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The Download: how to make better cooling systems, and farming on Mars
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
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How 3D printing could make better cooling systems
“Heat exchangers are at the center of the industrial economy. They’re an essential part of…
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The Download: Brain-computer interfaces, and teaching an AI model to give therapy
The big story The quest to protect farmworkers from extreme heat October 2024 On July…
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Brain-computer interfaces face a critical test
Tech companies are always trying out new ways for people to interact with computers—consider efforts…
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How do you teach an AI model to give therapy?
The researchers, a team of psychiatrists and psychologists at Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine,…
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The Download: Generative AI therapy, and the future of 23andMe’s genetic data
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Meet…
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The first trial of generative AI therapy shows it might help with depression
Many psychologists and psychiatrists have shared the vision, noting that fewer than half of people…
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How a bankruptcy judge can stop a genetic privacy disaster
Bankruptcy proceedings involving personal data don’t have to end badly. In 2000, the Federal Trade…
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The Download: Peering inside an LLM, and the rise of Signal
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 A…
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“Spare” living human bodies might provide us with organs for transplantation
The very existence of synthetic embryos is throwing into question our understanding of what a…