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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. At daybreak, the cranks pull the ring back up to the surface to soak up sunlight and carbon dioxide.

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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Clair Omar Musser, an engineer working for Scientific Space Industries, a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft, took up the challenge. Two years later, the Philippines’ Atomic Energy Commission contributed a siderite, a nickel-iron meteorite. An abridged version of this article appears in the October 2023 print issue as “No Ordinary Orrery.”

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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A look at the current political climate in countries such as the United States and the Philippines would show this. Such is simply the nature of the car industry. And for the most part, this is okay, especially if members of certain tribes are willing to coexist with the other. Congratulations on the Mach E!

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Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

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All the parts of our computing systems today are benchmarked—that is, compared to similar components in a controlled way, with quantitative score assessments. As leaders in the field of AI, from both industry and academia, we build and deliver the most widely used performance benchmarks for AI systems in the world. And we would know.