Using data, AI, and cloud to transform real estate
October 16, 2023
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Using data, AI, and cloud to transform real estate

Sandeep: Sure. Using an example is great because this is such a wide field, both commercial real estate and the application of AI/ML in commercial real estate. In…

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The Download: a new kind of IVF, and the AI consciousness debate
October 16, 2023
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The Download: a new kind of IVF, and the AI consciousness debate

—Grace Huckins This story is from the next magazine edition of MIT Technology Review, set to go live on October 25. It’s all about society’s hardest problems, and…

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The fight over the future of encryption, explained
October 16, 2023
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The fight over the future of encryption, explained

I want to tell you about one thing that came up in our conversation: efforts to, in some way, monitor encrypted messages.  Policy proposals have been popping up…

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Think that your plastic is being recycled? Think again.
October 15, 2023
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Think that your plastic is being recycled? Think again.

Some states, though, have instituted policies that actually hinder progress. Industry lobbyists are increasingly helping to institute state-level laws that prevent bans or limits on the use of…

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The Download: a new brain atlas, and using maths to make sense of nature
October 14, 2023
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The Download: a new brain atlas, and using maths to make sense of nature

Scientists have unveiled the most compete atlas of the human brain ever created. The work, part of the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative, is the culmination of…

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This mathematician is making sense of nature’s complexity
October 14, 2023
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This mathematician is making sense of nature’s complexity

András Sipos, a professor in Domokos’s department, sees this unusual background as one reason for Domokos’s originality. “He is not stuck to the symbols and the language of…

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How AI could supercharge battery research
October 14, 2023
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How AI could supercharge battery research

That massive climate bill is still on everyone’s minds over 400 days after it passed in the US. James Temple sat down with environmental policy expert Leah Stokes…

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Scientists just drafted an incredibly detailed map of the human brain
October 13, 2023
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Scientists just drafted an incredibly detailed map of the human brain

Today, scientists have a first draft of that guide. In a set of 21 new papers published across three journals, the teams report that they’ve developed large-scale whole-brain…

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The Download: the problem of plastic, and how AI could boost batteries
October 13, 2023
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The Download: the problem of plastic, and how AI could boost batteries

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Israel’s tech sector is being enlisted in the warMany of its workers…

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The quest for equitable climate solutions
October 13, 2023
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The quest for equitable climate solutions

Afterwards, Baker sat down with us for a conversation about how to distribute the benefits of new technologies and address community concerns around new projects.  This conversation has…

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