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The inevitable weakness of metrics
There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over a...
The Download: a reality check for geoengineering and the science of interoception
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. Hacking...
Entrepreneurs in Nairobi make the case for going solar
__________________________THE PLACENairobi, Kenya Most of Kenya’s power grid runs on renewables. But with 25% of communities lacking centralized electricity, the nation is looking to off-grid...
Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check
Jim Franke pulls away the cover page of a presentation on the wraparound desk in his office, revealing an illustration of an odd-looking aircraft with...
The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar
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...
Geoengineering still faces major practical challenges
Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a sort of emergency brake. Something along the lines of Pull in case of climate emergency to scatter light-reflecting...
The search for dark matter has been blown wide open
Underneath an Apennine massif, below the Jinping Mountains of Sichuan, and at the bottom of a South Dakota mine, there is a cosmic hunt afoot....
DataRobot for Developers — integrating with the Google Antigravity CLI
Antigravity CLI is the newest agentic coding CLI from Google, replacing the now-deprecated Gemini CLI. It inherits the asynchronous subagent model that makes Antigravity stand...
The DataRobot platform as skills in Claude Code
Claude Code is a genuinely good agent builder. You describe what you want, it reasons through the problem, picks tools, and ships working code. For...
Why do South Koreans love AI so much?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When I...
This man with ALS is “the first power user” of a brain implant that lets him speak
Casey Harrell has had a set of electrodes embedded in his brain for almost three years. Harrell, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and is...
The Download: cutting AC emissions, and nature’s drug designer
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. These...