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Why tech companies want to put data centres in space
AI's hunger for electricity is running into the limits of power grids. Orbit offers constant sunlight, and a long list of engineering problems.
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Explainers
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ScienceExplainer
How CRISPR works, in five minutes
It started as a bacterial immune system and became the most important gene-editing tool in biology. Here's the idea, without the jargon.
AIExplainer
What is an AI agent? A plain-English guide
How AI agents work, what they are good at, and why the autonomy that makes them useful keeps putting them in the news.
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RAG, fine-tuning or long context? How to give an AI model your own data
Three ways to make a model know about your documents, products or codebase, what each is good at, and a simple way to choose.
ScienceExplainer
Quantum computing, explained without the hype
What qubits are, why errors are the whole problem, and which jobs quantum computers might eventually do better than any supercomputer.