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by Jessica Hamzelou on (#6AS30)
There are trillions of microbes living in and on our bodies—and we might be able to modify them to help us treat diseases. Scientists have altered the genomes of some of these bacteria that live on skin, essentially engineering microbes that can prevent or treat cancer. It appears to work in mice, and human trials…
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by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKF)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Watch this engaging discussion between David Robinson, SVP and MD at SAP, and Vibhuti Dubey, SVP, service offering head, Global SAP Practice at Infosys, talk about the key innovations that Infosys and SAP are ushering in for clients who are creating…
by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKG)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Avinash Raghavendra, president and head of IT at Axis Bank, believes in leveraging a cloud-first architecture to digitalize its banking platform, with a focus on providing modern customer interfaces and next-gen products. Read about how Axis Bank took digital steps to…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6ARKH)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. EVs just got a big boost. We’re going to need a lot more chargers. The US government is pushing for many more electric vehicles to hit the roads in the next few years.…
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by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKJ)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Listen to this podcast featuring Infosys leader Mitrankur Majumdar and Lenny J. Schad, a K-12 technology leader, who discuss how educators often overlook the current risks and the need for cybersecurity in schools. Click here to continue.
by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKK)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” A concerted effort to groom a new generation of cybersecurity experts can bridge the skill gap. University courses and certifications can help young graduates find a rewarding career in cybersecurity. Learn from Infosys and Purdue University about their efforts in creating…
by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKM)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” 2023 is the year of conversational AI. Organizations must reconsider how they organize themselves to integrate this trending technology into their operations. A conversational AI center of excellence (CoE) can help organizations scale faster and deliver value by driving business outcomes.…
by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKN)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” An Infosys study of more than 2,500 AI practitioners from 12 industries found that telecom firms have more AI experience than firms in other industries, yet they have the lowest satisfaction rate with their AI deployments. Read the report to understand…
by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKP)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Holistic AI founder, Emre Kazim, discusses the importance of getting ethics, trust, and transparency right in the early days of the algorithmic age. Click here to continue.
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by Casey Crownhart on (#6ARFX)
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s finally springtime in New York. The skies are clearing up, the trees are blooming, and I’m already wishing I could bottle up all this sunshine to save for when winter comes around…
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by Casey Crownhart on (#6AQYA)
The US government is pushing for a massive wave of electric vehicles to hit the roads in the next few years, but the country doesn’t have nearly enough chargers installed to power them all. The Environmental Protection Agency released proposed standards today that set limits for companies on total carbon dioxide emissions from fleets of…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AQAW)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI literacy might be ChatGPT’s biggest lesson for schools This year millions of people have tried—and been wowed by— artificial intelligence systems. That’s in no small part thanks to OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. When…
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by Melissa Heikkilä on (#6AQ65)
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This year millions of people have tried—and been wowed by— artificial-intelligence systems. That’s in no small part thanks to OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. When it launched last November, the chatbot became an instant…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#6AQ66)
As real and virtual worlds continue to overlap, customers are drawn in by the metaverse and its potential of highly functional and immersive environments. Conceptions of the metaverse may seem fanciful, but the metaverse promises to be the next revolution of the internet, says Denise Zheng, managing director for the Metaverse Continuum Business Group and…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AP5T)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The hottest new climate technology is bricks Heavy industries generate about a quarter of worldwide emissions, and alternative power sources can’t consistently generate the amount of heat that factories need to create their…
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by Moira Donovan on (#6AP1H)
It’s an evening in 1531, in the city of Venice. In a printer’s workshop, an apprentice labors over the layout of a page that’s destined for an astronomy textbook—a dense line of type and a woodblock illustration of a cherubic head observing shapes moving through the cosmos, representing a lunar eclipse. Like all aspects of…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#6AN8K)
As businesses look to get the greatest value from their data, investments in cloud infrastructure from customer relationship management (CRM) systems to email to points of sale can help make data more accessible and bolster innovation, says PwC principal in the analytics insights practice, Anil Nagaraj and Microsoft director of product management Azure Synapse Analytics…
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by Casey Crownhart on (#6AN3G)
A handful of startups think bricks that hold heat could be the key to bringing renewable energy to some of the world’s biggest polluters. Industries that make products ranging from steel to baby food require a lot of heat—most of which is currently generated by burning fossil fuels like natural gas. Heavy industry makes up…
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by Tate Ryan-Mosley on (#6AN3H)
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. On April 3, my colleague Eileen Guo and I published a story that takes readers inside a tense debate about privacy within one of the…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#6AK7W)
More companies are starting to consider the impact that quantum computing will have on their business in the coming years. According to a survey by Deloitte, about half of all companies believe that they are vulnerable to a “harvest now, decrypt later” attack, where encrypted information is stored until a future quantum computer can decrypt…
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by Jessica Hamzelou on (#6AJW6)
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. Embryos are special. These tiny blobs of cells have the potential to create life. That’s why we limit what scientists can do with them. Researchers are generally not allowed to grow human…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#6AJ7Z)
One unexpected side effect of the covid-19 pandemic was that the usually obscure world of health data was brought to national attention. Who was most at risk for infection? Who was most likely to die? Was one treatment better than another? Was getting covid-19 more or less dangerous than getting a vaccine? These complex questions,…
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by Jessica Hamzelou on (#6AJ34)
Embryos made from stem cells—instead of a sperm and egg—have been created from monkey cells for the first time. When researchers put these “synthetic embryos” into the uteruses of adult monkeys, some showed the initial signs of pregnancy. It’s the furthest scientists have ever been able to take lab-grown embryos in primates—and the work hints…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AHW6)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it Just days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was widely denounced as a free essay-writing, test-taking tool that made it…
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by Will Douglas Heaven on (#6AHS5)
The response from schools and universities was swift and decisive. Just days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was widely denounced as a free essay-writing, test-taking tool that made it laughably easy to cheat on assignments. Los Angeles Unified, the second-largest school district in the US, immediately blocked access to OpenAI’s…
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by Casey Crownhart on (#6AHS6)
I’ve been on the road this week, and by a stroke of luck I got to visit one of my favorite places in the world: the whale shark exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. The tank is massive, holding over 6 million gallons of water. Six full-sized whale sharks swim around it, along with…
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by Alli Chase on (#6AH7J)
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AGPW)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How a Chinese battery company powers Turkey’s home-grown EVs 2023 is a big year for Turkey, with both the republic’s 100-year-anniversary and a high-stakes election coming up. It’s also the year when the…
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by Zeyi Yang on (#6AGJ5)
China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. First, a quick housekeeping note: China Report will be off for a few weeks. I’ll be away from work for the rest of the month, so the newsletter will take a brief pause.…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#6AFNV)
Building a better train doesn’t end with delivering the railcars. When Siemens was asked to improve train reliability, the company added sensors and built digital models that could predict the need for door maintenance 10 days before a door actually got stuck—allowing mechanics to prevent delays before they happened. Peter Koerte, chief technology and strategy…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AFH8)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How Russia killed its tech industry In the months after Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, Russia saw a mass exodus of IT workers. According to government figures, about 100,000 IT specialists…
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by Will Douglas Heaven on (#6AFC2)
A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at the music-streaming firm Spotify captures for the first time the complex math behind counterfactual analysis, a precise technique that can be used to identify the causes of past events and predict the effects of future ones. The model, described earlier this year…
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by Masha Borak on (#6AFB0)
Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family’s belongings, canceled the lease on his apartment in Moscow, withdrew his kids from kindergarten, and started a new life outside of Russia. Not long after that, he resigned from his position as chief commercial officer for small and medium businesses…
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by Melissa Heikkilä on (#6AFAZ)
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, AI insiders were hotly debating an open letter signed by Elon Musk and various industry heavyweights arguing that AI poses an “existential risk” to humanity. They called for labs to introduce a…
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by Melissa Heikkilä on (#6AEMP)
AI language models are the shiniest, most exciting thing in tech right now. But they’re poised to create a major new problem: they are ridiculously easy to misuse and to deploy as powerful phishing or scamming tools. No programming skills are needed. What’s worse is that there is no known fix. Tech companies are racing…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AE9P)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the bitter campus privacy battle over smart building sensors When computer science students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Software Research returned to campus in the summer of 2020, there…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AC6G)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’re consuming toxic chemicals. Now we need to figure out how they’re affecting us. What are chemical pollutants doing to our bodies? It’s a timely question given that last week, people in Philadelphia…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AAZ8)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the cozy but creepy world of VR sleep rooms People are gathering in virtual spaces to relax, and even sleep, with their headsets on. VR sleep rooms are becoming popular among people…
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by Casey Crownhart on (#6AAVQ)
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. I spent last week in Washington, DC, and when I wasn’t fawning over the cherry blossoms, I was soaking up all the newest and wildest ideas in energy. The Advanced Research Projects Agency…
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by Tanya Basu on (#6A9XF)
Lo-fi chill music was playing in the distance. Shooting stars sliced through the sparkling galaxy overhead. I was defying physics, hovering in space, on my back. Relaxed, I yawned and stretched, my fist punching a pillow that I had forgotten about. I was, of course, not in space. Physically, I was on a chaise in…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#6A9VB)
As the emergence of radically disruptive technologies over the last decades has created, destroyed, or fundamentally changed many business models, most organizations have undergone some kind of digital transformation in response. Many have been reluctant, however, to acknowledge the degree to which they need to disrupt their standard way of working to succeed in this…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6A9S7)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography” Across social media, a number of creators are generating nostalgic photographs of China with the help of AI. Even though these images get…
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by Zeyi Yang on (#6A9MD)
China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. If you saw these images pop up on your timeline, would you be able to tell if they were real photographs of the southwestern city of Chongqing in the 1990s? In fact, none of them…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#6A9HQ)
The industrial metaverse—a metaverse sector that mirrors and simulates real machines, factories, cities, transportation networks, and other highly complex systems—will offer to its participants fully immersive, real-time, interactive, persistent, and synchronous representations and simulations of the real world. Existing and developing technologies, including digital twins, artificial intelligence and machine learning, extended reality, blockchain, and cloud…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#6A8RZ)
Greater speed and agility are helping organizations address an increasingly competitive marketplace, heightened customer expectations, and the lingering impact of the pandemic. To compete more effectively, companies are gathering and analyzing increasingly large and disparate sets of data. But only with cloud solutions, like Microsoft Azure, can this data provide insight into every corner of…
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by Jenn Webb on (#6A8NJ)
When seemingly disparate fields, industries, and ways of thinking merge, a convergence happens, which, has the power to build more intuitive and advanced futures for both organizations and the everyday consumer, says Accenture communications, media and technology industry group chair, Kathleen O’Reilly and Daniela Rus, Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL),…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6A8H1)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Microplastics are messing with the microbiomes of seabirds The news: While we know that tiny pieces of plastic are everywhere, we don’t fully understand what they’re doing to us or other animals. Now,…
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by Melissa Heikkilä on (#6A8AD)
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Think of a teacher. Close your eyes. What does that person look like? If you ask Stable Diffusion or DALL-E 2, two of the most popular AI image generators, it’s a white…
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by Jessica Hamzelou on (#6A7C7)
Tiny pieces of plastic are everywhere. They’re in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. By one estimate, some people ingest around a credit card’s worth of plastic every week. Microplastics have been found in human blood, placentas, and feces. But we don’t fully understand what all these minuscule…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6A77R)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like. Whether it’s based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, a gold rush has started over the last several months…
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