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How China hopes to secure its supply chain for critical minerals

Zimbabwe instituted some export restrictions on unrefined ore. They wanted to encourage international financial investment into refineries in the country to export refined products to benefit their people more. And Indonesia did... Read more »

Google has a new tool to outsmart authoritarian internet censorship

Importantly, during crackdowns, the SDK will make it easier for developers from different companies to work on the same code and enable them to run updates more efficiently, allowing for quicker responses... Read more »

The Download: introducing our TR35 innovators

How do you know what’s coming next, especially with a topic as fast-moving as technology? One way is to focus on the technology itself, as we do every year with our 10... Read more »

She was a semi-pro Go player but learned that biology is even harder

ALEX GAGNE The result of her survey, published in January, is an “atlas” of how individual transcription factors affect the identity of stem cells. Joung says she has seen neurons, beating heart... Read more »

2023 Innovator of the Year: As AI models are released into the wild, Sharon Li wants to ensure they’re safe

This did not happen because the robot was programmed to do harm. It was because the robot was overly confident that the boy’s finger was a chess piece.   The incident is a... Read more »

Building ethical thinking into technology

Okay, so that last one is just a nightmare scenario courtesy of the AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who posed it at an EmTech Digital event of ours earlier this year. But it... Read more »

Andrew Ng: How to be an innovator

Having spent many years working on AI research and building AI products, I’m fortunate to have participated in a few innovations that made an impact, like using reinforcement learning to fly helicopter... Read more »

Robots that learn as they fail could unlock a new era of AI

The problem is that training multiskilled robots requires lots of data. Pinto’s solution is to find novel ways to collect that data—in particular, getting robots to collect it as they learn, an... Read more »

How software that tracks covid variants could protect us against future outbreaks

The tool, which has been accessible online since 2021, now records more than 15 million viral sequences, and scientists add to it daily. It helps them and public health officials discover new... Read more »

This startup plans to power a tugboat with ammonia later this year

Young Suk Jo, 34, came up with a possible solution in an unlikely chemical: ammonia. Amogy, a startup Jo cofounded in 2020, is building systems that can use ammonia, typically a component... Read more »