Redefining data engineering in the age of AI
As their influence grows, so do the challenges data engineers face. A major one is dealing with greater complexity, as ...
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Introducing: The body issue | MIT Technology Review
“This is one of the least visited places on planet Earth and I got to open the door,” Matty Jordan, ...
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Inside the archives of the NASA Ames Research Center
Wind tunnels NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER ARCHIVES A key motivation for the new lab was the need for huge wind ...
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The Download: Embryo ethics, and reducing chatbot risks
Instead of relying on the same old recipe biology has followed for a billion years, give or take, stem-cell scientist ...
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Flowers of the future | MIT Technology Review
Anthocyanins are red or indigo pigments that supply antioxidants and photoprotectants, which help a plant tolerate climate-related stresses such as ...
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The Download: A promising retina implant, and how climate change affects flowers
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 AWS is recovering from a major ...
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Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization
You live in a house you designed and built yourself. You rely on the sun for power, heat your home ...
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The problem with Big Tech’s favorite carbon removal tech
While corporations, including tech giants like Microsoft, are betting big on this technology, there are a few potential problems with ...
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The Download: The rehabilitation of AI art, and the scary truth about antimicrobial resistance
In this era of AI slop, the idea that generative AI tools like Midjourney and Runway could be used to ...
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This startup thinks slime mold can help us design better cities
Officially known as Physarum polycephalum, slime mold is neither plant, animal, nor fungus but a single-celled organism older than dinosaurs. ...
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