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Three frequently asked questions about EVs, answered

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about transportation in general, since it’s one of the biggest areas we need to clean up to address climate change: it accounts for something... Read more »

Data at the center of business

Mark: That’s a great question. And first, I would say across JPMorgan Chase, we do view this as an investment. And every time I talk to a senior leader about the work... Read more »

The Download: deep diving, and virtual power plants in China

In China, which is adopting electric vehicles faster than any other country, VPPs could be transformational. The country has just started testing programs which incentivize EV owners to charge their vehicles late... Read more »

Why China’s EV ambitions need virtual power plants

If you, like me, are unsure how a power plant can be virtual, my colleague June Kim just published an insightful article explaining the technology and how it works. For this week’s... Read more »

Meet the divers trying to figure out how deep humans can go

The others were amazed. Some were perturbed. “Everybody has to make this decision for themself,” Stone told me. “The Pearse Resurgence is not a place to experiment. When you go in there,... Read more »

Transforming document understanding and insights with generative AI

AI Assistant in Adobe Acrobat, now in beta, is a new generative AI–powered conversational engine deeply integrated into Acrobat workflows, empowering everyone with the information inside their most important documents. Accelerating productivity... Read more »

I went for a walk with Gary Marcus, AI’s loudest critic

Late last year he wrote a book, called Taming Silicon Valley, which is coming out this fall. It is his manifesto on how AI should be regulated, but also a call to... Read more »

The Download: hunting for new matter, and Gary Marcus’ AI critiques

Marcus does much of his tweeting on scenic walks around his hometown of Vancouver. Our senior AI reporter Melissa Heikkilä decided to join him on one such stroll while she was visiting... Read more »

Inside the hunt for new physics at the world’s largest particle collider

Not everyone is fully on board. Some theorists worry that the approach will only yield more false alarms from the collider—more tentative blips in the data like “two-sigma bumps,” so named for... Read more »

The Download: missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa, and Uruguay’s screwworm gene drive

They are about to move into the next stage of caged trials in the lab, with a view to eventually using the genetic tool to decimate the screwworm fly population. Read the... Read more »