation, but the promise of applications powered by advanced 6G connectivity is motivating creative solutions.... Read more »