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The Download: NASA’s tiny spacecraft, and the RSV vaccine shortage
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The Download: NASA’s tiny spacecraft, and the RSV vaccine shortage

Plus: SBF has been found guilty 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 NASA’s bid to make spacecraft as small as possible Since the 1970s, we’ve sent a lot of big things to Mars. But when NASA successfully sent

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The Download: striking actors training AI, and breaking ‘unbreakable’ encryption
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The Download: striking actors training AI, and breaking ‘unbreakable’ encryption

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 Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI Between July and September this year, actors in the US were invited to participate in an unusual research project, designed to capture

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The Download: inside an AI gym, and how to make the internet safer
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The Download: inside an AI gym, and how to make the internet safer

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. Welcome to the AI gym staffed by virtual trainers  Like any good gym, Lumin Fitness prides itself on the quality of its trainers. Chloe, an energetic young coach, promises to help you crush

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The Download: ChatGPT gets even chattier, and recreating space on Earth
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The Download: ChatGPT gets even chattier, and recreating space on Earth

Plus: inside Congress’s AI meeting 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. You can now have a voice conversation with ChatGPT  The news: OpenAI has launched two new ways to interact with its flagship large language model in a major

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The Download: child online safety laws, and ClimateTech is coming
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The Download: child online safety laws, and ClimateTech is coming

Plus: the scientists who paved the way for the covid vaccines have been awarded a Nobel Prize 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. Child online safety laws will actually hurt kids, critics say This summer, the Senate moved two

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This robotic exoskeleton can help runners sprint faster
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This robotic exoskeleton can help runners sprint faster

It encourages wearers to take more steps, covering distances more quickly than they could without it.Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at Chung-Ang University A wearable exoskeleton can help runners increase their speed by encouraging them to take more steps, allowing them to cover short distances more quickly. While previous studies have focused on how wearable

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The Download: Europe vs Chinese EVs, and making AI vision less biased
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The Download: Europe vs Chinese EVs, and making AI vision less biased

Plus: Getty is confident its AI won’t run into trouble with copyright 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. Europe is working to slow down the global expansion of Chinese EVs Earlier this month, the European Commission announced it is

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The Download: talking driverless cars, and updated covid vaccines
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The Download: talking driverless cars, and updated covid vaccines

Plus: AI has demonstrated it’s capable of human-level creativity—but is it really? 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. This driverless car company is using chatbots to make its vehicles smarter The news: Self-driving car startup Wayve can now interrogate

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The Download: introducing our TR35 innovators
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The Download: introducing our TR35 innovators

Plus: meet the innovator working to make AI safer 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. Introducing: Our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2023 How do you know what’s coming next, especially with a topic as fast-moving as technology?

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The Download: what to expect from US Congress’s first AI meeting
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The Download: what to expect from US Congress’s first AI meeting

Plus: Meta is taking on OpenAI with a new LLM 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 know about Congress’s inaugural AI meeting The US Congress is heading back into session, and they’re hitting the ground running on

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