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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. Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person.

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. Introducing: the Power issue Energy is power. Those who can produce it, especially lots of it, get to exert authority in all sorts of ways.  The world is increasingly powered by both

After Gioia had her first child with her then husband, he installed baby monitors throughout their home—to “watch what we were doing,” she says, while he went to work. She’d turn them off; he’d get angry. By the time their third child turned seven, Gioia and her husband had divorced, but he still found ways

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 AI can help make cities work better In recent decades, cities have become increasingly adept at amassing all sorts of data. But that data can have limited impact when government officials

Plus: Midjourney is being sued by major movie studios 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. Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys? In recent months, a new class of agents has arrived on the scene: ones

Plus: chatbots can't keep up with the LA riots 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. Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI Amsterdam thought it was on the right track. City officials in the welfare department

Plus: Los Angeles protestors set Waymos alight while opposing Trump's immigration raids 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 a 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics —Jon Keegan As a child of an electronic engineer, I spent

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. What’s next for AI and math The modern world is built on mathematics. Math lets us model complex systems such as the way air flows around an aircraft, the way financial markets