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Technology & Science

Science asks how the world works. Technology takes those answers and folds them back into daily life, often in ways that change the questions we ask next. The two move in a loop, discovery feeding invention, invention reshaping discovery. Their relationship is less about progress than about feedback, where each step forward carries side effects that ripple quietly through everything it touches. They both show how knowledge and tools evolve side by side, shaping both possibility and perception.

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CRISPR Inches Toward Silencing Down Syndrome

Down syndrome happens when there's an extra copy of chromosome 21, often called Trisomy 21. The cause is straightforward, but finding a fix is incredibly difficult. Recently, two different research teams found a way to use CRISPR like a genetic cleanup crew, either by turning off the extra

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TikTok Tracks Non-Users Across the Web

I was looking over some BBC coverage about TikTok earlier. It’s pretty unsettling how much data they're actually grabbing. Apparently, the app uses these tiny "pixels"—basically invisible bits of code hidden on other websites—to track what you're doing elsewhere. These trackers

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xAI Co-Founders Bolt After SpaceX Merger

The Verge just dropped a report on the fallout at xAI following its $1.25 trillion merger with SpaceX last week. A few employees and two of the co-founders have already quit. Both Jimmy Ba and Yuhai (Tony) Wu shared the news of their exits on X. Wu mentioned he’

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Anthropic Pledges to Shield Electricity Bills from Data Centers

I have been reading about electricity bills for the last hour, which is a sentence that would concern a therapist if I had one. Specifically, I have been reading about Anthropic's promise last week to cover the full cost of grid upgrades its data centers require, rather than

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Safety Dead Ends: Goal Drift at xAI and the Incentives Behind Unhinged AI

When a former staffer at a big AI lab comes out and says the safety team is basically a skeleton crew and the CEO wants the model to act more "unhinged," it doesn't always make waves. In this industry, that kind of talk has become almost