A Startup Will Try to Mine Helium-3 on the Moon

Two of Blue Origin’s earliest employees, former president Rob Meyerson and chief architect Gary Lai, have started a company that seeks to extract helium-3 from the lunar surface, return it…

Brazil is fighting dengue with bacteria-infected mosquitos

The World Mosquito Program is about to start construction on a mass rearing facility—the biggest in the world—in Curitiba. “And we believe that will allow us to essentially cover most…

The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge

Your city isn’t prepared for what’s coming. The classical method for dealing with stormwater is to get it out of town as quickly as possible, with gutters and sewers and…

States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat

The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies in a difficult situation. Major meat producers Cargill and Tyson have both invested in…

Solo Stove’s Excellent Pizza Oven Is on Sale for Pi Day

Happy Pi Day! Solo Stove is celebrating with up to $160 off sitewide when you use coupon code PIZZA during checkout. The company’s pizza ovens are on sale, but so…

Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future

This week a startup called Cognition AI caused a bit of a stir by releasing a demo showing an artificial intelligence program called Devin performing work usually done by well-paid…

The Small Company at the Center of ‘Gamergate 2.0’

“There are marginalized devs who work on these games, and they want to put that stuff in their games,” Belair says, adding that it’s strange that players feel like characters…

Craig Wright Is Not Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Judge Declares

A judge in the UK High Court has declared that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, marking the end of a years-long debate.…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Targets a Generation of Politically Disaffected, Extremely Online Men

In his continued quest to become either the president of the United States or else a very interesting footnote to someone else’s reelection, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has enlisted a…

The Download: AI’s gaming prowess, and calculating methane emissions

The news: A new AI agent from Google DeepMind can play different games, including ones it has never seen before such as Goat Simulator 3, a fun action game with…