Author: Hunter

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. What to expect from Neuralink in 2025 In November, a young man named Noland Arbaugh announced he’d be livestreaming from his home for three days straight. His broadcast was in some ways typical… Read more

The hosts of Uncanny Valley spent the week following the advice of AI chatbots when it came to shopping, fitness, and parenting. Here’s how it went. Read more

As IT professionals and business decision-makers, we’ve routinely used the term “digital transformation” for well over a decade now to describe a portfolio of enterprise initiatives that somehow magically enable strategic business capabilities. Ultimately, the intent, however, is generally at odds with measurably useful outcomes. Transformation initiatives usually defy gravity in terms of what is… Read more

Nathaniel Fick, the ambassador for cyberspace and digital policy, has led US tech diplomacy amid a rising tide of pressure from authoritarian regimes. Will the Trump administration undo that work? Read more

Despite its transformative capabilities, many organizations hesitate to adopt generative AI (GenAI). According to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 4, April 2024, the most significant factors limiting further evaluation or expanded use of GenAI are lack of skills and a lack of clear use cases or initial offerings that align with business… Read more

Calculating air pollution from wildfires and other events has become more complicated. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily more accurate. Read more

Whatever US politicians were hoping for, what they got was a huge increase in users signing up to Duolingo to learn Chinese and American users flooding Chinese apps. Read more

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ha firmado un contrato superior a 1.000 millones de dólares para suministrar servidores de inteligencia artificial a X, la plataforma antes conocida como Twitter, según Bloomberg. El acuerdo supone un espaldarazo decisivo a la tecnología de HPE, que se habría impuesto a sus principales competidores, Dell y Supermicro. Aunque los detalles… Read more

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Lately, the vibes have been good for nuclear power. Public support is building, and public and private funding have made the technology more economical in key markets. There’s also a swell of… Read more

L’Oréal continúa demostrando por qué la innovación forma parte intrínseca de su ADN. La compañía especializada en belleza ha suscrito un acuerdo de colaboración con IBM para aprovechar la tecnología de vanguardia y la experiencia en inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa del gigante azul para descubrir nuevos conocimientos sobre los datos de formulación de cosméticos, facilitando el… Read more