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How NASA Testing Changed US Food Inspection Forever
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How NASA Testing Changed US Food Inspection Forever

In the early 20th century, public outcry following Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to stricter food safety protocols. NASA took them a step further.

📅 2026-09-08 11:00:00    •    WIRED
This founder is teaching chips how to recycle (their energy)
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This founder is teaching chips how to recycle (their energy)

Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice. Earley, 31, is cofounder and chief technology officer of Vaire Computing, a startup building chips that recycle energy usually thrown away as heat—a strategy known as reversible computing.…

📅 2026-09-08 10:36:00    •    MIT Technology Review
This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected
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This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected

Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of furniture. But what it lacks in decor, it makes up…

📅 2026-09-08 10:34:00    •    MIT Technology Review
Introducing AI-as-a-Service
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Introducing AI-as-a-Service

As agentic AI evolves, the impact will be felt throughout the industry - especially on SaaS.

📅 2026-09-08 10:33:35    •    TechRadar
This founder is making cheaper, cleaner steel
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This founder is making cheaper, cleaner steel

The steel industry isn’t exactly known for innovation. Very little has changed about purifying iron ore since the process was invented and commercialized in the 1850s. The majority of steelmakers melt solid iron ore at dizzyingly high temperatures inside blast furnaces, where the material reacts with gases to trigger chemical reactions that remove oxygen. It…

📅 2026-09-08 10:33:00    •    MIT Technology Review
This geneticist’s age-reversal tech could help restore sight
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This geneticist’s age-reversal tech could help restore sight

Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu is obsessed with aging. And with eyes. As he steps outside the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his aviator glasses darken automatically in the sun. Age-related blindness runs in his family. A great-aunt in China, the story goes, was killed crossing a road because she couldn’t see oncoming traffic. And Lu’s own…

📅 2026-09-08 10:32:00    •    MIT Technology Review