IPCC: We can Tackle Climate Change if Big Oil Gets Out of the Way
Experts say criticism of oil and gas’s ‘climate-blocking activities’ cut from final draft, reflective of industry’s power and influence.
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Improving Drug Development with AI, Not Animals
Tremendous resources are wasted on would-be treatments that never even make it to the clinical trial stage because, often, tests conducted on animals provided misleading results. Dr. Jo Varshney is out to fix that.
McKibben Prods Bill Gates to Go Further
What we’re reading this week: Environmentalist Bill McKibben unpacks apparent contradictions in Gates’ new climate book, critiquing his lack of political engagement. NASA aims to answer a question David Bowie asked in 1973. And apps...
Why “Othering” AI Keeps Us From Understanding It
AI is not coming to get us. It’s already here and adding real value to our daily lives. Deployed with vision and foresight, robotics and machine-learning has the promise to make us more human in...
Why Microsoft Shouldn’t Buy TikTok
A Microsoft acquisition won’t end well, argues Raskin. Here's why she's rooting for a complete spinoff of TikTok, creating a new American company.
What Past Innovations Can Teach Us About the Future
Historical sources provide clues and insights into how to understand the socio-technical systems of today, and tomorrow.
Gates Foundation Supports Tech in Kenya Despite Political Turmoil
Melinda Gates, the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, launched Pathways for Prosperity, a commission on technology and inclusive development in Nairobi, Kenya. The technological innovations that the commission is investigating is at...
An Optimistic Gates Sees Promise in Genetics
At the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Bill Gates told 7,000 geneticists that the world needs them to up the pace of innovation in order to solve our most pressing health...
