Rhiannon Williams
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TECHNOLOGY
The Obtain: some correct local climate news, and a innovative unique chip manufacture
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world…
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The Discover: amazing home, and geoengineering restrictions
Plus: Ukraine's allies are pressuring Germany to prove the country with its prized tanks This is today's edition of The Download, our…
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The Download: China’s social credit ranking law, and robotic dog navigation
It’s easier to talk about what China’s social credit system isn’t than what it is. Ever since 2014, when China…
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The Get: who can pay for local climate commerce, and blockchain gaming
This week has seen the start of COP27, the UN’s two-week climate conference, where world leaders have met in Sharm…
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The Bag: capturing carbon with seagrass, and China’s election interference
For years, Tidal, a project within Alphabet’s “moonshot factory” X division, has been using cameras, computer vision and machine learning…
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The Salvage: how Twitter is breaking, and YouTube’s TV experiment
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world…
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The Acquire: Vine revisited, and AI ethicist burnout
Good news, everyone: Vine is (probably) coming back. The much beloved short-form-video-sharing app ran from just 2012 to 2017, when…
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The Download: textual utter material-to-video AI, and China’s monumental methanol guess
What’s happened: Meta has unveiled an AI system that generates short videos based on text prompts. Make-A-Video lets you type…
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The Gather: Amazon’s home-guarding robotic, and covid’s violent legacy
The news: Amazon announced yesterday that its home robot, Astro, will be getting a slew of major updates aimed at…
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The Derive: LinkedIn scammers, and annual covid shots
If you were just looking at his LinkedIn page, you’d certainly think Mai Linzheng was a top-notch engineer. With a…
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