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How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)

EnlargeAHMET YARALI/Getty Meta's long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it's called Threads. The new social media app launches at a time when...

One shot of a kidney protein gave monkeys a brain boost

Enlarge Klotho, the ancient Greek goddess of fate, is responsible for spinning the thread of life. In the human body, a protein...

The US Navy, NATO, and NASA are using a shady Chinese company’s encryption chips

EnlargeBet_Noire/Getty From TikTok to Huawei routers to DJI drones, rising tensions between China and the US have made Americans—and the US government—increasingly...

They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft—and unearthed new potential for AI

EnlargeMicrosoft The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. Linxi “Jim” Fan, an AI researcher...

Yet another problem with recycling: It spews microplastics

EnlargeGetty Images The plastics industry has long hyped recycling, even though it is well awarethat it’s been a failure. Worldwide, only 9...

An ominous heating event is unfolding in the oceans

To call what’s happening in the oceans right now an anomaly is a bit of an understatement. Since March, average sea surface temperatures have...

Space archaeologists are charting humanity’s furthest frontier

Enlarge / Astronaut Kayla Barron snaps photos inside an ISS module.NASA Archaeologists have probed the cultures of people all over the Earth—so...

The fight to expose corporations’ real impact on the climate

EnlargeWalter Zerla via Getty Images Say you are a maker of computer graphics cards, under pressure from investors questioning your green credentials....

As Kenya’s crops fail, a fight over GMOs rages

EnlargeJames Wakibia/Getty Images the middle of its worst drought in 40 years. In the parched north of the country, rivers are running...

The sketchy plan to build a Russian Android phone

EnlargeJeffrey Coolidge/Getty Images Since the invasion of Ukraine one year ago, Russia has faced an exodus of tech companies and services. This...

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