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Climate change is throwing a snag in one of the most important considerations during the home-buying process—location. With catastrophic wildfires, hurricanes and sea-level rise climbing, experts are urging prospective homebuyers to take regional climate risks into account before settling down somewhere with a 30-year ...
A rising number of American homeowners are ready relocate this year due to extreme weather events and other climate-related concerns. ...
Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland has escalated into a full-blown international crisis. He is threatening military action against NATO ally Denmark and imposing tariffs on European countries that don’t support his quixotic quest to own the icy island. ...
A line from Ethan Mollick’s most recent newsletter (“Claude Code and What Comes Next”) caught my eye. Mollick tries out Claude Code and sees a step-change in AI capabilities: ...
One time, a good friend of mine told me that the more I learned about finance, the more pissed off I’d get. ...
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) may sound the death knell for a tool social scientists have increasingly come to rely on: online studies. Researchers who use surveys, games, and other online methods to rapidly gather data from large numbers of people have spent years refining methods to weed out unwanted ...
Like many American communities, Dublin, Ohio, grew from a small rural town in the 19th century into a sprawling suburb in the 20th. Today, it’s embracing a 21st-century development trend: walkability. ...
A little late to the party with this one, but I came across this study today and thought it was very interesting. Self-driving electric cars are often touted as a solution to fossil-fueled transit, but that comes with a lot of potential downsides that aren't always recognized. For reference, data centers are currently ...
It’s not a novel observation to say that supporters of President Donald Trump and supporters of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders find common ground on many issues. They often share a skepticism of entrenched power and a desire to dismantle systems that they think have ceased to serve everyday people. In Indiana, this agreement ...
There was a time period in recent internet history — call it the era of Big Data, or the platform era — when the large digital platforms (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix) focused on optimization. The platforms had an immutable comparative advantage over their potential competitors. They had more data, more user ...
Joe Lonsdale, a billionaire member of the “PayPal Mafia” who is also a co-founder of Palantir, wants a return to draconian punishment and public executions in the United States. ...
In an unusual op-ed in the Washington Post, a former Palantir official named Wendy R. Anderson warns Democrats: bow down to Silicon Valley oligarchs or lose the future: ...
Last week, on the decaying husk of X.com, a former Disney Channel actor posted a 90-second advertisement for his AI company, 2WAI. The ad centers around “Baby Charlie” interacting with the avatar of his deceased grandmother. ...
What would it take to make car-free living possible across the United States? The question has critical implications for the climate: Transportation is the nation’s top source of emissions, and everyday vehicles are the largest contributor within this category. ...
Jennifer and Dean Bye were just getting by before Hurricane Ida slammed into southern Louisiana in 2021. The couple own a house in a comfortable subdivision in Paulina, a town about an hour west of New Orleans, that they share with their three kids. ...
When Cornell University systems engineer Fengqi You started modeling the environmental footprint of data centers three years ago, the AI boom was just beginning. Even then, You and his colleagues noticed something missing from the conversation. ...
Mark Carney has earmarked a billion dollars in the new federal budget to build a “sovereign” AI cloud and made-in-Canada quantum computing. The goal, he says, is to retain the ability for Canadians to regulate our own digital realm and protect our privacies. ...
When automobiles first started tearing through American streets a century ago, they weren’t exactly welcome. One of the main problems was that they were killing children: in 1921 alone, 286 children in Pittsburgh, 130 in Baltimore, and 97 in Washington, D.C. Cities memorialized the dead with monuments and solemn marches. A ...
If you were an authoritarian seeking to influence another head of state, you might offer him a luxuriously appointed Boeing 747 airplane. You might spend big at his hotels or invest in one of the many companies owned by him and his children. You might buy his sneakers, NFTs and other branded products. In the case of President ...
According to new book by two of the world’s leading experts on AI risk, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, AI presents an existential risk to humanity. The title does what it says on the tin: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why superhuman AI would kill us all. ...
There are three big stories that one can tell about the dotcom crash. ...
By twisting the dials on key neurotransmitter systems in our brains, psychoactive compounds in a few kinds of mushrooms can provoke profound psychedelic experiences. The same compounds also show promise in treating illnesses such as therapy-resistant depression. But researchers don’t fully understand how they work in the ...
Earlier this week, I obtained transcripts of four private lectures Peter Thiel delivered to San Francisco tech elites about the coming of the Antichrist...Yes, really. ...
In 2022, a small group of researchers came up with a bright idea: What if we were to install a network of lamps above tropical forests, flooding them with light at night in order to boost photosynthesis? Doing this in the Amazon alone, they argued, would increase plants’ uptake of CO2 by so much that it could “completely ...
Scientists have long assumed that insects and other invertebrates can’t feel pain. As a result, these creatures are often left out of the legal and ethical guidelines that require mice, monkeys, and other laboratory animals to be treated as humanely as possible. But what would it look like to broaden these protections to the ...
