Follow The New Yorker - Elements, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/the-new-yorker-d-elements Tue, 06 Jun 2023 01:49:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtZCXAcdWH6CSejEQ2Mq9rY Cats in Walldorf, Germany, can’t go outside when crested larks are breeding. Is it cruelty or conservation?]]> Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtZCXAcdWH6CSejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvhoyJXPFa0LV1cWWor9YPv Yet another hearing—this one with OpenAI’s Sam Altman—has come after a new technology with the possibility to fundamentally alter our lives is already in circulation.]]> Sat, 20 May 2023 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvhoyJXPFa0LV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvcmZ5rLqN6wZs0ohxaO6Yr Large language models seem startlingly intelligent. But what’s really happening under the hood?]]> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvcmZ5rLqN6wZs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWu8y7waHCkOs-zdsCmHakzH The model of aggression and dominance has infected human society. But new research shows how wrong we got it.]]> Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWu8y7waHCkOs-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvlLpdmoa1wteT5HJgy6HUf When it comes to one of humanity’s most important features, machines can grasp small patterns but not the unifying whole.]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvlLpdmoa1wteT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtA02DRr3NnWsb1naedg1wr Even balloons launched for scientific reasons have always carried political ballast.]]> Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtA02DRr3NnWsb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWt5qdAgZoHywClmFkX7M1Jw A growing body of research suggests that the unnatural lives of laboratory animals can undermine science.]]> Sat, 18 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWt5qdAgZoHywClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWsEMI-Npt2WXXn9ye8UNv30 OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWsEMI-Npt2WXXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtfWz_rIpj3QezdsCmHakzH ChatGPT is in the spotlight, but it’s Whisper—OpenAI’s open-source speech-transcription program—that shows us where machine learning is going.]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtfWz_rIpj3QezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtBlTcMqhcucezdsCmHakzH Comets are inspiring marvels in the night sky. They may also hold the secrets of habitable planets.]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtBlTcMqhcucezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuAsQeW-i7nVClmFkX7M1Jw Some of the world’s first flowers burned in wildfires more than a hundred million years ago. Else Marie Friis rediscovered them.]]> Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuAsQeW-i7nVClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWs6n59jha3del1cWWor9YPv From asteroids to A.I., this was a year of scientific superlatives.]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWs6n59jha3del1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuUBIQANYSnu-T5HJgy6HUf Japan’s space agency, JAXA, hired Takara Tomy to design a rolling lunar robot called SORA-Q. It’s now en route to the moon.]]> Wed, 21 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuUBIQANYSnu-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvVVYKC2D130uzdsCmHakzH A ninety-year-old Vermont farmer tells all.]]> Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:32:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvVVYKC2D130uzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWs5tNLIGEnwvcb1naedg1wr Sara Niksic, a lover of whales and electronic music, has merged her passions.]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:54:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWs5tNLIGEnwvcb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtH2_WBxDepAOzdsCmHakzH Inventors have been refining them for centuries. What are they trying to achieve?]]> Thu, 24 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtH2_WBxDepAOzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWum6ihB3dk6HyejEQ2Mq9rY Metabolism, which unleashes the energy in what you eat, may be nature’s most electrifying invention.]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2022 18:45:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWum6ihB3dk6HyejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuE_FWcPgcVUpVjH6qdYdAk The DART mission, in which a spacecraft knocked an asteroid off course, is a rehearsal for saving the world.]]> Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:23:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuE_FWcPgcVUpVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWthARpqheY455VjH6qdYdAk An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWthARpqheY455VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWunH2jiwUF9k-T5HJgy6HUf One of the most captivating concepts in mathematics is now on Netflix.]]> Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:00:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWunH2jiwUF9k-T5HJgy6HUf