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2024-10-18 09:30:12

Oropouche virus is spreading. Here’s what we know.
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. There have been plenty of reports of potentially concerning viruses this last year. Covid is still causing thousands of deaths, and bird flu appears set to make the…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/18/1105829/oropouche-virus-spreading-heres-what-we-know/

2024-10-14 12:45:09

The Download: growing Africa’s food, and deleting your 23andMe data
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Africa fights rising hunger by looking to foods of the past After falling steadily for decades, the prevalence of global hunger is now on the rise—nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa. Conflicts,…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/14/1105521/the-download-growing-africas-food-and-deleting-your-23andme-data/

2024-10-14 08:45:09

Africa fights rising hunger by looking to foods of the past
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The first time the rains failed, the farmers of Kanaani were prepared for it. It was April of 2021, and as climate change had made the weather increasingly erratic, families in the eastern Kenyan village had grown used to saving food from previous harvests. But as another wet season passed with barely any rain, and…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/14/1105070/africa-crops-maize-kenya-climate-change-agriculture/

2024-10-11 09:30:11

These are the best ways to measure your body fat
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. This week, an office conversation turned to body weight. We all know that being overweight is not great for your health—it’s linked to metabolic diseases like diabetes and…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/11/1105421/these-are-the-best-ways-to-measure-your-body-fat/

2024-10-10 12:45:09

The Download: herbicide-resistant weeds, and an octopus-inspired adhesive
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The weeds are winning Since the 1980s, more and more plants have evolved to become immune to the biochemical mechanisms that herbicides leverage to kill them. This herbicidal resistance threatens to decrease yields—out-of-control…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/10/1105415/the-download-herbicide-resistant-weeds-and-an-octopus-inspired-adhesive/

2024-10-10 09:45:09

The weeds are winning
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On a languid, damp July morning, I meet weed scientist Aaron Hager outside the old Agronomy Seed House at the University of Illinois’ South Farm. In the distance are round barns built in the early 1900s, designed to withstand Midwestern windstorms. The sky is a formless white. It’s the day after a storm system hundreds…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/10/1105034/weeds-climate-change-genetic-engineering-superweeds-food/

2024-10-09 12:00:15

Google DeepMind wins joint Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein prediction AI
In a second Nobel win for AI, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and John M. Jumper, a director at Google DeepMind, for their work on using artificial intelligence to predict the structures of proteins,…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/09/1105335/google-deepmind-wins-joint-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-for-protein-prediction-ai/

2024-10-08 13:15:08

Adobe wants to make it easier for artists to blacklist their work from AI scraping
Adobe has announced a new tool to help creators watermark their artwork and opt out of having it used to train generative AI models. The web app, called Adobe Content Authenticity, allows artists to signal that they do not consent for their work to be used by AI models, which are generally trained on vast…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/08/1105234/adobe-wants-to-make-it-easier-for-artists-to-blacklist-their-work-from-ai-scraping/

2024-10-03 12:30:12

The Download: training robots with gen AI, and the state of climate tech
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI-generated images can teach robots how to act Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, and they’ve recently been used for everything from highlighting their own inherent bias…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/03/1104966/the-download-training-robots-with-gen-ai-and-the-state-of-climate-tech/

2024-10-02 09:30:12

Europa Clipper set to look for life-friendly conditions around Jupiter
NASA is poised to launch Europa Clipper, a $5.2 billion mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, as early as October 10. The spacecraft will blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. It will study Europa, a possible home for extraterrestrial life, through a series of flybys after reaching Jupiter…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/02/1104818/europa-clipper-set-to-look-for-life-friendly-conditions-around-jupiter/

2024-09-25 23:30:10

Want AI that flags hateful content? Build it.
Humane Intelligence, an organization focused on evaluating AI systems, is launching a competition that challenges developers to create a computer vision model that can track hateful image-based propaganda online. In partnership with Nordic counterterrorism group Revontulet, the bounty program opens September 26, is open to anyone who wants to compete, and promises $10,000 in prizes…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/25/1104519/ai-models-hate-imagery-humane-intelligence-bounty-competition/

2024-09-24 11:45:08

Coming soon: Our 2024 list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
MIT Technology Review set out last year to recognize 15 companies from around the world that demonstrated they have a real shot at meaningfully driving down greenhouse-gas emissions and safeguarding society from the worst impacts of climate change. We’re excited to announce that we took up the task again this year and will publish our…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/24/1104265/coming-soon-2024-15-climate-tech-companies-watch/

2024-09-23 14:00:18

Addressing climate change impacts
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The reality of climate change has spurred enormous public and private investment worldwide, funding initiatives to mitigate its effects and to adapt to its impacts. That investment has spawned entire industries and countless new businesses, resulting in the creation of new green jobs and contributions to economic growth. In the United States, this includes the…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/23/1103998/addressing-climate-change-impacts/

2024-09-23 09:15:12

Some countries are ending support for EVs. Is it too soon?
Sales of new electric vehicles in Germany have plummeted, dropping nearly 37% in July 2024 from the same month one year ago. One of the main reasons traces back to mid-December 2023, when the German government gave less than one week’s notice before ending its subsidy program for electric vehicles. The program had given drivers…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/23/1104247/ending-ev-subsidies/

2024-09-20 09:15:11

Flu season is coming—and so is the risk of an all-new bird flu
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. September will soon be drawing to a close. The kids are back to school, and those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are experiencing the joys the end…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/20/1104194/flu-season-risk-of-all-new-bird-flu/

2024-09-19 12:45:12

The Download: bird flu concerns, and tracking AI’s impact on elections
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why virologists are getting increasingly nervous about bird flu Bird flu has been spreading in dairy cows in the US—and the scale is likely to be far worse than it looks. In addition,…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/19/1104187/the-download-bird-flu-concerns-and-tracking-ais-impact-on-elections/

2024-09-19 10:45:11

How AI can help spot wildfires
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. In February 2024, a broken utility pole brought down power lines near the small town of Stinnett, Texas. In the following weeks, the fire reportedly sparked by that equipment grew to burn…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/19/1104174/how-ai-can-help-spot-wildfires/

2024-09-19 09:00:17

Why virologists are getting increasingly nervous about bird flu
Bird flu has been spreading in dairy cows in the US—and the scale of the spread is likely to be far worse than it looks. In addition, 14 human cases have been reported in the US since March. Both are worrying developments, say virologists, who fear that the country’s meager response to the virus is…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/19/1104183/virologists-increasingly-nervous-bird-flu/

2024-09-18 23:30:14

AI-generated content doesn’t seem to have swayed recent European elections
AI-generated falsehoods and deepfakes seem to have had no effect on election results in the UK, France, and the European Parliament this year, according to new research. Since the beginning of the generative-AI boom, there has been widespread fear that AI tools could boost bad actors’ ability to spread fake content with the potential to…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/18/1104178/ai-generated-content-doesnt-seem-to-have-swayed-recent-european-elections/

2024-09-12 18:30:11

Chatbots can persuade people to stop believing in conspiracy theories
The internet has made it easier than ever before to encounter and spread conspiracy theories. And while some are harmless, others can be deeply damaging, sowing discord and even leading to unnecessary deaths. Now, researchers believe they’ve uncovered a new tool for combating false conspiracy theories: AI chatbots. Researchers from MIT Sloan and Cornell University…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/12/1103930/chatbots-can-persuade-people-to-stop-believing-in-conspiracy-theories/

2024-09-12 13:30:12

Google’s new tool lets large language models fact-check their responses
As long as chatbots have been around, they have made things up. Such “hallucinations” are an inherent part of how AI models work. However, they’re a big problem for companies betting big on AI, like Google, because they make the responses it generates unreliable. Google is releasing a tool today to address the issue. Called…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/12/1103926/googles-new-tool-lets-large-language-models-fact-check-their-responses/

2024-09-11 08:45:09

Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries
I was raised in the 1980s and ’90s, and for my generation and generations before us, the public library was an equalizing force in every town, helping anyone move toward the American dream. In Chantilly, Virginia, where I grew up, it didn’t matter if you didn’t have a computer or your parents lacked infinite money…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/11/1103838/why-a-ruling-against-the-internet-archive-threatens-the-future-of-americas-libraries/

2024-09-10 12:00:14

2024 Innovator of the Year: Shawn Shan builds tools to help artists fight back against exploitative AI
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Shawn Shan is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2024 Innovators Under 35. Meet the rest of this year’s honorees. When image-generating models such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion kick-started the generative AI boom in early 2022, artists started noticing odd similarities between AI-generated images and those they’d created themselves. Many found that their work…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/10/1102936/innovator-year-shawn-shan-2024/

2024-09-09 15:30:12

To be more useful, robots need to become lazier
Robots perceive the world around them very differently from the way humans do. When we walk down the street, we know what we need to pay attention to—passing cars, potential dangers, obstacles in our way—and what we don’t, like pedestrians walking in the distance. Robots, on the other hand, treat all the information they receive…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/09/1103733/to-be-more-useful-robots-need-to-become-lazier/

2024-09-09 12:30:12

The Download: Roblox’s generative AI, and tech for humanity
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Roblox is launching a generative AI that builds 3D environments in a snap What’s new: Roblox has announced plans to roll out a generative AI tool that will let creators make whole 3D…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/09/1103728/the-download-robloxs-generative-ai-and-tech-for-humanity/

2024-09-06 17:45:08

Roblox is launching a generative AI that builds 3D environments in a snap
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Roblox plans to roll out a generative AI tool that will let creators make whole 3D scenes just using text prompts, it announced today. Once it’s up and running, developers on the hugely popular online game platform will be able to simply write “Generate a race track in the desert,” for example, and the AI…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/06/1103707/roblox-is-launching-a-generative-ai-that-builds-3d-environments-in-a-snap/

2024-09-06 13:00:15

The Download: mining metals with plants, and our dystopian future
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How plants could mine metals from the soil Nickel may not grow on trees—but there’s a chance it could someday be mined using plants. Many plants naturally soak up metal and concentrate it…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/06/1103698/the-download-mining-metals-with-plants-and-our-dystopian-future/

2024-09-06 09:15:08

How plants could mine metals from the soil
Nickel may not grow on trees—but there’s a chance it could someday be mined using plants. Many plant species naturally soak up metal and concentrate it in their tissues, and new funding will support research on how to use that trait for plant-based mining, or phytomining. Seven phytomining projects just received $9.9 million in funding…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/06/1103689/plants-mining-phytomining/

2024-09-05 13:30:11

Integrating security from code to cloud
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The Human Genome Project, SpaceX’s rocket technology, and Tesla’s Autopilot system may seem worlds apart in form and function, but they all share a common characteristic: the use of open-source software (OSS) to drive innovation. Offering publicly accessible code that can be viewed, modified, and distributed freely, OSS expedites developer productivity and creates a collaborative…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/05/1097020/integrating-security-from-code-to-cloud/

2024-09-03 15:45:09

Coming soon: Our 2024 list of Innovators Under 35
To tackle complex global problems such as preventing disease and mitigating climate change, we’re going to need new ideas from our brightest minds. Every year, MIT Technology Review identifies a new class of Innovators Under 35 taking on these and other challenges. On September 10, we will honor the 2024 class of Innovators Under 35.…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/03/1103450/coming-soon-2024-innovators-under-35/

2024-09-03 12:45:08

The Download: election tech fears, and AI for teachers
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI’s impact on elections is being overblown —Felix M. Simon is a research fellow in AI and News at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism; Keegan McBride is an assistant professor…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/03/1103506/the-download-election-tech-fears-and-ai-for-teachers/

2024-09-02 12:30:11

The Download: how to prove you’re human, and replacing the grid’s gas
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How “personhood credentials” could help prove you’re a human online As AI models become better at mimicking human behavior, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between real human internet users and sophisticated systems…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/02/1103477/the-download-how-to-prove-youre-human-and-replacing-the-grids-gas/

2024-09-02 10:30:11

How “personhood credentials” could help prove you’re a human online
As AI models become better at mimicking human behavior, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between real human internet users and sophisticated systems imitating them. That’s a real problem when those systems are deployed for nefarious ends like spreading misinformation or conducting fraud, and it makes it a lot harder to trust what you encounter…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/02/1103466/how-personhood-credentials-could-help-prove-youre-a-human-online/

2024-09-02 09:30:11

The race to replace the powerful greenhouse gas that underpins the power grid
The power grid is underpinned by a single gas that is used to insulate a range of high-voltage equipment. The problem is, it’s also a super powerful greenhouse gas, a nightmare for climate change. Sulfur hexafluoride (or SF6) is far from the most common gas that warms the planet, contributing around 1% of warming to…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/02/1103398/greenhouse-gas-grid-sf6/

2024-08-30 10:45:10

A new way to build neural networks could make AI more understandable
A tweak to the way artificial neurons work in neural networks could make AIs easier to decipher. Artificial neurons—the fundamental building blocks of deep neural networks—have survived almost unchanged for decades. While these networks give modern artificial intelligence its power, they are also inscrutable. Existing artificial neurons, used in large language models like GPT4, work…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/30/1103385/a-new-way-to-build-neural-networks-could-make-ai-more-understandable/

2024-08-29 16:15:11

A prosthetic leg that feels like a real body part
When someone loses part of a leg, a prosthetic can make it easier to get around. But most prosthetics are static, cumbersome, and hard to move. Now a new neural interface developed by MIT researchers and colleagues connects a bionic lower limb to nerve endings in the thigh, allowing it to be controlled by the…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/29/1095984/a-prosthetic-leg-that-feels-like-a-real-body-part/

2024-08-28 15:30:13

Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced more emissions than fossil fuels in most countries
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Last year’s Canadian wildfires smashed records, burning about seven times more land in Canada’s forests than the annual average over the previous four decades. Eight firefighters were killed and 180,000 people displaced. …
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/28/1103186/canada-wildfire-emissions/

2024-08-28 09:30:14

AI’s growth needs the right interface
If you took a walk in Hayes Valley, San Francisco’s epicenter of AI froth, and asked the first dude-bro you saw wearing a puffer vest about the future of the interface, he’d probably say something about the movie Her, about chatty virtual assistants that will help you do everything from organize your email to book…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/28/1096515/ai-interfaces-ux-growth/

2024-08-27 11:15:12

Ray Kurzweil: Technology will let us fully realize our humanity
By the end of this decade, AI will likely surpass humans at all cognitive tasks, igniting the scientific revolution that futurists have long imagined. Digital scientists will have perfect memory of every research paper ever published and think a million times faster than we can. Our plodding progress in fields like robotics, nanotechnology, and genomics…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/27/1096148/ray-kurzweil-futurist-ai-medicine-advances-freedom/

2024-08-27 10:15:12

What will AI mean for economic inequality?
Prominent AI researchers expect the arrival of artificial general intelligence anywhere between “the next couple of years” and “possibly never.” At the same time, leading economists disagree about the potential impact of AI: Some anticipate a future of perpetually accelerating productivity, while others project more modest gains. But most experts agree that technological advancement, however…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/27/1096133/ai-economic-inequality-jobs-low-income/

2024-08-23 12:30:15

The Download: simulating solar geoengineering, and AI-enabled accessibility
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Andrew Ng’s new model lets you play around with solar geoengineering to see what would happen AI pioneer Andrew Ng has released a simple online tool that allows anyone to tinker with the…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/23/1102877/download-simulating-geoengineering-ai-accessibility/

2024-08-23 11:30:14

AI could be a game changer for people with disabilities
As a lifelong disabled person who constantly copes with multiple conditions, I have a natural tendency to view emerging technologies with skepticism. Most new things are built for the majority of people—in this case, people without disabilities—and the truth of the matter is there’s no guarantee I’ll have access to them. There are certainly exceptions…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/23/1096607/ai-people-with-disabilities-accessibility/

2024-08-22 13:15:11

We finally have a definition for open-source AI
Open-source AI is everywhere right now. The problem is, no one agrees on what it actually is. Now, we may finally have an answer. The Open Source Initiative (OSI), the self-appointed arbiters of what it means to be open source, has released a new definition, which it hopes will help lawmakers develop regulations to protect…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/22/1097224/we-finally-have-a-definition-for-open-source-ai/

2024-08-21 18:00:18

How we could turn plastic waste into food
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In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the copious amount of plastic waste generated when troops are sent to work in remote locations or disaster zones. The agency wanted a system that could convert food wrappers and water bottles, among…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/21/1097129/how-plastic-waste-into-food/

2024-08-20 11:15:12

Fighting for a future beyond the climate crisis
When it comes to climate breakdown and the extinction crisis, the question I get most often is: How can we have hope? People ask me this in a range of contexts—in Q&A sessions, in emails, and on podcasts and radio shows, whether I’m doing outreach for my novels, like A Children’s Bible or Dinosaurs, or…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/20/1096053/climate-change-future-for-future/

2024-08-16 09:30:13

What’s next for drones
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Drones have been a mainstay technology among militaries, hobbyists, and first responders alike for more than a decade, and in that time the range available has skyrocketed.…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/16/1096517/whats-next-for-drones/

2024-08-16 08:30:14

This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little
A US agency pursuing moonshot health breakthroughs has hired a researcher advocating an extremely radical plan for defeating death. His idea? Replace your body parts. All of them. Even your brain. Jean Hébert, a new hire with the US Advanced Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), is expected to lead a major new initiative around “functional…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/16/1096808/arpa-h-jean-hebert-wants-to-replace-your-brain/

2024-08-15 12:45:12

The Download: facial recognition for migrant children, and Japan’s megaquake
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. DHS plans to collect biometric data from migrant children “down to the infant” The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to collect and analyze photos of the faces of migrant children at…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/15/1096681/the-download-facial-recognition-for-migrant-children-and-japans-megaquake/

2024-08-15 12:15:11

What Japan’s “megaquake” warning really tells us
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. On August 8, at 16:42 local time, a magnitude-7.1 earthquake shook southern Japan. The temblor, originating off the shores of mainland island of Kyūshū, was felt…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/15/1096682/what-japans-megaquake-warning-really-tells-us/

2024-08-15 09:15:12

Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today
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Happy birthday, baby. You have been born into an era of intelligent machines. They have watched over you almost since your conception. They let your parents listen in on your tiny heartbeat, track your gestation on an app, and post your sonogram on social media. Well before you were born, you were known to the…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/15/1096178/125-years-predictions-babies-digital-agents/

2024-08-14 20:15:11

DHS plans to collect biometric data from migrant children “down to the infant”
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to collect and analyze photos of the faces of migrant children at the border in a bid to improve facial recognition technology, MIT Technology Review can reveal. This includes children “down to the infant,” according to John Boyd, assistant director of the department’s Office of Biometric Identity…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/14/1096534/homeland-security-facial-recognition-immigration-border/

2024-08-14 12:45:12

The Download: a new AI risk database, and studying Jupiter’s mysterious moon
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new public database lists all the ways AI could go wrong What’s new: Adopting AI can be fraught with danger. Systems could be biased, or parrot falsehoods, or even become addictive. And…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/14/1096566/the-download-a-new-ai-risk-database-and-studying-jupiters-mysterious-moon/

2024-08-13 10:30:14

How the auto industry could steer the world toward green steel
Steel scaffolds our world, undergirding buildings and machines. It also presents a major challenge for climate change, since steel production largely relies on polluting fossil fuels. The automotive industry could be a key player in turning things around. Steel production is currently responsible for about 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. There’s a growing array…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/13/1096387/auto-industry-green-steel/

2024-08-12 09:15:12

Here’s how people are actually using AI
This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first, sign up here. When the generative AI boom started with ChatGPT in late 2022, we were sold a vision of superintelligent AI tools that know everything, can replace the boring bits of work, and supercharge productivity and…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/12/1096202/how-people-actually-using-ai/

2024-08-09 09:45:12

Google DeepMind trained a robot to beat humans at table tennis
Do you fancy your chances of beating a robot at a game of table tennis? Google DeepMind has trained a robot to play the game at the equivalent of amateur-level competitive performance, the company has announced. It claims it’s the first time a robot has been taught to play a sport with humans at a…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/09/1096102/google-deepmind-trained-a-robot-to-beat-humans-at-table-tennis/

2024-08-08 12:30:14

The Download: AC habits, and Starliner’s stranded astronauts
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Your AC habits aren’t unique. Here’s why that’s a problem. —Casey Crownhart When I get home in the evening on a sweltering summer day, the first thing I do is crank up my…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/08/1095938/the-download-ac-habits-and-starliners-stranded-astronauts/

2024-08-08 10:30:14

Your AC habits aren’t unique. Here’s why that’s a problem.
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. When I get home in the evening on a sweltering summer day, the first thing I do is beeline to my window air-conditioning units and crank them up. People across the city,…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/08/1095928/air-conditioning-peak-demand/

2024-08-07 12:45:11

The Download: AIDS denialism, and AI safety mechanisms
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How covid conspiracies led to an alarming resurgence in AIDS denialism Several million people were listening in February when Joe Rogan falsely declared that “party drugs” were an “important factor in AIDS.” His…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/07/1095906/the-download-aids-denialism-and-ai-safety-mechanisms/

2024-08-07 10:15:11

What to know about China’s push for hydrogen-powered transportation
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. There’s a decent chance you’ve heard of hydrogen-powered vehicles but never seen one. Over 18,000 are in the US, almost exclusively in California. On the outside they look just like traditional vehicles,…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/07/1095849/china-hydrogen-truck-bike-coal/

2024-08-05 09:30:15

We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’
AI concerns overemphasize harms arising from subversion rather than seduction. Worries about AI often imagine doomsday scenarios where systems escape human control or even understanding. Short of those nightmares, there are nearer-term harms we should take seriously: that AI could jeopardize public discourse through misinformation; cement biases in loan decisions, judging or hiring; or disrupt…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/05/1095600/we-need-to-prepare-for-addictive-intelligence/

2024-08-02 09:30:13

A personalized AI tool might help some reach end-of-life decisions—but it won’t suit everyone
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. This week, I’ve been working on a piece about an AI-based tool that could help guide end-of-life care. We’re talking about the kinds of life-and-death decisions that come…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/02/1095573/ai-end-of-life-decisions-wont-suit-everyone/

2024-08-02 09:15:11

2024-07-31 10:15:11

A controversial Chinese CRISPR scientist is still hopeful about embryo gene-editing. Here’s why.
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Back in 2018, it was my colleague Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine, who broke the story that a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui had used CRISPR to edit the genes of…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/31/1095509/he-jiankui-hopeful-gene-editing/

2024-07-31 09:45:11

The US physics community is not done working on trust
In April 2024, Nature released detailed information about investigations into claims made by Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, in two high-profile papers the journal had published about the discovery of room-temperature superconductivity. Those two papers, which showed evidence of fabricated data, were eventually retracted, along with other papers from the Dias…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/31/1095425/the-us-physics-community-is-not-done-working-on-trust/

2024-07-29 12:30:14

The Download: the future of CRISPR babies, and investing in climate tech
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Controversial CRISPR scientist promises “no more gene-edited babies” until society comes around He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned to…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/29/1095433/the-download-the-future-of-crispr-babies-and-investing-in-climate-tech/

2024-07-29 09:30:14

From Meta CTO to climate tech investor: Mike Schroepfer on his big pivot
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As the pandemic locked down cities in early 2020, Mike Schroepfer, then the chief technology officer of Meta, found himself with more free time than he’d ever had in his career. In quiet moments that would have been filled with work travel, social events, or his children’s school activities, he reflected on how well humanity…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/29/1095357/from-meta-cto-to-climate-tech-investor-mike-schroepfer-on-his-big-pivot/

2024-07-26 19:00:16

Controversial CRISPR scientist promises “no more gene-edited babies” until society comes around
He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned to work on the concept of altering the DNA of people at conception, but with a difference. This time around, he says, he will restrict his research to animals and nonviable human embryos. He will…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/26/1095398/controversial-crispr-scientist-promises-no-more-gene-edited-babies-until-society-comes-around/

2024-07-26 09:30:14

How our genome is like a generative AI model
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. What does the genome do? You might have heard that it is a blueprint for an organism. Or that it’s a bit like a recipe. But building an…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/26/1095332/genome-is-like-generative-ai/

2024-07-25 17:45:11

Roundtables: CRISPR Babies—Six years later
Recorded on July 25, 2024 CRISPR Babies: Six years later Speakers: He Jiankui, CRISPR Pioneer, Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine, and Mat Honan, editor in chief Gene editing can correct or improve the DNA of human embryos, essentially opening the door to “technological evolution” of our species. But in 2018, a premature attempt to…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/25/1095301/roundtables-crispr-babies-six-years-later/

2024-07-25 17:15:10

A new tool for copyright holders can show if their work is in AI training data
Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, content creators have argued that their work has been scraped into AI models without their consent. But until now, it has been difficult to know whether specific text has actually been used in a training data set. Now they have a new way to prove it: “copyright…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/25/1095347/a-new-tool-for-copyright-holders-can-show-if-their-work-is-in-ai-training-data/

2024-07-24 15:15:11

AI that feeds on a diet of AI garbage ends up spitting out nonsense
AI models work by training on huge swaths of data from the internet. But as AI is increasingly being used to pump out web pages filled with junk content, that process is in danger of being undermined. New research published in Nature shows that the quality of the model’s output gradually degrades when AI trains…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/24/1095263/ai-that-feeds-on-a-diet-of-ai-garbage-ends-up-spitting-out-nonsense/

2024-07-24 12:45:12

The Download: Chinese LLMs, and transforming heavy-duty trucking
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to access Chinese LLM chatbots across the world Hundreds of Chinese large language models have been released since the government started permitting AI companies to open up their models for the general…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/24/1095248/the-download-chinese-llms-and-transforming-heavy-duty-trucking/

2024-07-24 10:30:14

How battery-powered trailers could transform trucking
Semi-trucks move over 11 billion tons of freight in the US each year, spewing greenhouse-gas emissions and other pollutants along the highways as they go. Shifting these and other heavy-duty trucks to zero-emissions technologies will be a challenge—even more so than for smaller vehicles, since larger vehicles require bigger batteries and more powerful chargers. One…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/24/1095233/battery-trailers-trucking/

2024-07-23 09:30:13

How’s AI self-regulation going?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Yesterday, on July 21, President Joe Biden announced he is stepping down from the race against Donald Trump in the US presidential election. But AI nerds may remember that exactly a…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/23/1095218/hows-ai-self-regulation-going/

2024-07-19 14:45:08

How to fix a Windows PC affected by the global outage
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. Windows PCs have crashed in a major IT outage around the world, bringing airlines, major banks, TV broadcasters, health-care providers, and other businesses to a standstill. Airlines including United,…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/19/1095161/fix-windows-pc-microsoft-crowdstrike-outage/

2024-07-19 12:45:07

The Download: Windows’ CrowdStrike outage, and wildfire-tracking balloons
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A widespread Windows outage is affecting airlines, banks, and TV broadcasters What’s happening? Windows PCs have crashed around the world, bringing airlines, major banks, TV broadcasters, healthcare providers and other businesses to a…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/19/1095149/the-download-windows-crowdstrike-outage-and-wildfire-tracking-balloons/

2024-07-18 14:30:10

Building supply chain resilience with AI
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If the last five years have taught businesses with complex supply chains anything, it is that resilience is crucial. In the first three months of the covid-19 pandemic, for example, supply-chain leader Amazon grew its business 44%. Its investments in supply chain resilience allowed it to deliver when its competitors could not, says Sanjeev Maddila,…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/18/1094899/building-supply-chain-resilience-with-ai/

2024-07-18 13:15:07

The Download: Falcon 9’s future, and Big Tech’s climate goals
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is one of the world’s safest, most productive rockets. But a rare engine malfunction on July 11 prompted the US Federal Aviation Administration to…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/18/1095115/the-download-falcon-9s-future-and-big-techs-climate-goals/

2024-07-17 13:15:10

Transforming the energy industry through disruptive innovation
In the rhythm of our fast-paced lives, most of us don’t stop to think about where electricity comes from or or how it powers homes, industries, and the technologies that connect people around the world. As populations and economies grow, energy demands are set to increase by 50% by 2050–challenging century-old energy systems to adapt…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/17/1095012/transforming-the-energy-industry-through-disruptive-innovation/

2024-07-17 12:45:07

The Download: Big Tech’s climate claims, and reducing your music streaming carbon footprint
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google, Amazon and the problem with Big Tech’s climate claims Last week, Amazon trumpeted that it had purchased enough clean electricity to cover the energy demands of all its global operations, seven years…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/17/1095061/the-download-big-techs-climate-claims-and-reducing-your-music-streaming-carbon-footprint/

2024-07-17 09:15:09

Google, Amazon and the problem with Big Tech’s climate claims
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Last week, Amazon trumpeted that it had purchased enough clean electricity to cover the energy demands of all the offices, data centers, grocery stores, and warehouses across its…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/17/1095019/google-amazon-and-the-problem-with-big-techs-climate-claims/

2024-07-16 12:45:08

The Download: K-pop stans’ climate plans, and what AI isn’t
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Music streaming can be a drag on the environment. These K-pop fans want to clean it up. K-pop fans have for years been known for their incredible organizing power. As their numbers have…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/16/1095006/the-download-k-pop-stans-climate-plans-and-what-ai-isnt/

2024-07-16 09:30:10

Music streaming can be a drag on the environment. These K-pop fans want to clean it up.
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On Valentine’s Day 2023, five K-pop fans came to a bustling street in the center of Seoul, one of them in a bee costume. Then they started dancing to “Candy” by the boy band NCT Dream and unfurled a banner with a message for Korea’s largest domestic music streaming platform: “Melon, let’s use 100% renewable…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/16/1094982/music-streaming-climate-kpop-fan/

2024-07-15 12:30:10

The Download: how AI affects creativity, and CRISPR babies
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI can make you more creative—but it has limits Generative AI models have made it simpler and quicker to produce everything from text passages and images to video clips and audio tracks. But…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/15/1094942/the-download-how-ai-affects-creativity-and-crispr-babies/

2024-07-12 20:00:12

Unlocking secure, private AI with confidential computing
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All of a sudden, it seems that AI is everywhere, from executive assistant chatbots to AI code assistants. But despite the proliferation of AI in the zeitgeist, many organizations are proceeding with caution. This is due to the perception of the security quagmires AI presents. For the emerging technology to reach its full potential, data…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/12/1094838/unlocking-secure-private-ai-with-confidential-computing/

2024-07-12 18:15:08

AI can make you more creative—but it has limits
Generative AI models have made it simpler and quicker to produce everything from text passages and images to video clips and audio tracks. Texts and media that might have taken years for humans to create can now be generated in seconds. But while AI’s output can certainly seem creative, do these models actually boost human…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/12/1094892/ai-can-make-you-more-creative-but-it-has-limits/

2024-07-12 12:30:11

The Download: robot-packed meals, and the looming fertility crisis
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Robot-packed meals are coming to the frozen-food aisle What’s happening: Advances in artificial intelligence are coming to your freezer, in the form of robot-assembled prepared meals. Chef Robotics, a San Francisco-based startup, has…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/12/1094889/the-download-robot-packed-meals-and-the-looming-fertility-crisis/

2024-07-11 13:45:08

The Download: automating warehouse tasks, and problems with recycling plastics
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI is poised to automate today’s most mundane manual warehouse task Before almost any item reaches your door, it traverses the global supply chain on a pallet. More than 2 billion pallets are…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/11/1094856/the-download-automating-warehouse-tasks-and-problems-with-recycling-plastics/

2024-07-11 13:15:07

AI is poised to automate today’s most mundane manual warehouse task
Before almost any item reaches your door, it traverses the global supply chain on a pallet. More than 2 billion pallets are in circulation in the United States alone, and $400 billion worth of goods are exported on them annually. However, loading boxes onto these pallets is a task stuck in the past: Heavy loads…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/11/1094829/ai-is-poised-to-automate-todays-most-mundane-manual-warehouse-task/

2024-07-11 10:15:08

Here’s the problem with new plastic recycling methods
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Look on the bottom of a plastic water bottle or takeout container, and you might find a logo there made up of three arrows forming a closed loop shaped like a triangle.…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/11/1094844/plastic-reycling-problem/

2024-07-10 11:00:15

Housetraining robot dogs: How generative AI might change consumer IoT
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As technology goes, the internet of things (IoT) is old: internet-connected devices outnumbered people on Earth around 2008 or 2009, according to a contemporary Cisco report. Since then, IoT has grown rapidly. Researchers say that by the early 2020s, estimates of the number of devices ranged anywhere from the low tens of billions to over…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/10/1094477/housetraining-robot-dogs-how-generative-ai-might-change-consumer-iot/

2024-07-10 09:45:08

The Chinese government is going all-in on autonomous vehicles
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. There’s been so much news coming out of China’s autonomous-vehicle industry lately that it’s hard to keep track. The government is finally allowing Tesla to bring its Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature to…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/10/1094811/chinese-government-policy-autonomous-vehicles/

2024-07-09 12:30:10

The Download: planning a honeymoon with AI, and deepfakes in 2024
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Can AI help me plan my honeymoon? —Melissa Heikkilä I’m getting married later this summer and am feverishly planning a honeymoon together with my fiancé. It has been at times overwhelming trying to…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/09/1094779/the-download-planning-a-honeymoon-with-ai-and-deepfakes-in-2024/

2024-07-08 12:45:07

The Download: vacation planning with AI, and smaller models
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to use AI to plan your next vacation Planning a vacation should, in theory, be fun. But it can also be time-consuming and stressful, particularly if you don’t know where to begin.…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/08/1094742/the-download-vacation-planning-with-ai-and-smaller-models/

2024-07-08 10:15:08

How to use AI to plan your next vacation
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Planning a vacation should, in theory, be fun. But drawing up a list of activities for a trip can also be time-consuming and stressful, particularly if you don’t know where to begin. Luckily tech companies have been competing to create tools that can help…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/08/1094733/how-to-use-ai-to-plan-your-next-vacation/

2024-07-05 11:00:16

What are AI agents?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When ChatGPT was first released, everyone in AI was talking about the new generation of AI assistants. But over the past year, that excitement has turned…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/05/1094711/what-are-ai-agents/

2024-07-05 09:30:13

AI lie detectors are better than humans at spotting lies
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Can you spot a liar? It’s a question I imagine has been on a lot of minds lately, in the wake of various televised political debates. Research has…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/05/1094703/ai-lie-detectors-are-better-than-humans-at-spotting-lies/

2024-07-03 18:15:11

A polyester-dissolving process could make modern clothing recyclable
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Less than 1% of clothing is recycled, and most of the rest ends up dumped in a landfill or burned. A team of researchers hopes to change that with a new process that breaks down mixed-fiber clothing into reusable, recyclable parts without any sorting or separation in advance. “We need a better way to recycle…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/03/1094668/polyester-clothing-recycling/

2024-07-03 12:45:10

The Download: listening robots, and Google’s AI emissions
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A way to let robots learn by listening will make them more useful Most AI-powered robots today use cameras to understand their surroundings and learn new tasks, but it’s becoming easier to train…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/03/1094649/the-download-listening-robots-and-googles-ai-emissions/

2024-07-03 10:00:16

A way to let robots learn by listening will make them more useful
Most AI-powered robots today use cameras to understand their surroundings and learn new tasks, but it’s becoming easier to train robots with sound too, helping them adapt to tasks and environments where visibility is limited. Though sight is important, for some of our daily tasks, sound is actually more helpful, like listening to onions sizzling…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/03/1094644/robots-learn-by-listening/