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How climate vulnerability and the digital divide are linked

“For me as a Louisianan, it is not always as severe as, you know, we get a killer storm every three years,” Sanders says. “It’s also as subtle as everyone in this... Read more »

Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”

What happens next? This does not mean the EU is going to adopt these policies outright. Next, members of the European Parliament will have to thrash out details with the Council of... Read more »

How existential risk became the biggest meme in AI

The starkest assertion, signed by all those figures and many more, is a 22-word statement put out two weeks ago by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), an agenda-pushing research organization based... Read more »

The Download: building anti-aging hype, and exploring the universe with sound

It’s not every day that police storm through the doors of a scientific session and eject half the audience. But that’s what happened on Friday at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center... Read more »

How sounds can turn us on to the wonders of the universe

Wanda Díaz-Merced is probably the world’s best-known BVI astronomer. But her career illustrates the magnitude of the challenges. She gradually lost her eyesight in her adolescence and early adulthood. Though she initially... Read more »

Five big takeaways from Europe’s AI Act

The AI Act vote passed with an overwhelming majority, and has been heralded as one of the world’s most important developments in AI regulation. The European Parliament’s president, Roberta Metsola, described it... Read more »

Police got called to an overcrowded presentation on “rejuvenation” technology

Broadly speaking, Belmonte says he believes “dysregulation” of these control systems is a fundamental process that underlies aging and many diseases. To rejuvenate cells, Belmonte has been exploring a method of resetting... Read more »

Got rejuvenation? Better call security

Broadly speaking, Belmonte says he believes “dysregulation” of these control systems is the fundamental process that underlies aging and many diseases. To rejuvenate cells, Belmonte has been exploring a method of resetting... Read more »

The Download: waiting at the US border, and seaweed’s carbon capture shortcomings

3 Jamal Khashoggi’s widow is suing the NSO GroupShe maintains that its Pegasus spyware tracked her husband before he was murdered. (WP $)+ US financiers are in talks to acquire some of... Read more »

The new US border wall is an app

Then, in March 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an order under Title 42 of the US code of laws, expediting expulsions, halting the processing of asylum claims... Read more »