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Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow
19 november 2025 · 17 min
As climate change fuels increasingly erratic weather, scientists need a better read on snowpack temperature to understand when water will reach reservoirs—and when it threatens to flood them. Lees meer
This story was written by James Temple and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert)
12 november 2025 · 23 min
Mike Rothschild has spent years studying the rise of QAnon and antivaccine conspiracism. After his house in Altadena, California, burned down, he found himself mired in similarly sticky webs of misinformation. Lees meer
This story was written by Mike Rothschild and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.
5 november 2025 · 17 min
Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process. Lees meer
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Supershoes are reshaping distance running
29 oktober 2025 · 32 min
Kenyan runners, like many others, are grappling with the impact of expensive, high-performance shoes. Lees meer
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How Antarctica’s history of isolation is ending—thanks to Starlink
22 oktober 2025 · 22 min
The seventh continent has always been a bleak, unconnected place. Elon Musk’s satellite internet is changing that, and people want to see what life is like there. Lees meer
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Inside the strange limbo facing millions of IVF embryos
15 oktober 2025 · 32 min
Frozen embryos are filling storage banks around the world. It's a struggle to know what to do with them. Lees meer
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How to measure the returns on R&D spending
8 oktober 2025 · 17 min
Forget the glorious successes of past breakthroughs—the real
justification for research investment is what we get for our money. Here’s what economists say. Lees meerThis story was written by David Rotman and narrated by Noa -
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How do AI models generate videos?
1 oktober 2025 · 13 min
With powerful video generation tools now in the hands of more people than ever, let's take a look at how they work. Lees meer
This story was written by Will Douglas Heaven and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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What’s next for AI and math
24 september 2025 · 18 min
The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on human mathematicians? Lees meer
This story was written by Will Douglas Heaven and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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How AI can help supercharge creativity
17 september 2025 · 22 min
Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipity into the process. Lees meer
This story was written by Will Douglas Heaven and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind”
10 september 2025 · 14 min
Autoencoders are letting us peer into the black box of artificial intelligence. They could help us create AI that is better understood, and more easily controlled. Lees meer
This story was written by Scott J Mulligan and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
3 september 2025 · 10 min
With a new reasoning model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek managed to turn restrictions into innovation. Lees meer
This story was written by Caiwei Chen and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming
27 augustus 2025 · 12 min
Agents could make it easier and cheaper for criminals to hack systems at scale. We need to be ready. Lees meer
This story was written by Rhiannon Williams and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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How to run an LLM on your laptop
20 augustus 2025 · 11 min
It’s now possible to run useful models from the safety and comfort of your own computer. Here’s how. Lees meer
This story was written by Grace Huckins and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Can nuclear power really fuel the rise of AI?
13 augustus 2025 · 14 min
Tech giants are looking for more energy, but building new reactors takes time. Lees meer
This story was written by Casey Crownhart and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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GPT-5 is here. Now what?
7 augustus 2025 · 8 min
The much-hyped release makes several enhancements to the ChatGPT user experience. But it’s still far short of AGI. Lees meer
This story was written by Grace Huckins and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
6 augustus 2025 · 33 min
Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge. Lees meer
This story was written by Mat Honan and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?
30 juli 2025 · 23 min
We’re starting to give AI agents real autonomy, and we’re not prepared for what could happen next. Lees meer
This story was written by Grace Huckins and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
23 juli 2025 · 11 min
There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose. Lees meer
This story was written by Shayne Longpre and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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This rare earth metal shows us the future of our planet’s resources
16 juli 2025 · 19 min
The story of neodymium reveals many of the challenges we’ll likely face across the supply chain in the coming century and beyond. Lees meer
This story was written by Casey Crownhart and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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The Biggest Questions: How did life begin?
9 juli 2025 · 19 min
AI is helping chemists unpick the mysteries around the origins of life and detect signs of it on other worlds. Lees meer
This story was written by Michael Marshall and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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The tech industry can’t agree on what open-source AI means. That’s a problem.
2 juli 2025 · 18 min
What counts as 'open-source AI'? The answer could determine who gets to shape the future of the technology. Lees meer
This story was written by Edd Gent and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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How did China come to dominate the world of electric cars?
25 juni 2025 · 20 min
From generous government subsidies to support for lithium batteries, here are the keys to understanding how China managed to build a world-leading industry in electric vehicles. Lees meer
This story was written by Zeyi Yang and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business
18 juni 2025 · 17 min
In China, people are seeking help from AI-generated avatars to process their grief after a family member passes away. Lees meer
This story was written by Zeyi Yang and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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The surprising barrier that keeps us from building the housing we need
11 juni 2025 · 19 min
Sure, there's too much red tape, but there is another reason building anything is so expensive: the construction industry's "awful" productivity. Lees meer
This story was written by David Rotman and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth
4 juni 2025 · 18 min
AI-powered BaZi analysis has become the new oracle for a disillusioned generation seeking answers. Lees meer
This story was written by Caiwei Chen and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Google, Amazon and the problem with Big Tech’s climate claims
28 mei 2025 · 19 min
How companies like Amazon and Google reach their emissions goals is more important than how fast. Lees meer
This story was written by James Temple and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Congress used to evaluate emerging technologies. Let’s do it again.
21 mei 2025 · 17 min
A look back at the Office of Technology Assessment, the Congressional think tank that detected lies and tested tech. Lees meer
This story was written by Peter Andrey Smith and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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What’s next for our privacy?
14 mei 2025 · 21 min
The US still has no federal privacy law. But recent enforcement actions against data brokers may offer some new protections for Americans’ personal information. Lees meer
This story was written by Eileen Guo and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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How Trump’s tariffs could drive up the cost of batteries, EVs, and more
7 mei 2025 · 17 min
The incoming administration’s hostile trade plans threaten to slow the shift to cleaner industries, boost inflation, and stall the economy. Lees meer
This story was written by James Temple and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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The second wave of AI coding is here
30 april 2025 · 21 min
A string of startups are racing to build models that can produce better and better software. They claim it’s the shortest path to AGI. Lees meer
This story was written by Will Douglas Heaven and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Quantum computing is taking on its biggest challenge: noise
23 april 2025 · 24 min
For a while researchers thought they’d have to make do with noisy, error-prone systems, at least in the near term. That’s starting to change. Lees meer
This story was written by Michael Brooks and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Will we ever trust robots?
16 april 2025 · 24 min
If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes? Lees meer
This story was written by James O'Donnell and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work.
9 april 2025 · 26 min
People are spending thousands of dollars on unproven exosome therapies for hair loss, skin aging, and acne, as well as more serious conditions like long covid and Alzheimer’s. Lees meer
This story was written by Jessica Hamzelou and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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The quest to figure out farming on Mars
2 april 2025 · 29 min
If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way. Lees meer
This story was written by David W. Brown and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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How tracking animal movement may save the planet
26 maart 2025 · 30 min
Researchers have been dreaming of an Internet of Animals. They’re getting closer to monitoring 100,000 creatures—and revealing hidden facets of our shared world. Lees meer
This story was written by Matthew Ponsford and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today
19 maart 2025 · 30 min
An intelligent digital agent could be a companion for life—and other predictions for the next 125 years. Lees meer
This story was written by Kara Platoni and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe
12 maart 2025 · 33 min
Startups in Latvia and other nearby countries see the mobilization of Ukraine as a warning and as inspiration. They are now changing consumer products—from scooters to recreational drones—for use on the battlefield. Lees meer
This story was written by Peter Guest and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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AI search could break the web
5 maart 2025 · 13 min
At its best, AI search can better infer a user’s intent, amplify quality content, and synthesize information from diverse sources. But if AI search becomes our primary portal to the web, it threatens to disrupt an already precarious digital economy.
Today, the production of content online depends on a fragile set of incentives tied to virtual foot traffic: ads, subscriptions, donations, sales, or brand exposure. By shielding the web behind an all-knowing chatbot, AI search could deprive creators of the visits and “eyeballs” they need to survive.
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The messy quest to replace drugs with electricity
26 februari 2025 · 41 min
“Electroceuticals” promised the post-pharma future for medicine. But the exclusive focus on the nervous system is seeming less and less warranted. Lees meer
This story was written by Sally Adee and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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The weeds are winning
19 februari 2025 · 21 min
As the climate changes, genetic engineering will be essential for growing food. But is it creating a race of superweeds? Lees meer
This story was written by Douglas Main and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Why AI could eat quantum computing’s lunch
12 februari 2025 · 19 min
Tech companies have been funneling billions of dollars into quantum computers for years. The hope is that they’ll be a game changer for fields as diverse as finance, drug discovery, and logistics.
Those expectations have been especially high in physics and chemistry, where the weird effects of quantum mechanics come into play. In theory, this is where quantum computers could have a huge advantage over conventional machines.
But while the field struggles with the realities of tricky quantum hardware, another challenger is making headway in some of these most promising use cases. AI is now being applied to fundamental physics, chemistry, and materials science in a way that suggests quantum computing’s purported home turf might not be so safe after all.
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The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age
6 februari 2025 · 28 min
We’re making more data than ever. What can—and should—we save for future generations? And will they be able to understand it? Lees meer
This story was written by Niall Firth and narrated by Noa.
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Is this the end of animal testing?
29 januari 2025 · 23 min
More than 60 companies now produce organs on chips commercially, focusing on five major organs: liver, kidney, lung, intestines, and brain. They’re already being used to understand diseases, discover and test new drugs, and explore personalized approaches to treatment. Could this be the end of animal testing?
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Meet the divers trying to figure out how deep humans can go
22 januari 2025 · 26 min
Figuring out how the human body can withstand underwater pressure has been a problem for over a century, but a ragtag band of divers is experimenting with hydrogen to find out. Lees meer
This story was written by Samantha Schuyler and narrated by Noa.
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Palmer Luckey on the Pentagon’s future of mixed reality
15 januari 2025 · 19 min
Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR, has set his sights on a new mixed-reality headset customer: the Pentagon. Lees meer
His company Anduril Industries, which focuses on drones, cruise missiles, and other AI-enhanced technologies for the US Department of Defense, announced it would partner with Microsoft on the US Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), arguably the military’s largest effort to develop a headset for use on the battlefield.
Anduril’s contribution to the project will be Lattice, an AI-powered system that connects everything from drones to radar jammers to surveil, detect objects, and aid in decision-making. It’s a tool that allows soldiers to receive instantaneous information not only from Anduril’s hardware, but also from radars, vehicles, sensors, and other equipment not made by Anduril. Now it will be built into the IVAS goggles. Luckey says the IVAS project is his top priority at Anduril.
If designed well, the device will automatically sort through countless pieces of information—drone locations, vehicles, intelligence—and flag the most important ones to the wearer in real time.
But that’s a big “if.” Though few would bet against Luckey’s expertise in the realm of mixed reality, few observers share his optimism for the IVAS program. They view it, thus far, as an avalanche of failures.
This story was written by AI reporter James O'Donnell and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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How covid conspiracy theories led to an alarming resurgence in AIDS denialism
8 januari 2025 · 36 min
Podcaster Joe Rogan, former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and football quarterback Aaron Rodgers are all helping revive AIDS denialism—a false collection of theories arguing either that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS or that there’s no such thing as HIV at all. Lees meer
These ideas were initially promoted back in the 1980s and ’90s by a cadre of scientists from unrelated fields, as well as many science-adjacent figures and self-proclaimed investigative journalists. But as more and more evidence stacked up against them, and as more people with HIV and AIDS started living longer lives thanks to effective new treatments, their claims largely fell out of favor. At least until the coronavirus arrived.
This story was written by Anna Merlan and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com
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How to fine-tune AI for prosperity
1 januari 2025 · 35 min
The newest versions of generative AI are bedazzling, with lifelike videos, seemingly expert-sounding prose, and other all too humanlike behaviors. Business leaders are fretting over how to reinvent their companies as billions flow into startups, and the big AI companies are creating ever more powerful models. Predictions abound on how ChatGPT and the growing list of large language models will transform the way we work and organize our lives, providing instant advice on everything from financial investments to where to spend your next vacation and how to get there. Lees meer
But for economists, the most critical question around our obsession with AI is how the fledgling technology will (or won’t) boost overall productivity, and if it does, how long it will take. Think of it as the bottom line to the AI hype machine: Can the technology lead to renewed prosperity after years of stagnant economic growth?
It could. But getting there will take some serious course corrections.
This story was written by editor at large David Rotman and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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Meet the radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine’s drone defense
18 december 2024 · 26 min
Despite it being over 100 years old, radio technology is still critical in almost all aspects of modern warfare—including in the drones that have come to dominate the Russia-Ukraine war. But before the war, there was a frightening vacuum of expertise. Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, who has been obsessed with radios since childhood, stepped in to fill it. Now, the unlikely hero is sharing expert advice and intel on the ever-evolving technology that’s taken over the skies. His work may determine the future of Ukraine, and wars far beyond it. Lees meer
This story was written by Charlie Metcalfe and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com
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ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.
11 december 2024 · 30 min
You can practically hear the shrieks from corner offices around the world: “What is our ChatGPT play? How do we make money off this?” Lees meer
Whether it’s based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, an AI gold rush has started to mine the anticipated business opportunities from generative AI models like ChatGPT.
But while companies and executives see a clear chance to cash in, the likely impact of the technology on workers and the economy on the whole is far less obvious.
This story was written by editor at large David Rotman and narrated by Noa.