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Who gets to be a tech entrepreneur in China?

I recently talked about this with Lin Zhang, assistant professor of communications and media studies at the University of New Hampshire and author of a new book: The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship... Read more »

How the Supreme Court ruling on Section 230 could end Reddit as we know it

But another big issue is at stake that has received much less attention: depending on the outcome of the case, individual users of sites may suddenly be liable for run-of-the-mill content moderation.... Read more »

A de-extinction company is trying to resurrect the dodo

Even if Colossal can make what it terms “a functional proxy for the dodo,” there won’t be a clear answer about where to put it. The big agricultural industry in Mauritius is... Read more »

The Download: hope for renewables, and AI’s role in journalism

The news: Powering the world with renewable energy will take a lot of raw materials. The good news is, when it comes to aluminum, steel, and rare-earth metals, there’s plenty to go... Read more »

Yes, we have enough materials to power the world with renewable energy

This study only focused on technologies that generate electricity. It didn’t include all the materials that would be needed to store and use that electricity, like the batteries in electric vehicles or... Read more »

Could ChatGPT do my job?

So far, newsrooms have pursued two very different approaches to integrating the buzziest new AI tool, ChatGPT, into their work. Tech news site CNET secretly started using ChatGPT to write entire articles,... Read more »

The Download: military drones, and forbidden US chips

New report: Generative AI in industrial design and engineering Generative AI has the potential to transform industrial design and engineering, making it more important than ever for leaders in those industries to... Read more »

Mass-market military drones have changed the way wars are fought

Explosions in Armenia, broadcast on YouTube in 2020, revealed this new shape of war to the world. There, in a blue-tinted video, a radar dish spins underneath cyan crosshairs until it erupts... Read more »

A watermark for chatbots can expose text written by an AI

For example, since OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT was launched in November, students have already started cheating by using it to write essays for them. News website CNET has used ChatGPT to write articles,... Read more »

The Download: watermarking AI text, and freezing eggs

That’s why the team behind a new decision-making tool hope it will help to clear up some of the misconceptions around the procedure—and give would-be parents a much-needed insight into its real... Read more »