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  • The Download: AstroTurf wars and exponential AI growth

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over.  In 2001, Americans installed just over 7 million square meters of synthetic turf. By 2024, that number was 79 million square meters—enough to carpet all of Manhattan and then some. The…

  • Desalination technology, by the numbers

    When I started digging into desalination technology for a new story, I couldn’t help but obsess over the numbers. I’d known on some level that desalination—pulling salt out of seawater to produce fresh water—was an increasingly important technology, especially in water-stressed regions including the Middle East. But just how much some countries rely on desalination,…

  • Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over.

    A rare warm spell in January melted enough snow to uncover Cornell University’s newest athletic field, built for field hockey. Months before, it was a meadow teeming with birds and bugs; now it’s more than an acre of synthetic turf roughly the color of the felt on a pool table, almost digital in its saturation.…

  • The Moon is already on Google Maps—did Artemis II really tell us anything new?

    "I think the biggest value here is the PR. I mean, it's getting the public excited."

  • Trump admin makes sweeping request for medical records of federal workers

    The unprecedented proposal would give the Trump admin access to doctors' notes.

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