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Startup contest seeks sustainable solutions to AI’s energy demands
A new contest is searching for solutions to a defining problem of the AI era: soaring energy consumption. The Energy Innovation for AI Startup Challenge launches amid growing concern...
60,000 federal workers have lost their jobs. Here’s how they can move to the private sector
More than 60,000 federal workers were dismissed during the first two months of the Trump administration with more staff reductions expected in the coming months. Many are mid-career employees...
What to do when no one wants to work with you
Sometimes, being a leader means making tough calls—ones that aren’t popular, and sometimes even get misunderstood. You’ve probably heard the saying, “If everyone likes you, you’re not really leading.”...
These four charts sum up the state of AI and energy
A new report from the International Energy Agency digs into the details of energy and AI, and I think it’s worth looking at some of the data to help...
How a 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics
Afterward, he worked at Komatsu Manufacturing—because, he said, he liked bulldozers. But in 1974, he saw that Tomy was hiring, and he wanted to make toys. “I was told...
UK unleashes drone-zapping microwave weapon amid defence tech drive
The British Army has successfully neutralised swarms of drones in a trial of the “RapidDestroyer” — a new kind of weapon that uses high-frequency microwaves to disable critical electronic...
This toxic chemical is leaking out of nondescript warehouses across the country. Almost no one knows about it
By January 2018, Vanessa Dominguez and her husband had been flirting with moving to a different neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, for a few years. Their daughter was enrolled...
We need targeted policies, not blunt tariffs, to drive “American energy dominance”
MIT Technology Review’s guest opinion series, offering expert commentary on legal, political and regulatory issues related to climate change and clean energy. You can read the rest of the...
NASA has made an air traffic control system for drones
Over the past decade, NASA and industry have demonstrated to the FAA through a series of tests that drones can safely maneuver around each other by adhering to UTM....
Paebbl opens ‘world’s first’ demo plant that turns CO2 into dust
Paebbl has opened its first demo plant in Rotterdam as it looks to ramp up its carbon capture technology. When we visited Paebbl’s sprawling facility in June last year,...
