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Heat Pumps Sell Like Hotcakes on America’s Oil-Rich Frontier
Juneau gets most of its electricity from lakes that offer a clean hydropower resource. This means that it is particularly ecofriendly…
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Workers Are Dying in the EV Industry’s ‘Tainted’ City
After GNI rejected their demands, workers called a strike from January 11 to 14. On the last day, more than 500…
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Bitcoin Investors Are Plotting a Major Coup
Like Valkyrie, Osprey has called on Grayscale to step down as sponsor and put itself forward as a replacement. In…
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Didi’s Revival Shows China Can’t Live Without Big Tech
Didi went public on June 30, 2021, valued at $68 billion. Two days later, on the evening of July 2,…
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Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI
Applying synthetic voices to books also brings new business and cultural challenges. “Most of the companies developing these AI technologies…
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The Scramble to Save Twitter’s Research From Elon Musk
two years ago, Twitter launched what is perhaps the tech industry’s most ambitious attempt at algorithmic transparency. Its researchers wrote…
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Supersize Electric Cars Are Pushing Road Safety to the Limit
American roads looked different when the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety built its car-smashing crash test system in the early…
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Elon Musk’s New Twitter Superpower Is Dangerous
Musk has also restricted the use of his Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine and made statements that have been…
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AI Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger
Each evaluation is a window into an AI model, Solaiman says, not a perfect readout of how it will always…
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Crypto Buyers Beware: 1 in 4 New Tokens of Any Value Is a Scam
Over just a little more than a decade, the crypto world has exploded from a single currency to millions of…
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