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Technology · Right to repair
…are increasingly governed by software, and to the risk of someone reaching a whole fleet of machines through an unguarded port. Ash also points out that owners are not entirely shut out. Since 2021, anyone with…
Technology · Machines
…national weather service, and, increasingly, companies training artificial intelligence models. Machines like these turn almost all the electricity they consume into heat, and the heat has to go somewhere. Hesk One…
Politics · Public works
…surfacing as joint five-year framework contracts, so that firms could see far enough ahead to buy machines and train crews. Tender prices, which had spiked in the first summer, had fallen back below their 2020 level by…
Technology · Language
…coordinates 63 volunteers who transcribe, correct and translate. The big languages are taught to machines with hundreds of billions of words gathered from the open web. Orvan has no such web. Its 2.3 million words come…
Science · Climate
…size of a beer crate, with a coil of black rubber hose beside it, and it woke the way old machines do: a hiss, a tick, a cough, then a steady breath of steam that rose into air so still the plume hardly bent.…