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The Download: the CDC’s vaccine chaos

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-09-21 19:10:00

This week has been an eventful one for America’s public health agency. Two former leaders of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explained why they suddenly departed in a Senate hearing. They also described how CDC employees are being instructed to turn their backs on scientific evidence. They painted a picture of a health agency in turmoil—and at risk of harming the people it is meant to serve. And, just hours afterwards, a panel of CDC advisers voted to stop recommending the M

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The Download: measuring returns on R&D, and AI’s creative potential

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-09-26 11:10:00

Given the draconian cuts to US federal funding for science, it’s worth asking some hard-nosed money questions: How much should we be spending on R&D? How much value do we get out of such investments, anyway? To answer that, in several recent papers, economists have approached this issue in clever new ways. And, though they ask slightly different questions, their conclusions share a bottom line: R&D is, in fact, one of the better long-term investments that the government can make. Read the full

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The Download: regulators are coming for AI companions, and meet our Innovator of 2025

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-09-27 08:10:00

As long as there has been AI, there have been people sounding alarms about what it might do to us: rogue superintelligence, mass unemployment, or environmental ruin. But another threat entirely—that of kids forming unhealthy bonds with AI—is pulling AI safety out of the academic fringe and into regulators’ crosshairs. This has been bubbling for a while. Two high-profile lawsuits filed in the last year, against Character.AI and OpenAI, allege that their models contributed to the suicides of two

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UTF-8 history (2003)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 14:56:00

The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike Rob Pike explains how Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 in one evening and how they together built the first system-wide implementation in less than a week.

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UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 19:56:00

The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike Rob Pike explains how Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 in one evening and how they together built the first system-wide implementation in less than a week.

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The Download: Trump’s impact on science, and meet our climate and energy honorees

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-05 11:10:00

Every year MIT Technology Review celebrates accomplished young scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors from around the world in our Innovators Under 35 list. We’ve just published the 2025 edition. This year, though, the context is different: The US scientific community is under attack. Since Donald Trump took office in January, his administration has fired top government scientists, targeted universities and academia, and made substantial funding cuts to the country’s science and technology

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Guillermo del Toro makes Frankenstein his own

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-10 03:00:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Frankenstein is one of those stories that’s been retold countless times. And yet, Guillermo del Toro has managed to make a version that not only feels true to Mary Shelley’s original, but is also imbued with the trademarks the director is known for. Maybe that shouldn’t be too surprising — when presenting the film at its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, del Toro explained that

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Digimon Story Time Stranger Preview: Can It Beat Pokemon at Its Own Game?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 02:00:00

I'm halfway through my three-hour demo playing Digimon Story Time Stranger when I finally muster the courage to de-evolve one of my most powerful monsters. Why? So I can build them back up from level 1 to be even stronger -- and grow them along a different evolutionary path. For casual players, this may sound excessive. For hardcore roleplaying game fans keen on building their fighters to the peak of performance, these expansive possibilities are exactly what they've been waiting for. Digimon S

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Digimon Story Time Stranger Preview: Can It Beat Pokémon at Its Own Game?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 07:00:00

I'm halfway through my three-hour demo playing Digimon Story Time Stranger when I finally muster the courage to de-evolve one of my most powerful monsters. Why? So I can build them back up from level 1 to be even stronger -- and grow them along a different evolutionary path. For casual players, this may sound excessive. For hardcore roleplaying game fans keen on building their fighters to the peak of performance, these expansive possibilities are exactly what they've been waiting for. Digimon S

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The Next Digimon Game's Deep Customization Could Be Catnip for Pokemon Breeders

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 03:00:03

I'm halfway through my 3-hour demo playing Digimon Story Time Stranger when I finally muster the courage to de-evolve one of my most powerful monsters. Why? So I can build them back up from level 1 to be even stronger -- and grow them along a different evolutionary path. For casual players, this may sound excessive. For hardcore role-playing game fans keen on building their fighters to the peak of performance, these expansive possibilities are exactly what they've been waiting for. Digimon Stor

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Writing by manipulating visual representations of stories

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 00:23:59

Visual Story-Writing: Writing by Manipulating Visual Representations This system automatically visualizes a story (chronological events, character and their actions and movements) and allows users to edit the story by manipulating these visual representations. For example: Hover over the timeline allows reviewing the chronology of events and visualizing the movements of the characters Connecting two characters suggests edits to the text to reflect the new interaction Moving a character sugge

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Requiem for an Exit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 13:08:20

Between 1994 and 2004, Frode Oldereid and Thomas Kvam created a series of robotic installations exploring the intersections between technology, ideology, and collective memory. These robots evoked the aesthetics of political mass movements, echoing the fractured language of 20th-century totalitarianisms and its countercultures. Two decades later, the artists revisit these themes in Requiem for an Exit. At the center of the installation stands a towering robotic figure, four meters tall—a skelet

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Amazon greenlights a Life is Strange series adaptation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 07:21:45

With Hollywood video game adaptations surging, it was only a matter of time before Life is Strange got the treatment. After all, even platformer and sandbox game adaptations have (shockingly) found success in this new era. A well-written adventure game seems like a much shorter leap. Amazon announced on Friday that Prime Video has ordered a series based on the 2015 game. Like Don't Nod's classic, the series will blend angsty teenage realism with supernatural elements and moral choices. And Amaz

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Universal Reveals a Trailer for Its Behind the Scenes Theme Park Docuseries

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-17 23:30:43

Disney gets all the press, and Six Flags has all the dancing commercials, but Universal has always had a strong position in the theme park world. Starting with a simple tour of the Universal lot in Hollywood, the film studio evolved that into several parks across the globe, all of which showcase the big, popular film and TV shows created by the studio. Then, last year, that culminated with Universal opening its most advanced park yet, Epic Universe in Orlando. And while we’ve seen plenty of doc

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Trump’s New History Exhibit Features Fake Quotes From AI-Generated Founding Fathers

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-18 03:25:03

The White House recently commissioned a new history exhibit in Washington, D.C. created by the far-right “education” group PragerU. The exhibit features 82 paintings and 40 AI videos, presenting a rather distorted view of America’s founding. The AI-generated videos even include fake quotes from the founding fathers, including one that seems like a joke. But the folks at PragerU are serious about their mission, even if the intention is to own the libs. What kind of quotes are we talking about?

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‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Will Arrive Just in Time for Halloween

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-20 11:30:20

We knew It: Welcome to Derry was arriving in October, but now we know exactly when to start looking for red balloons in the sky and paper boats in the sewer: October 26. Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Jason Fuchs’ expansion of Stephen King’s haunted Maine town as seen in the recent It movies announced the news today with a suitably festive social media post: Everyone’s dying to see IT. #ITWelcomeToDerry premieres October 26 on HBO Max.pic.twitter.com/9HqODk9P1Q — IT: Welcome to Derry

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Google did not warn 2.5B Gmail users to reset passwords

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 15:29:57

Google has disputed a widely reported story about the company warning all Gmail users to reset their passwords due to a recent data breach that also affected some Workspace accounts. This claim was covered by numerous news outlets, as well as cybersecurity firms, which published stories about the so-called "urgent warning" asking 2.5 billion Gmail users worldwide to enable two-step authentication and reset their passwords. However, as the company explained on a Monday blog post addressing thes

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No, Google did not warn 2.5 billion Gmail users to reset passwords

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-20 22:57:28

Google has disputed a widely reported story about the company warning all Gmail users to reset their passwords due to a recent data breach that also affected some Workspace accounts. This claim was covered by numerous news outlets, as well as cybersecurity firms, which published stories about the so-called "urgent warning" asking 2.5 billion Gmail users worldwide to enable two-step authentication and reset their passwords. However, as the company explained on a Monday blog post addressing thes

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Stephen King Insisted ‘The Long Walk’ Audiences Watch Teenage Characters Die

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-21 03:38:50

Following decades of false starts from previously-attached directors including George Romero, Frank Darabont, and André Øvredal, a film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novel, The Long Walk finally hits theaters later this month. It’s been a long road gettin’ from there to here, and King recently told the Times of London he had one condition before he allowed his story about a peculiarly vicious walkathon be made into a movie: Its doomed teenage cast must be shown getting shot—none of that Old

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The Download: AI doppelgängers in the workplace, and using lidar to measure climate disasters

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-23 19:10:00

—James O'Donnell Digital clones—AI models that replicate a specific person—package together a few technologies that have been around for a while now: hyperrealistic video models to match your appearance, lifelike voices based on just a couple of minutes of speech recordings, and conversational chatbots increasingly capable of holding our attention. But they’re also offering something the ChatGPTs of the world cannot: an AI that’s not smart in the general sense, but that ‘thinks’ like you do.

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Bella Ramsey Tells ‘The Last of Us’ Haters to Go Play Their Video Games

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-26 11:15:53

The online discourse surrounding The Last of Us season two was entrenched in unwarranted outrage, sparked by outrage over the show’s centering a gay love story and killing off the franchise’s leading man. The trolling, which resulted in the show getting review bombed, of course, is weird considering that both these major plot aspects are also present in Neil Druckmann’s series of Naughty Dog games. Recently Bella Ramsey, the show’s Emmy Award-nominated lead (alongside Pedro Pascal), discussed w

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‘Tron: Ares’ Uses Elements From a Decade-Old Script

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-26 23:15:38

When Tron: Ares hits theaters in October, it’ll be the end of a 15-year roller coaster ride. The second Tron, Tron: Legacy, was released in December 2010, and almost immediately, talks began about a sequel. In that time, multiple writers (15, in fact), directors, and actors attempted to return to the Grid only to fall short. But now, it’s coming, and it’s very different from what fans expected 15 years ago, though some key elements remain. One of the first writers brought on to pen Tron 3 was D

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Xbox’s cross-device play history syncs your recently played games on every screen

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-27 03:09:58

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On Thursday, Xbox announced it’s widely rolling out cross-device play history. With the new update, even if you’re on a different Xbox console, Ally handheld, or PC, your recently played game list will remain the same, so you can jump right back in where you lef

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The Download: introducing: the Security issue

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-30 11:10:00

It would be naïve to think we are going back to a world without AI. We’re not. But it's only one of many urgent problems we need to address to build security and prosperity for coming generations. The latest print issue of our magazine is all about our attempts to make the world more secure. From missiles. From asteroids. From the unknown. From threats both existential and trivial. We’re also introducing three new columns in this issue, from some of our leading writers: The Algorithm, whic

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The Download: America’s drone brothers, and an upside of AI doomerism

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-31 18:10:00

In 2024 alone, 350 known drone incursions were reported over a hundred different US military installations. A lack of coordination or even clarity from the White House, Pentagon or US intelligence community has led some in domestic law enforcement to turn to an unlikely source for help cracking the case of these mystery drones: two UFO hunters out on Long Island in New York called John and Gerald Tedesco. The twin brothers each spent about three decades in the private sector working in electr

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Deeper Than Deep: David Reich's genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 05:52:13

“It’s like the discovery of the New World,” David Reich tells me. “Everything is new, nobody’s looked at it in this way before, so how can things not be interesting?” The excitement surrounding David Reich’s ancient genetics lab at Harvard Medical School is almost palpable. Journals like Science and Nature are unstinting in their praise of the work being done in the Reich Laboratory. Reich and his colleagues are rewriting the history of the human species. Like a scientific Cecil B. DeMille, the

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The great medieval water myth (2013)

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2025-11-03 08:25:47

About Me chezjim Jim Chevallier is a food historian with a checkered past and eclectic interests. His most recent book is "Feasting with the Franks; the First French Medieval Food'; this follows a history of French bread - "Before the Baguette: The History of French Bread" - and a small work on the women who delivered bread in Paris and other cities for over a century: "They Came Bearing Bread; the Hard Lives of the Porteuses de Pain'. CHOICE magazine named his "A History of the Food of Paris: F

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Mainstream Publications Are Getting Suckered by a Ridiculous Fake News Story About a "Pregnancy Robot"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 20:19:34

From in vitro fertilization to designer babies, the world of reproductive science has seen advances over the years that have profoundly changed the way humans conceive and give birth. Unfortunately, artificial human wombs are not yet among those breakthroughs that have made the jump from concept to real life. But that hasn't stopped a number of news sites from running with a bonkers story about plans to build a humanoid "pregnancy robot" that carries real human fetuses to term in a synthetic wo

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The Download: churches in the age of AI, and how to run an LLM at home

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-11 00:10:00

On a Sunday morning in a Midwestern megachurch, worshippers step through sliding glass doors into a bustling lobby—unaware they’ve just passed through a gauntlet of biometric surveillance. High-speed cameras snap multiple face “probes” per second, before passing the results to a local neural network that distills these images into digital fingerprints. Before people find their seats, they are matched against an on-premises database—tagged with names, membership tiers, and watch-list flags—that’s

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The Download: pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native artists’ tech interpretations

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-15 09:10:00

People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments like the Turing test. But an equally important, if surprising and less appreciated, forerunner is American psychologist B.F. Skinner’s research with pigeons in the middle of the 20th century. Skinner believed that association—learning, through trial and error, to link an action with a punishment or reward—was the building block of every behavior, not just

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The Download: the CDC’s vaccine chaos

The Download: measuring returns on R&D, and AI’s creative potential

The Download: regulators are coming for AI companions, and meet our Innovator of 2025

UTF-8 history (2003)

UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike

The Download: Trump’s impact on science, and meet our climate and energy honorees

Guillermo del Toro makes Frankenstein his own

Digimon Story Time Stranger Preview: Can It Beat Pokemon at Its Own Game?

Digimon Story Time Stranger Preview: Can It Beat Pokémon at Its Own Game?

The Next Digimon Game's Deep Customization Could Be Catnip for Pokemon Breeders

Writing by manipulating visual representations of stories

Requiem for an Exit

Amazon greenlights a Life is Strange series adaptation

Universal Reveals a Trailer for Its Behind the Scenes Theme Park Docuseries

Trump’s New History Exhibit Features Fake Quotes From AI-Generated Founding Fathers

‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Will Arrive Just in Time for Halloween

Google did not warn 2.5B Gmail users to reset passwords

No, Google did not warn 2.5 billion Gmail users to reset passwords

Stephen King Insisted ‘The Long Walk’ Audiences Watch Teenage Characters Die

The Download: AI doppelgängers in the workplace, and using lidar to measure climate disasters

Bella Ramsey Tells ‘The Last of Us’ Haters to Go Play Their Video Games

‘Tron: Ares’ Uses Elements From a Decade-Old Script

Xbox’s cross-device play history syncs your recently played games on every screen

The Download: introducing: the Security issue

The Download: America’s drone brothers, and an upside of AI doomerism

Deeper Than Deep: David Reich's genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past (2017)

The great medieval water myth (2013)

Mainstream Publications Are Getting Suckered by a Ridiculous Fake News Story About a "Pregnancy Robot"

The Download: churches in the age of AI, and how to run an LLM at home

The Download: pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native artists’ tech interpretations

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