Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter Inc., speaks during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., Friday, June 4, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images During the crypto-crazy summer of 2021, when memecoins like dogecoin and Shiba Inu were floating along with bitcoin and ethereum, Square founder Jack Dorsey announced that his … Read more
Past and possible future trajectories of the Earth system. Credit: Nature Reviews Earth and Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43017-024-00597-z The Planetary Boundaries (GP) Framework is a key tool to address the climate crisis and protect the future of humanity on Earth. For the first time, the complete story of Planetary Frontiers is being told from its … Read more
In 2020, when Joe Biden won the White House, generative artificial intelligence still seemed like a toy, not a world-changing new technology. The first major AI image generator, DALL-E, wouldn’t come out until January 2021 – and it certainly wouldn’t put any artists out of business, as it still had problems generating basic images. The … Read more
Dean of Antonia M. Villarruel of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing AND Kathleen Hall Jamiesonprincipal of Penn’s Annenberg Center for Public Policyare among 60 managers in education, science, public policy, philanthropy and industry appointed to a new task force to produce a Vision for American Science and Technology (VAST). Amid growing global competition, … Read more
Mark Thomson will take over as head of CERN in January 2026. The incoming head of the European physics laboratory CERN said on Thursday that he favored moving ahead with plans for a giant particle collider far more powerful than the collider that discovered the famous “God particle”. “Scientifically, I’m convinced it’s the right option,” … Read more