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What’s next for MDMA

However, for drugs that carry a risk of serious side effects, the FDA can add a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy to its approval. For MDMA that might include mandating that the... Read more »

The Download: Google’s AI Overviews nightmare, and improving search and rescue drones

When Google announced it was rolling out its artificial intelligence-powered search feature earlier this month, the company promised that “Google will do the googling for you.”The new feature, called AI Overviews, provides... Read more »

Why Google’s AI Overviews gets things wrong

In the case of AI Overviews recommending a pizza recipe that contains glue—drawing from a joke post from Reddit—it’s likely that the post appeared relevant to the user’s original query about cheese... Read more »

What’s next for bird flu vaccines

Most of the flu virus used in vaccines is grown in eggs, but there are alternatives. The seasonal flu vaccine Flucelvax, produced by CSL Seqirus, is grown in a cell line derived... Read more »

Why are Google’s AI Overviews results so bad?

In the case of AI Overviews recommending a pizza recipe that contains glue—drawing from a joke post from Reddit—it’s likely that the post appeared relevant to the user’s original query about cheese... Read more »

AI-directed drones could help find lost hikers faster

In virtual testing, Ewers’ algorithm beat both of those approaches in two key measures; the distance a drone would have to fly to locate the missing person, and the percentage of time... Read more »

The Download: the future of electroceuticals, and bigger EVs

In the early 2010s, electricity seemed poised for a hostile takeover of your doctor’s office. Research into how the nervous system—the highway that carries electrical messages between the brain and the body—... Read more »

Why bigger EVs aren’t always better

There are a lot of reasons to be nervous about the ever-expanding footprint of vehicles, from pedestrian safety and road maintenance concerns to higher greenhouse-gas emissions. But in a way, SUVs also... Read more »

The messy quest to replace drugs with electricity

If you were superstitious, what happened next might have looked like an omen. The word “electroceutical” already belonged to someone else—a company called Ivivi Technologies had trademarked it in 2008. “I am... Read more »

AI-readiness for C-suite leaders

Preparing an organization’s data for AI, however, unlocks a new set of challenges and opportunities. This MIT Technology Review Insights survey report investigates whether companies’ data foundations are ready to garner benefits... Read more »