The Download: Google’s AI energy expenditure, and handing over DNA data to the police
Google has just released a report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. In total, the median prompt—one that falls...
Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI
Building these models took a few months, but Pak says they were very quick at designing candidates for therapies once the setup was complete:...
The case against humans in space
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, a scholar of religion at Wesleyan University, presents a thorough diagnosis of this exact pathology in her 2022 book Astrotopia: The Dangerous...
Trump Is Betting Big on Intel. Will the Chips Fall His Way?
The US government is aiming to take an equity stake in Intel in exchange for grants the company was already committed to receive under...
The Download: Ukraine’s Starlink repair shop, and predicting solar storms
Starlink is absolutely critical to Ukraine’s ability to continue in the fight against Russia. It’s how troops in battle zones stay connected with faraway...
Forging connections in space with cellular technology
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose...
Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
United States Custom and Border Protection officials have sweeping powers to search anyone’s phone when they are entering the country—including US citizens. Newly released...
‘Kirby Air Riders’ Is Coming to Switch 2 and It’s ‘Basically Like Mario Kart’
More than two decades after Kirby Air Ride launched on GameCube, Kirby Air Riders is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on Nov 20. Director...
The Download: clean energy progress, and OpenAI’s trilemma
—Joshua A. Basseches is the David and Jane Flowerree Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Public Policy at Tulane University.The second Trump administration is...
The Download: pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native artists’ tech interpretations
People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments like the Turing test....
