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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. And the platforms are designed to create a new type of business in the deep sea.

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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Musser created the more affordable desktop model shown at top for the Seattle World’s Fair. Not only was Musser an amazing performer and composer, he was also a designer of musical instruments. Two years later, the Philippines’ Atomic Energy Commission contributed a siderite, a nickel-iron meteorite.

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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. Consumer Reports may not want to talk about it much today, but back in the 80s and the 90s, the magazine ended up costing the United States one of its most affordable, fun, and popular off-roaders ever — the Suzuki Samurai.

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Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

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Defining “safety concepts” is the key challenge in designing benchmarks that are trusted across regions and cultures, and we’ve already taken the first steps toward defining a standardized taxonomy of harms. The following MLCommons AI safety working group members contributed to this article: Ahmed M. Protik Mukhopadhyay, Protecto.ai

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