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How a half-trillion dollars is transforming climate technology

“There is still a long way to go, but the initial signs, particularly in manufacturing, have been very good,” Gopal says.    Looking ahead: more details, and emissions cuts The IRA is... Read more »

China’s car companies are turning into tech companies

Both EV makers and AI startups have published aggressive roadmaps for national rollouts of their city NOA services, claiming their customers in dozens or hundreds of Chinese cities will soon be able... Read more »

Tech is broken—can collective action fix it?

“It’s so gross to view people like that—to see situations and natural facts of life like dying as problems,” Wang said during lunch and beers on the back patio of an Oakland... Read more »

Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines

This is why a human hand must squeeze the trigger, why a human hand must click “Approve.” If a computer sets its sights upon the wrong target, and the soldier squeezes the... Read more »

The Download: China’s autonomous race, and Kiva’s controversial changes

Chinese car companies all seem fixated on one goal: launching their own autonomous navigation services in more and more cities as quickly as possible. In just the past six months, nearly a... Read more »

The race to lead China’s autonomous driving market

His final assessment? The Navigation on Autopilot isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty “impressive” and a preview of more advancements to come.  Beyond a simple product review, Sundin’s video is giving his followers... Read more »

The rise of the tech ethics congregation

Sarah Husain, who’d worked on Twitter’s Trust and Safety team until it was eliminated by Elon Musk, told me at a May 2022 event that several colleagues in her field had spoken... Read more »

What happened to the microfinance organization Kiva?

Another key concern, strikers told me, is Kiva US, a separate program that offers zero-interest loans to small businesses domestically. Janice Smith had no fundamental problem with the affordable rates, but she... Read more »

The Download: corporate presentations, and carbon removal funding

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Survivors say there was no warning siren before the Lahaina wildfiresBut it’s unclear what went wrong. (BBC)+ Researchers... Read more »

AI isn’t great at decoding human emotions. So why are regulators targeting the tech?

In addition to proposing the theory of evolution, Darwin studied the expressions and emotions of people and animals. He debated in his writing just how scientific, universal, and predictable emotions actually are,... Read more »