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The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge
Kongjian Yu pioneered China’s “sponge city” concept—less concrete and more green spaces to exploit stormwater instead of fighting it. Metropolises al…
2 years, 6 months ago
States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat
Around 46 million Americans live in states that have introduced bills to ban cultivated meat, the latest escalation in a surprising culture war. Than…
2 years, 6 months ago
Regulators Need AI Expertise. They Can’t Afford It
The European AI Office and the UK government are trying to hire experts to study and regulate the AI boom—but are offering salaries far short of indu…
2 years, 6 months ago
Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired
Hundreds of thousands of tech workers have been laid off since 2022. Some who don’t fit the young coder archetype say being more experienced can feel…
2 years, 6 months ago
Rampant Wildfires Are Threatening a Collapse of the Amazon Rainforest
Rainforests in South America are burning this year faster than ever before, setting the course for a collapse of the Amazon in the coming decades. Th…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Quest to Give AI Chatbots a Hand—and an Arm
Robotics startup Covariant is experimenting with a ChatGPT-style chatbot that can control a robotic arm, as a way to create machines that can be more…
2 years, 6 months ago
Apple Could Be the First Target of Europe's Tough New Tech Law
An architect of the EU's tough new Digital Markets Acts says Apple would be a logical first candidate for investigation under the law, which aims to …
2 years, 6 months ago
Europe Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech
Tech giants have to comply with a new EU law that is set to change the internet. It aims to force open the biggest platforms to encourage competition…
2 years, 7 months ago
Scientists Are Inching Closer to Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth
De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences claims it has found a way to reprogram elephant cells, a technical breakthrough that could lead to the ret…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Trump Trial Ransomware Leak
The notorious LockBit gang promised a Georgia court leak "that could affect the upcoming US election.” It didn't materialize—but the story may not be…
2 years, 7 months ago