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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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Musser created the more affordable desktop model shown at top for the Seattle World’s Fair. 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. 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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A simple keyword- or rules- based rating system for evaluating the responses is affordable and scalable, but isn’t adequate when models’ responses are complex, ambiguous or unusual. The following MLCommons AI safety working group members contributed to this article: Ahmed M. Protik Mukhopadhyay, Protecto.ai