The Download: Hong Kong’s crypto obsession, and digitizing India’s documents
November 8, 2023
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The Download: Hong Kong’s crypto obsession, and digitizing India’s documents

While Sam Bankman-Fried was waiting for the jury in his fraud trial to return their verdict last week, Hong Kong FinTech Week 2023, a new annual conference hosted…

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Why Hong Kong is still bullish on crypto
November 8, 2023
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Why Hong Kong is still bullish on crypto

The day after his conviction, I was at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2023, a new annual conference hosted by the local government. Unlike people in the US, where…

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The Download: combating Parkinson’s with implants, and counting carbon’s cost
November 8, 2023
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The Download: combating Parkinson’s with implants, and counting carbon’s cost

The news: A man with Parkinson’s disease has regained the ability to walk after physicians implanted a small device into his spinal cord that sends signals to his…

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The Download: cybercriminals’ Pacific paradise, and the carbon offset crash
November 5, 2023
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The Download: cybercriminals’ Pacific paradise, and the carbon offset crash

Tokelau, a string of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the…

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The growing signs of trouble for global carbon markets
November 5, 2023
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The growing signs of trouble for global carbon markets

The promise of offsets is that companies or individuals can balance out their greenhouse-gas pollution by paying other parties to prevent emissions or remove carbon dioxide from the…

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How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime
November 5, 2023
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How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime

It was from an early internet entrepreneur from Amsterdam, named Joost Zuurbier. He wanted to manage Tokelau’s country-code top-level domain, or ccTLD—the short string of characters that is…

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The Download: NASA’s tiny spacecraft, and the RSV vaccine shortage
November 4, 2023
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The Download: NASA’s tiny spacecraft, and the RSV vaccine shortage

Since the 1970s, we’ve sent a lot of big things to Mars. But when NASA successfully sent twin Mars Cube One spacecraft, the size of cereal boxes, to…

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RSV is on the rise but preventative drugs are in short supply
November 4, 2023
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RSV is on the rise but preventative drugs are in short supply

This year we were supposed to have more tools than ever before to protect kids from RSV (short for respiratory syncytial virus), including a new shot called nirsevimab…

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AI gains momentum in core manufacturing services functions
November 4, 2023
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AI gains momentum in core manufacturing services functions

Disruption in manufacturing and the supply chain has pushed businesses toward digital transformation as they seek ways to stay competitive. For manufacturers, these disruptions—along with the advent of…

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Tackling our biggest problems
November 2, 2023
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Tackling our biggest problems

We have employed it to broadcast hateful rhetoric and divisive ideologies. We have fine-tuned our machines to kill each other in ever greater numbers and with ever more…

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