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RSV is on the rise but preventative drugs are in short supply

This year we were supposed to have more tools than ever before to protect kids from RSV (short for respiratory syncytial virus), including a new shot called nirsevimab that’s given preventively to... Read more »

AI gains momentum in core manufacturing services functions

Disruption in manufacturing and the supply chain has pushed businesses toward digital transformation as they seek ways to stay competitive. For manufacturers, these disruptions—along with the advent of AI—present opportunities to make... Read more »

The Download: cybercriminals’ Pacific paradise, and the carbon offset crash

Tokelau, a string of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997. Just... Read more »

The growing signs of trouble for global carbon markets

But what counts as quality?  Carbon Direct says it can include carefully managed and closely monitored reforestation efforts or the burying of biochar, a charcoal-like material formed from plant matter that can... Read more »

How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime

It was from an early internet entrepreneur from Amsterdam, named Joost Zuurbier. He wanted to manage Tokelau’s country-code top-level domain, or ccTLD—the short string of characters that is tacked onto the end... Read more »

Humans at the heart of generative AI

Generative AI is becoming a key component of business operations and customer service interactions today. According to Salesforce research, three out of five workers (61%) either currently use or plan to use... Read more »

The Download: tech’s hardest problems, and cancer-fighting cell therapies

Technology is all about solving big thorny problems, yet one of the hardest things is knowing where to focus our efforts. There are so many urgent issues facing the world. Where should... Read more »

Innovative new cell therapies could finally get at tough-to-target cancers

For example, researchers can create cells that require the presence of two antigens to activate (an “and” gate), or cells that activate in the presence of either receptor (an “or” gate). “You... Read more »

China wants to win the gene therapy race—and it’ll spend millions

On Friday, Shu Yilai, a professor and practicing surgeon at Fudan University in Shanghai, shared results of the trial, in which young patients received injections of a virus that added replacement DNA... Read more »

What are the hardest problems in tech we should be more focused on as a society?

Technology is all about solving big thorny problems. Yet one of the hardest things about solving hard problems is knowing where to focus our efforts. There are so many urgent issues facing... Read more »