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This unlikely fuel could power cleaner trucks and ships

Shipping out Companies trying to cut their climate impacts in the marine shipping sector are looking to alternative fuels, including methanol and ammonia. Amogy’s system could be a better option than combustion... Read more »

Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “super trees”

Since neither Mellor nor Hall had substantial experience with genetic transformation, they enlisted outside scientists to do some of the early work. The company focused on replicating Ort’s enhanced-photosynthesis pathway in trees,... Read more »

Google DeepMind’s game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster

DeepMind compares AlphaDev’s discovery to one of AlphaGo’s weird but winning moves in its Go match against grandmaster Lee Sedol in 2016. “All the experts looked at this move and said, ‘This... Read more »

The Download: ocean-based carbon removal, and Musk’s untweeted trip to China

The news: A nonprofit formed by Mike Schroepfer, Meta’s former chief technology officer, has spun out a new organization aimed at speeding up research into ocean alkalinity enhancement—a potential way to use... Read more »

Elon Musk’s quiet, untweeted China trip

Ever since China lifted most of its pandemic-era travel restrictions in January, foreign executives have been swarming in. And Musk had good reason to go: China is a vital part of Tesla’s... Read more »

Meta’s former CTO has a new $50 million project: ocean-based carbon removal

The seas already act as a powerful buffer against the worst dangers of climate change, drawing down about a quarter of human-driven carbon dioxide emissions and absorbing the vast majority of global... Read more »

Apple will need to convince developers to build apps for its headset

“We do have in our apps a lot of custom elements, so we will have to customize that and spend some time adjusting to match all of the things to run smoothly... Read more »

The Download: Apple’s headset challenges, and what AI can learn from nuclear safety

The ‘one more thing’ announced by Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this year was the industry’s worst-kept secret. The Apple Vision Pro, the tech giant’s gamble on making mixed reality... Read more »

Apple will face an uphill battle convincing developers to build apps for its headset

Apple hopes the Vision Pro will fundamentally change how we interact with our devices. Freed from the constraints of a smartphone or tablet screen, Apple hopes we’ll embrace “spatial computing”, as its... Read more »

To avoid AI doom, learn from nuclear safety

Last week, a group of tech company leaders and AI experts pushed out another open letter, declaring that mitigating the risk of human extinction due to AI should be as much of a... Read more »