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Calling the defense of democracy “the defining challenge of our time,” on December 9-10, 2021, President Biden convened world leaders in the

The US is pushing for a major new research agenda to better measure greenhouse gas emissions, according to Eric Lander, presidential science advisor, responding to long-standing concerns that current ways of calculating emissions are inaccurate and open to manipulation. Lander said that the world “can’t rely solely on self-reporting by each country based so heavily on indirect activity-based emissions estimates” in a speech this week to the American Geophysical Union.

Media coverage of the December 8-10 Summit for Democracy has largely focused on President Joe Biden’s remarks, coupled with critical reactions from China, Russia, and skeptical U.S. pundits. Few U.S. commentators seem to have bothered to listen to the three days of often thoughtful remarks by other world leaders and the many intelligent, emotionally engaging panelists representing a broad swath of civil society, business, and academia.

They will do this through the Tech4Democracy Challenge, an initiative that seeks to promote technologies that reaffirm democratic systems.

The government has agreed with UK mobile network operators Vodafone, EE, Virgin Media O2 and Three that 2033 will be the date by which all public 2G and 3G networks in the UK will be switched off.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri will testify before Congress today.

We are in the midst of a moment where AI is under the microscope, with policymakers picking apart AI contributions and demanding that AI meet high standards of performance. However, I fear in the drive to make AI better, the perfect may become the enemy of the good.

New international support for innovative technologies

French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation Frédérique Vidal, PhD, visited the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative (CSCI) on Saturday, Dec

And President Joe Biden prepares for his call with Vladimir Putin.