The Download: the mortality issue, and America’s new favorite shopping app
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.1 Conspiracy theorists have seized upon Russia’s “dirty bomb” claimsDespite...
The Download: de-censoring DeepSeek, and Gemini 3
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Quantum physicists...
‘The Beast Adjoins’ Is Seriously Creepy Sci-Fi
The new anthology The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021 collects 20 of the best short stories of the year. Series editor John...
You should be suspicious of benevolent big business
We’re living in an age of benevolent corporations, or at least corporations that want to be perceived as such.
In early April, outgoing Amazon CEO...
The downside to Biden’s electric vehicle charging plan
Earlier this week, Vice President Kamala Harris publicly plugged in a Chevy Bolt at a charging station in Maryland. “There’s no sound or fumes!”...
TikTok’s US ban has been delayed another two weeks — or...
Remember when the Trump administration thought TikTok was a grave threat to America?
No?
Well, fair enough. The Trump administration also seems to have forgotten that...
The Download: Europe’s heat wave hits the grid, and IBM’s chip targets Moore’s Law
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....
The Download: introducing the Engineering issue
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....
The Download: Europe’s heat wave hits the grid, and IBM’s chip targets Moore’s Law
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....
The Download: introducing the Engineering issue
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....
The Download: the future of chipmaking and Anthropic’s government clash
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....
The Download: record-breaking subsea tunnels and flexible data centers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....
The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....
The inevitable weakness of metrics
There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over...
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The Download: Europe’s heat wave hits the grid, and IBM’s chip targets Moore’s Law
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....
The Download: introducing the Engineering issue
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....
The Download: the future of chipmaking and Anthropic’s government clash
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....
The Download: record-breaking subsea tunnels and flexible data centers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....
The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology....