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What Google's U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy

Earlier this year, Google ditched its plans to abolish support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. While privacy advocates called foul, the implications for users is not so clear cut.

08/10/2024

This Man Found 1,650 Ways to Turn a Profit While Decarbonizing

Bertrand Piccard says sustainability doesn’t have to come at a cost—and that reframing attempts to hit net zero as a way of generating profit could be key to hitting targets.

07/10/2024

This Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t

British Mountain Rescue workers have developed an automated drone system that can scour a landscape far quicker and more thoroughly than human eyes.

07/10/2024

‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work

What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question.

06/10/2024

Alcohol Plays a Major Role in New Cancer Cases

A new report estimates that 40 percent of all cancer cases are associated with factors we can change—alcohol consumption being a prominent one.

05/10/2024

What You Need to Know Before You Freeze Your Eggs

Celebrities do it (or wish they had), influencers won't stop talking about it, and clinics will all but tell you to do it now. The devil, though, is in the details.

05/10/2024

Hurricane Helene Destroyed Roads. Here’s How to Rebuild—and Flood-Proof Them for Next Time

As it becomes clear that climate change devastation can hit anywhere, engineers are considering how best to protect vital thoroughfares from intense storms.

05/10/2024

Meta Can’t Use Sexual Orientation to Target Ads in the EU, Court Rules

Privacy activist Max Schrems has won another legal fight against Meta, this time limiting how the company can use off-platform activity—and public statements—to target ads.

04/10/2024

Meta’s Movie Gen Makes Convincing AI Video Clips

Meta just announced its own media-focused AI model, called Movie Gen, that can be used to generate realistic video and audioclips. The company shared multiple 10-second clips generated with Movie Gen, including a Moo Deng-esque baby hippo swimming…

04/10/2024

Wastewater Offers an Early Alarm System for Another Deadly Virus

Toward the end of last year, US health authorities got a tip-off about an upcoming wave of respiratory syncytial virus, a seasonal virus that kills 160,000 people globally every year.

04/10/2024

Making an RSV Vaccine Was Hard. Getting People to Take It Is Even Harder

New vaccines could help stem the spread of respiratory syncytial virus, but there are already huge inequities in access and uptake.

04/10/2024

The Secret Alchemy of Making Ice Cream

Ice cream is deceptively simple, but that sweet burst of flavor and soft melt on the tongue is a finicky, frozen science of water, fat, and air delicately held together.

04/10/2024