The Download: longevity myths, and sewer-cleaning robots

This is today's edition of the download, our weekday newsletter, which offers a daily dose of what is going on in the world of technology. According to Putin, organ transplants could grant immortality. Not quite. - Jessica Hamzelou at the beginning of this week my editor forwarded me a video of the leaders of Russia and China who talked about immortality. "Nowadays they are still a child at the age of 70," China's XI Jinping, 72, was translated. "With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live disciples and younger and even reach immortality," the Russia's Vladimir Putin, also 72, replied. In reality, rounds of organ transplant surgery probably do not help that they will soon extend their lifespan radically. And it is a simplified way to think about aging - such a complicated process that the researchers cannot agree on what it causes, why it occurs or how to define it, let alone "treat". Read the whole story. This article first appeared in the study of the weekly biotech newsletters from with Technology Review. To get it every Thursday in your inbox and first read items like this, register here. India uses robots to clean sewage pipes so that people no longer have to do when a child was in Neu -Delhi. Both parents worked as a manual aa -eater - a job in which the sewage system of the city was deleted by hand. Now he belongs to almost 200 contractors who are involved in the efforts of the government in Delhi to shift from this manual process to safer mechanical methods. Although it has been prohibited since 1993, it is still widespread in India to extract manual appearance - the practice of extracting human excreta from toilets, sewer or sewage pits. And not only the job is unworthy, but also extremely dangerous. Now several companies have emerged to offer alternatives in a variety of technical complexity. Read the whole story. - Hamaad Habibullah This story comes from our new print edition, which deals with the future of security. Subscribe here to catch future copies when you land. The must-reads that I combed on the Internet to find them from fun/most important/fascinating/fascinating stories about technology today. 1 RFK JR has buried a large study that clearly connects alcohol and cancer. The intensive lobbying of the alcohol industry for Trump management works. (VOX) + RFK JR repeated the falsehoods of health during a hearing of the marathon in the Senate yesterday. (Mother Jones) + his anti-vaccine posture alerted Democrats and Republicans alike. (The Atlantic $) 2 US tech giants want to embed AI into education. They support a vague formulated initiative in this effect that Melania Trump started. (Rolling Stone $) + Tech Leaders changed to praise Trump during dinner. (Wsj $) + Elon Musk was nowhere to be seen. (The Guardian) + Ai's Giants want to take over the classroom. (With Technology Review) 3 The FTC will examine AI company about their effects on children to evaluate whether chatbots affect their mental health. (WSJ $) + A KI accompanying page organizes sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots. (With Technology Review) 4 Podcasting -Riese Joe Rogan has spread climate information. He interpreted the research of the scientists very wrongly - and they are upset. (The guard) + Rogan claims that the earth temperature drops. It's not like that. (Forbes) + why climate protection researchers take the temperature of the mountain snow. (With Technology Review) 5 Deepseek works on its own advanced AI agent Openaai. (Bloomberg $) 6 Openai will produce his own AI chips next year to reduce trust in Nvidia. (Ft $) 7 Warner Bros sues Midjourney The KI startup used the similarities of characters, including Superman, without permission. (Bloomberg $) + What's next for AI copyright lawsuits? (With Technology Review) 8 rivers and lakes are used to cool down buildings, but networks in Paris, Toronto, the USA, are faced with an impending problem. (WIRED $) + The future of the urban living space is energy -efficient refrigerators. (With Technology Review) 9 How High School -Redes Associations survive in the age of the curiosity of social media, it is a strong driving force, it seems. (The Atlantic $) 10 Facebooks Poke feature is back when I still used Facebook, I would be thrilled. (TechCrunch) Quote of the day "Even if they are not transformed into the alien, if you eat this stuff, I guarantee that you grow an additional ear." - Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, warns of poor consequences when the Americans eat different countries than the USA, reports Gizmodo. Another thing why a developer is not stopped combining the US networks has not learned to take NO for an answer. In the past 15 years, the energy entrepreneur has worked to develop long -distance transmission lines to wear wind power in the Great Plains, in the middle west and in the southwest. But so far he has little to show to show the effort. Skelly has long argued that the structure of such lines and the connections of the nation of the nation would accelerate the relocation of power plants with coal and natural gas power plants to renewable energies that are necessary to reduce the pollution of climate change. But his previous business was closed in 2019 after stopping two of his projects and sold in three further interests. Skelly claims that he was early and not wrong. And he has one point: market and political decision-makers are increasingly getting into his perspective. Read the whole story. - James Temple We can still have nice things to get comfort, fun and distraction to lighten your day. (Have any ideas? Write me a line or skeet it on me.) + The newspaper, the new mockumentary from the creators of the American office, looks interesting. + Giorgio Armani was a real Maestro from men's fashion. + The phases of the moon are quite fascinating + The video for Blurs Classic Country House, directed by Damien Hirst, has received a 4K revision.