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The US Postal Service is finally getting EVs

It’s been a long road to get here, folks. Constant criticism, a strongly-worded letter from the Environmental Protection Agency, a presidential plea, and a lawsuit from 16 states is all it took... Read more »

What’s next in space in 2023

Into the solar system Moons of the solar system’s biggest planet are also on the agenda next year. April 2023 will see a gripping new mission launch from the European Space Agency... Read more »

Radar and laser breakthroughs serve humanitarian ends

After disasters, damaged water and power infrastructure can turn a localized crisis into a national catastrophe. “When typhoons and earthquakes cause utility infrastructure to collapse, such events turn into large disasters,” says Kasmi.... Read more »

The Download: worst tech of 2022, and crypto’s future

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk says he will step down as Twitter’s CEOAs soon as he can find someone “foolish enough... Read more »

The worst technology of 2022

The impact of these technologies could be measured in the number of people affected. More than a billion people in China are now being exposed to the virus for the first time;... Read more »

Why it’s so hard to tell porn spam from Chinese state bots

But this spam content may not have had anything to do with the Chinese government after all, according to a report published on Monday by the Stanford Internet Observatory. “While the spam... Read more »

Irwin Lebow’s rosemary challah

In 1992, Irwin Lebow ’48, PhD ’51, submitted this recipe to Moment Magazine’s Ultimate Challah Contest. The judges named it the top recipe in the non-traditional challah category. Lebow called it a... Read more »

Humans at the center of effective digital defense

Consequently, content moderation—the monitoring of UGC—is essential for online experiences. In his book Custodians of the Internet, sociologist Tarleton Gillespie writes that effective content moderation is necessary for digital platforms to function,... Read more »

Is there a limit to human life?

People have always been fascinated with the question of human longevity. In this 1954 piece for Technology Review, James A. Tobey, author of more than a dozen books on public health, including Your... Read more »

What’s next for crypto in 2023

Tornado warning DeFi advocates are also facing off against regulators on a separate front, where the main issue at hand is privacy. Nowhere are the stakes higher for the future of the... Read more »