The Download: Chicago’s surveillance network, and building better bras
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Inside Chicago’s surveillance panopticon
Early on the morning of September 2, 2024, a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train
Exclusive eBook: The great Al hype correction of 2025
2025 was a year of reckoning, including how the heads of the top AI companies
The Download: Microsoft’s online reality check, and the worrying rise in measles cases
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Job titles of the future: Breast biomechanic
Twenty years ago, Joanna Wakefield-Scurr was having persistent pain in her breasts. Her doctor couldn’t
Community service
The bird is a beautiful silver-gray, and as she dies twitching in the lasernet I’m
Measles cases are rising. Other vaccine-preventable infections could be next.
There’s a measles outbreak happening close to where I live. Since the start of this
Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online
AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives. There are the high-profile cases you may easily
The Download: autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots
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The building legal case for global climate justice
The United States and the European Union grew into economic superpowers by committing climate atrocities.
How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade
On a bright morning last April, a surveillance plane operated by the Colombian military spotted
What it takes to make agentic AI work in retail
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Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling
Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what they
The Download: a blockchain enigma, and the algorithms governing our lives
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The robots who predict the future
To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying