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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s happening in the tech world. What’s next for quantum computing For years, the quantum news cycle has been dominated by headlines about record-setting systems. But this year, researchers are stepping out of the hype and into real-world life […]

Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan is ushering in the new year with another step in her effort to reinterpret or re-enforce the agency’s rules to stop what she sees as systemic anti-labor and anti-competitive actions. This time, she’s looking for non-compete clauses, framing them as anti-competitive and therefore within the agency’s purview. The FTC […]

“Each line of business is driving digital transformation in its own way,” says Naveen Kamat, CEO and CTO of data and AI services at Kyndryl, an IT infrastructure services provider. “They deploy their own applications in the cloud, which generate data every day. Then comes data from the web and social media. Enterprise data is […]

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s happening in the tech world. What’s next for mRNA vaccines As the covid pandemic began, we were warned that wearing face masks, disinfecting everything we touch and staying away from other people were the only ways we could […]

Artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere — or at least, that’s what it seems like to me: A few weeks ago, a friend mentioned in passing that his law professor had warned students not to cheat with AI on an upcoming exam. At the same time, I couldn’t escape the uncanny portraits people were generating with […]

Here’s the standard streaming TV joke/complaint: There are so many different services that someone should just bundle them all together, and then you’d pay just one monthly fee for everything. You know, just like cable TV! Ho Ho Ho. The thing is, none of the people who run streaming TV services think that there will […]

But the science of attribution can do much more than tell us how climate change affects the weather. Otto wants to use its attribution reports to hold polluters responsible for extreme weather. “We started working a lot with lawyers, to basically bridge this knowledge gap between what we can say scientifically and what’s been used […]