China's AI Sprint, Climate Data From Up High, Unpacking Israel Boycotts

China's AI Sprint, Climate Data From Up High, Unpacking Israel Boycotts

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Why The U.S. Trade Blockade Can't Stop China's Sprint For All-Powerful AI

JIUJIANG, Dec. 12, 2010 Technicians examine mobile phone chips at a manufacture plant in Jiujiang, east China's Jiangxi Province

If computing power becomes a major tool for superpowers like China and the U.S., then what does the latest U.S. technology blockade mean for the race to a more powerful AI? Honk Kong-based daily The Initium looks at the nuclear race of our time, with chips as the modern-day equivalent of enriched uranium.

Article by?Yang Lu | Read more >


SATELLITE

Inside Copernicus, Where All The Data Of Climate Change Gets Captured And Crunched

Sentinel-2 orbiting Earth

As COP28 heats up, a close-up look at the massive European earth observatory program 25 years after its creation, with its disturbing monthly reports of a planet that has gotten hotter than ever.

Article by?Laura Berny | Read more >


BOYCOTT

Want To Help Gaza? Boycott Whoever Backs Israel — Even Starbucks And Seinfeld

A Protestor in New York carrying a boycott sign on Black Friday

In Egypt and elsewhere in the region and the world, families and movements are mobilizing against companies that support Israel's war on Gaza. The power of the people lies in their control as consumers — and the list of companies and brands to boycott grows longer.

Article by?Mohammed Hamama | Read more >


A.I.

AI And War: Inside The Pentagon's $1.8 Billion Bet On Artificial Intelligence

Drone on the tarmac during a military exercise near Vícenice, in the Czech Republic

Putting the latest AI breakthroughs at the service of national security raises major practical and ethical questions for the Pentagon.

Article by?Sarah Scoles | Read more >


COFFEE

Tea Be Damned! Inside The Massive Starbucks Bet On China's Shift To Coffee

Starbucks coffee in Yangshuo, China

A gigantic and multi-faceted new location near Shanghai epitomizes the American giant's ambition to quench China's growing but still-nascent thirst for coffee.

Article by?Frédéric Schaeffer | Read more >


POLAND-UKRAINE

First It Was Poland's Farmers — Now Truckers Are Protesting Ukraine's Special Status

November 27, 2023, Medyka: Trucks stand in a queue to cross the border in Korczowa as Polish farmers strike and block truck transport in Korczowa - border crossing

For the past month, Poland has been blocking off its border checkpoints to Ukrainian trucks, leaving many in days-long lines. It's a commercial and economic showdown, but it's about much more.

Article by?Katarzyna Skiba | Read more >


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