The Download: a curb on climate action, and post-Roe period tracking
The news: The Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions has been dealt a massive blow by the US Supreme...
Author : Rhiannon Williams
The Download: Algorithms’ shame trap, and London’s safer road crossings
Working in finance at the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis, mathematician Cathy O’Neil got a firsthand look at how much people trusted algorithms—and how...
The Download: Introducing our TR35 list, and the death of the smart city
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 TR35...
The Download: Facebook’s misleading cancer ads, and hacking’s next era
The ad reads like an offer of salvation: Cancer kills many people. But there is hope in Apatone, a proprietary vitamin C–based mixture, that is...
The Download: Yann LeCun’s AI vision, and smart cities’ unfulfilled promises
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. Yann LeCun has...
The Download: Retrofitting cities, and Alexa mimics the dead
The scars and pockmarks of the aging apartments and housing units under the purview of the New York City Housing Authority don’t immediately communicate the...
The Download: China’s possible surveillance sanctions, and hacking locusts
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. The world’s biggest...
The Download: India’s delivery apps, and covid vaccines for young children
From 7 a.m. until well past dusk, seven days a week, N. Sudhakar sits behind the counter of his hole-in-the wall grocery store in the...
The Download: Trolling text scammers, and China’s social media censorship
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. The people using...
Homophobic misinformation is making it harder to contain the spread of monkeypox
Homophobic misinformation circulating about monkeypox on social media is hampering efforts to curb the disease’s spread, research conducted on behalf of MIT Technology Review has...