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Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious
Solar geoengineering aims to manipulate the climate by bouncing sunlight back into space. In theory, it could ease global warming. But as interest in the idea grows, so do concerns about potential consequences.
A startup called Stardust Solutions recently raised a $60 million funding round, the largest known to date for a geoengineering startup. My colleague James Temple has a new story out about the company, and how its emergence is making some researchers nervous.
So far, the field has been limited to debates, proposed academic research, and—sure—a few fringe actors to keep an eye on Download: solar geoengineering’s.. Now things are getting more serious. So what does it mean for geoengineering, and for the climate. Read the full story Download: solar geoengineering’s..
—Casey Crownhart
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here.
If you’re interested in reading more about solar geoengineering, check out:
+ Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust. Read the full story Download: solar geoengineering’s..
+ Why we need more research—including outdoor experiments—to make better-informed decisions about such climate interventions Download: solar geoengineering’s..
+ The hard lessons of Harvard’s failed geoengineering experiment, which was officially terminated last year. Read the full story.
+ How this London nonprofit became one of the biggest backers of geoengineering research.
+ The technology could alter the entire planet. These groups want every nation to have a say.
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I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 OpenAI is being sued for wrongful deathBy the estate of a woman killed by her son after he engaged in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT Download: solar geoengineering’s.. (WSJ $)+ The chatbot appeared to validate Stein-Erik Soelberg’s conspiratorial ideas Download: solar geoengineering’s.. (WP $)+ It’s the latest in a string of wrongful death legal actions filed against chatbot makers. (ABC News)
2 ICE is tracking pregnant immigrants through specifically-developed smartwatchesThey’re unable to take the devices off, even during labor. (The Guardian)+ Pregnant and postpartum women say they’ve been detained in solitary confinement Download: solar geoengineering’s.. (Slate $)+ Another effort to track ICE raids has been taken offline. (MIT Technology Review)
3 Meta’s new AI hires aren’t making friends with the rest of the companyTensions are rife between the AGI team and other divisions Download: solar geoengineering’s.. (NYT $)+ Mark Zuckerberg is keen to make money off the company’s AI ambitions. (Bloomberg $)+ Meanwhile, what’s life like for the remaining Scale AI team. (Insider $)
4 Google DeepMind is building its first materials science lab in the UKIt’ll focus on developing new materials to build superconductors and solar cells Download: solar geoengineering’s.. (FT $)
5 The new space race is to build orbital data centersAnd Blue Origin is winning, apparently. (WSJ $)+ Plenty of companies are jostling for their slice of the pie. (The Verge)+ Should we be moving data centers to space. (MIT Technology Review)
6 Inside the quest to find out what causes Parkinson’sA growing body of work suggests it may not be purely genetic after all. (Wired $)
7 Are you in TikTok’s cat niche Download: solar geoengineering’s.. If so, you’re likely to be in these other niches too. (WP $)8 Why do our brains get tired. Researchers are trying to get to the bottom of it. (Nature $)
9 Microsoft’s boss has built his own cricket app Satya Nadella can’t get enough of the sound of leather on willow. (Bloomberg $)
10 How much vibe coding is too much vibe coding. One journalist’s journey into the heart of darkness Download: solar geoengineering’s.. (Rest of World)+ What is vibe coding, exactly Download: solar geoengineering’s.. (MIT Technology Review)
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“I feel so much pain seeing his sad face…I hope for a New Year’s miracle. ”
—A child in Russia sends a message to the Kremlin-aligned Safe Internet League explaining the impact of the country’s decision to block access to the wildly popular gaming platform Roblox on their brother, the Washington Post reports.
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Why it’s so hard to stop tech-facilitated abuse
After Gioia had her first child with her then husband, he installed baby monitors throughout their home—to “watch what we were doing,” she says, while he went to work Download: solar geoengineering’s.. She’d turn them off; he’d get angry. By the time their third child turned seven, Gioia and her husband had divorced, but he still found ways to monitor her behavior Download: solar geoengineering’s..
One Christmas, he gave their youngest a smartwatch. Gioia showed it to a tech-savvy friend, who found that the watch had a tracking feature turned on. It could be turned off only by the watch’s owner—her ex.
Gioia is far from alone Download: solar geoengineering’s.. In fact, tech-facilitated abuse now occurs in most cases of intimate partner violence—and we’re doing shockingly little to prevent it. Read the full story.
—Jessica Klein
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