The Download: A longevity influencer’s new religion, and humanoid robots’ shortcomings

Bryan Johnson is on a mission to not die. The 47-year-old multimillionaire has already applied his…

The Download: Foreign disinformation intel, and gene-edited pork

A previously unreported document distributed by senior US State Department official Darren Beattie reveals a sweeping…

The Download: China’s energy throwback, and choosing between love and immortality

—Gigi Kwik Gronvall, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, explains the…

The Download: the AI Hype Index, and “normal” AI

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The Download: China’s manufacturers’ viral moment, and how AI is changing creativity

Since the video was posted earlier this month, millions of TikTok users have watched as a…

The Download: Apple’s eucalyptus carbon bet, and climate tech’s bad vibes

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The Download: canceled climate tech projects, and South Korea’s AI web comics

This year has been rough for climate technology: Companies have canceled, downsized, or shut down at…

The Download: How AI is changing music, and a US city’s AI experiment

While large language models that generate text have exploded in the last three years, a different…

The Download: Tracking the evolution of street drugs, and the next wave of military AI

In 2021, the Maryland Department of Health and the state police were confronting a crisis: Fatal…

The Download: The dangers of DOGE, and how to blow up an asteroid

—Steven Renderos is the executive director of Media Justice Tech buzzwords are clanging through the halls…

The Download: How the military is using AI, and AI’s climate promises

For much of last year, US Marines conducting training exercises in the waters off South Korea,…

The Download: AI co-creativity, and what Trump’s tariffs mean for batteries

Existing generative tools can automate a striking range of creative tasks and offer near-instant gratification—but at…

The Download: A “dire wolf” revival, and safeguarding AI companions

“No longer do I have to drive a symbol of racism, greed and ignorance! Life is…

The Download: How the US is meeting China’s technological rise, and Trump’s tariff war intensifies

And that had opened the door to the possibility of hacking into the body’s circuitry and…

The Download: how to make better cooling systems, and farming on Mars

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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 the…

The Download: How people fall for pig butchering schemes, and saving glaciers

Gavesh’s journey had started, seemingly innocently, with a job ad on Facebook promising work he desperately…

The Download: Peering inside an LLM, and the rise of Signal

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