How sounds can turn us on to the wonders of the universe
In the cavernous grand ballroom of the Seattle Convention Center, Sarah Kane stood in front of an oversize computer monitor, methodically reconstructing the life history of the Milky Way. Waving her shock of long white hair as she talked (“I’m easy to spot from a distance,” she joked), she outlined the “Hunt for Galactic Fossils,”…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/19/1074049/universe-sonification/
Got rejuvenation? Better call security
It’s not every day that police storm through the doors of a scientific session and eject half the audience. But that is what occurred on Friday at the Boston Convention Center during a round of scientific presentations featuring Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a specialist in “rejuvenation” technology at a secretive, wealthy, anti-aging startup called Altos…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/17/1075097/got-rejuvenation-better-call-security/
The Download: waiting at the US border, and seaweed’s carbon capture shortcomings
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The new US border wall is an app Keisy Plaza, 39, left her home in Colombia seven months ago. She walked a 62-mile stretch of dense mountainous rainforest and swampland with her two…
The new US border wall is an app
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A few minutes before 9 a.m. on a day in late March, Keisy Plaza, 39, leans against a wall on the corner of Juárez Avenue and Gardenias Street in Ciudad Juárez. It’s the last intersection before Mexico turns into El Paso, Texas, and a stream of commuters drive past on their way to work and…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/16/1074039/border-wall-app/
Fireside chat with Comcast: Transforming service experience with smart data replication
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Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” In this video, Pavel Müller, SnowMirror creator and co-founder of GuideVision – an Infosys company, chats with Steve Zadroga, senior automation engineer at Comcast, on how they have overcome Comcast’s business challenges, accelerated their transformation to the cloud, and delivered exceptional…
Seaweed farming for carbon dioxide capture would take up too much of the ocean
If we’re going to prevent the gravest dangers of global warming, experts agree, removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is essential. That’s why, over the past few years, projects focused on growing seaweed to suck CO2 from the air and lock it in the sea have attracted attention—and significant amounts of funding—from…
Lefdal Mine Datacenter goes green with a secure and flexible cloud
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Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Lefdal Mine Datacenter’s chief marketing officer, Mats Andersson, takes us through the planning and execution of the “Norwegian Solution,” one of the greenest data centers on the planet. Click here to continue.
Stock exchanges move to the public cloud to maximize tech-based innovations
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Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” As most stock exchanges shift from highly optimized, private, on-premise infrastructure to the public cloud, get an insight into the business drivers for transformational change and the technologies shaping the future direction of stock market trading. Click here to continue.
Impact of generative AI on chatbots
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Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Generative AI can enable chatbots to provide meaningful and relevant responses to users, but there are risks and challenges that must be considered when adopting it. Click here to continue.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/15/1074743/impact-of-generative-ai-on-chatbots/
Syngenta scales its business with a reliable cloud-first strategy
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Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Syngenta, an agrochemical company, migrated to the cloud to handle seasonal demands and higher workloads by scaling up during peak seasons and scaling back as needed. Click here to continue.
The Download: ending image poverty, and EV chargers’ power struggle
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How tactile graphics can help end image poverty —Chancey Fleet In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic lockdown, my husband and I bought a house in Brooklyn and decided to reimagine and…
Best practices for a successful SaaS cloud transformation journey
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Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Best practices gathered from a wide range of Oracle cloud engagements and enterprise transformation journeys to successfully navigate any Oracle cloud transformation program. Click here to continue.
In the clash of the EV chargers, it’s Tesla vs. everyone else
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This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. I love a good rivalry story. In soda it’s Coke vs. Pepsi, in baseball it’s Yankees vs. Red Sox, and in EV fast chargers it’s Tesla vs. everyone else. Fine, that last…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/15/1074775/ev-chargers-tesla-nacs-superchargers/
How tactile graphics can help end image poverty
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In 2020, in the midst of pandemic lockdown, my husband and I bought a house in Brooklyn and decided to reimagine and rebuild the interior. We began talking through our ideas about how to arrange each detail, from an open kitchen to bathroom fixtures, but before long we realized that imprecise language was slowing us…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/15/1074036/ending-image-poverty/
The Download: heat pumps for everyone, and fake Twitter accounts in China
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The surprising truth about which homes have heat pumps The news: Heat pumps, which use electricity to both heat and cool homes, are now just as common in low-income households in the US…
Asia’s opportunity for generative AI
Suddenly, everybody is talking about generative artificial intelligence (AI). (Disclaimer: this article is written by a human.) The idea of software that generates dynamic, customized content is exciting. While chatbots have existed for years, a rapidly expanding suite of generative AI-based image, video, and text generators such as DALL-E 2, Fotor, Runway, AlphaCode, and ChatGPT…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/14/1074434/asias-opportunity-for-generative-ai/
The Download: heat pumps for everyone, and fake Twitter accounts in China
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The surprising truth about which homes have heat pumps The news: Heat pumps, which use electricity to both heat and cool homes, are now just as common in low-income households in the US…
The surprising truth about which homes have heat pumps
Heat pumps are having a surprisingly equitable moment in the spotlight. Using electricity, heat pumps can both heat and cool homes. And according to new research, the appliances are now just as common in low-income households in the US as they are in wealthier homes. That pattern is unusual among consumer climate technologies, many of…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/14/1074652/residential-heat-pumps-cost/
The surprising truth about which homes have heat pumps
Heat pumps are having a surprisingly equitable moment in the spotlight. Using electricity, heat pumps can both heat and cool homes. And according to new research, the appliances are now just as common in low-income households in the US as they are in wealthier homes. That pattern is unusual among consumer climate technologies, many of…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/14/1074652/residential-heat-pumps-cost/
The surprising truth about which homes have heat pumps
Heat pumps are having a surprisingly equitable moment in the spotlight. Using electricity, heat pumps can both heat and cool homes. And according to new research, the appliances are now just as common in low-income households in the US as they are in wealthier homes. That pattern is unusual among consumer climate technologies, many of…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/14/1074652/residential-heat-pumps-cost/