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- The Power Grid Logjam Could Soon Break
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at a limiting factor for Tesla’s Semi and The Ocean Cleanup’s push to deploy hundreds of plastic trash interceptors.
- WEBTOON And Marvel Are Launching Their New Digital App At NYCC
The new app, first announced last year, will provide subscription-based access to a library of over 35,000 digital comics from Marvel's back catalog.
- NVIDIA Head of Sustainability: how to accelerate America’s nuclear energy renaissance
For most of the last few decades, electricity demand in the United States has been relatively flat. That era is ending.
- What Time Is The Ted Lasso Season 4 Finale? Here’s The Full Schedule
The penultimate episode dropped a couple of bombs on the audience in quick succession so the show has one episode left to tie up loose ends.
- The AI industry ‘hates crypto people’—but they may need them all the same
Whatever you think of crypto people, blockchain technology may offer real solutions to the problem of rogue AI agents.
Technology
- The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026
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. People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? —Will Douglas Heaven Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM designed to come…
- Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches
Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.
- People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…
- New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
Fresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls
- EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields. Step inside the newsroom with our MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches…
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