In 2011, DTE Energy Company removed 1,200 streetlights from the city of Highland Park, Michigan. A Black working-class suburb of Detroit that was once a boom town for the automotive industry, Highland Park was on the verge of bankruptcy. Unable to pay DTE the $4 million it was owed, the city went dark. The streetlights… Continue reading It’s Time to Reframe the Story of Climate Inequity
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The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here
Comparing those genomes to those of people without schizophrenia has allowed investigators to uncover multiple genes that have a profound impact on a person’s risk of developing it. By being able to sequence more genomes faster and more cheaply, Gabriel says they’ll be able to find additional genes that have a more subtle effect on… Continue reading The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here
13 Great Deals on Weighted Blankets, Outdoor Gear, and More
there are two types of people during the fall season: those who enjoy cozy days inside and those who like to spend time outside—soaking in the crisp air. Whether you like to curl up on the couch with a blanket and binge-watch Netflix or you’d prefer to wake up early to tackle your favorite hiking… Continue reading 13 Great Deals on Weighted Blankets, Outdoor Gear, and More
A Matrix Update Will Patch Serious End-to-End Encryption Flaws
Developers of the open source Matrix messenger protocol are releasing an update to fix critical end-to-end encryption vulnerabilities that subvert the confidentiality and authentication guarantees that have been key to the platform’s meteoric rise. Matrix is a sprawling ecosystem of open source and proprietary chat and collaboration clients and servers that are fully interoperable. The… Continue reading A Matrix Update Will Patch Serious End-to-End Encryption Flaws
The Sustainable Future of Food Must Bring Everyone to the Table
How can we feed the world sustainably? Right now, 325 million people are acutely hungry. 35 million Americans don’t know where their next meal will come from. The world’s food systems are uneven, fragile, and only becoming more fragile with the climate crisis. “When we talk about from farm-to-fork, we need to transform the food… Continue reading The Sustainable Future of Food Must Bring Everyone to the Table
‘We Are the Asteroid’: The Case for Hope Amid Climate Fears
Earth’s atmosphere, as it exists, is both a profound statistical anomaly and the very thing that makes human life possible. Human activity is upsetting that natural balance, but there’s hope—and everyone needs to pitch in. That’s what leading voices in the world of climate science, art, and activism told us during the first session of… Continue reading ‘We Are the Asteroid’: The Case for Hope Amid Climate Fears
The Race to Find the Nord Stream Saboteurs
Investigators across Europe, including intelligence agencies, will now be trying to piece together exactly who and what caused the apparent explosions. This is likely to involve multiple steps, such as examining what data is held about the area, including seismic data and other sensors, checking whether any communications around the incident have been intercepted, and… Continue reading The Race to Find the Nord Stream Saboteurs
Google Borrows From TikTok to Keep Gen Z Searching
In July, the Google executive who oversees the company’s lucrative and dominant search engine made a surprising admission. Younger users were diverting questions that would once have naturally flowed to the iconic search box to social networks, Prabhakar Raghavan said at a Forbes conference. Take the example of where to go for lunch: Google’s studies… Continue reading Google Borrows From TikTok to Keep Gen Z Searching
Everything Amazon Announced at Its Annual Hardware Event
Amazon announced a Prime Early Access Sale earlier this week (aka Prime Day 2.0), but today, the company took the wraps off of some new hardware it’s been cooking up over the past year. That includes new Echo speakers, as usual, but there are some surprises too, such as the Kindle Scribe—the first Kindle you… Continue reading Everything Amazon Announced at Its Annual Hardware Event
Amazon Wants to Cocoon You With ‘Ambient Intelligence’
That project is now personified by today’s announcement of Halo Rise, the $140 “no-contact bedside sleep tracker, smart alarm and wake-up light” that picks up signals from your bedroom that even the partner sleeping beside you won’t notice. (To get the best use of that data to improve sleep, users must subscribe to the premium… Continue reading Amazon Wants to Cocoon You With ‘Ambient Intelligence’