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EVs just got a big boost. We’re going to need a lot more chargers.

The EPA announcement will essentially align federal regulations with the new California rules, Jonas Nahm, an assistant professor of energy, resources, and environment at Johns Hopkins, said in an email.  It will... Read more »

The Download: ChatGPT’s impact on schools, and Elon Musk’s AI plans

This year millions of people have tried—and been wowed by— artificial intelligence systems. That’s in no small part thanks to OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. When it launched last November, the chatbot became an... Read more »

Enabling the next iteration of the internet: The metaverse

It’s this continuum of technologies that’s evolving that will shape the future, in my opinion. When you asked “what are companies doing there now,” I think you mentioned Walmart. What I’m seeing... Read more »

AI literacy might be ChatGPT’s biggest lesson for schools

The teachers Will spoke to had already started applying a critical lens to technologies such as ChatGPT. Emily Donahoe, a writing tutor and educational developer at the University of Mississippi, said she... Read more »

The Download: heat-storing bricks, and using AI to understand history

Heavy industries generate about a quarter of worldwide emissions, and alternative power sources can’t consistently generate the amount of heat that factories need to create their wares. Enter heat batteries. A growing... Read more »

How AI is helping historians better understand our past

So far, the project has yielded some surprising results. One pattern found in the data allowed researchers to see that while Europe was fracturing along religious lines after the Protestant Reformation, scientific... Read more »

Making the world a data-driven place with the cloud

Kim: Yeah. This is the really amazing thing about the cloud because once the data’s all there, amazing things can be done with it and innovation is happening like crazy. And we... Read more »

Behind the scenes of Carnegie Mellon’s heated privacy dispute

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University set out to create advanced smart sensors called Mites. The sensors were meant to collect 12 types of environmental data, including motion, temperature, and scrambled audio, in... Read more »

The hottest new climate technology is bricks

Many industrial processes run 24 hours a day, so they’ll need constant heating. By carefully controlling the heat transfer, Rondo’s system can charge quickly, taking advantage of short periods when electricity is... Read more »

Delivering a quantum future

Because data can be saved and archived, classified and sensitive information—which may need to be protected longer than a decade, or more—needs to be protected with quantum-resistant algorithms. The four algorithms selected... Read more »