Google Launches Vids, an AI Video Tool for Workspace Users

Announced back in April, Google is finally rolling out Vids—its video creation tool—to the Workspace ecosystem. With Google Vids, Workspace users can create videos from scratch or using pre-existing templates. You can use Vids to record voiceovers and videos of yourself or your screen (or both, simultaneously). Vids also has an AI-powered “Help me create” […]

The Download: AI vs quantum, and the future of reproductive rights in the US

Tech companies have been funneling billions of dollars into quantum computers for years. The hope is that they’ll be a game changer for fields as diverse as finance, drug discovery, and logistics. But while the field struggles with the realities of tricky quantum hardware, another challenger is making headway in some of these most promising […]

Why AI could eat quantum computing’s lunch

Modeling a weakly correlated system using DFT is not an exponentially scaling problem, though. This suggests that with more data and computing resources, AI-based classical approaches could simulate even the largest of these systems, says Tkatchenko. Given that quantum computers powerful enough to compete are likely still decades away, he adds, AI’s current trajectory suggests […]

The Download: What Trump’s victory means for the climate

—James Temple Donald Trump’s decisive victory is a stunning setback for the fight against climate change. The Republican president-elect’s return to the White House means the US is going to squander precious momentum, unraveling hard-won policy progress that was just beginning to pay off, all for the second time in less than a decade.  It […]

How to Reboot a WiFi Router

Whether you’re streaming your favorite show, working from home, or participating in an online class, a reliable internet connection is essential. Your router delivers that connection to all your wireless devices. This article shows why (and how) to restart your WiFi router to ensure optimal performance. Why Rebooting Your Router is Important WiFi routers are […]

The Download: inside animals’ minds, and how to make AI agents useful

Studying the minds of other animals comes with a challenge that human psychologists don’t usually face: Your subjects can’t tell you what they’re thinking.  To get answers from animals, scientists need to come up with creative experiments to learn why they behave the way they do. Sometimes this requires designing and building experimental equipment from […]

The Download: CRISPR’s climate promises, and protecting forests with tech

Jennifer Doudna, one of the inventors of the breakthrough gene-editing tool CRISPR, says the technology will help the world grapple with the growing risks of climate change by delivering crops and animals better suited to hotter, drier, wetter, or weirder conditions. The grand hope is that CRISPR’s ability to precisely remove specific parts of the […]