The weeds are winning
As we drive east from the campus in Champaign-Urbana, the twin cities where I grew up, we spot a soybean...
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Preventing Climate Change: A Team Sport
Read more from MIT Technology Review Insights & MEDC about addressing climate change impacts About the speaker Hilary Doe, Chief...
Productivity Electrified: Tech That Is Supercharging Business
This sponsored session was presented by Ford Pro at MIT Technology Review's 2024 EmTech MIT event.A decarbonized transportation system is...
The Download: another Nobel Prize for AI, and Adobe’s anti-scraping tool
Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis has won a joint Nobel Prize for Chemistry for using artificial intelligence to predict the...
Google DeepMind leaders share Nobel Prize in chemistry for protein prediction AI
Hassabis and Jumper created AlphaFold, which in 2020 solved a problem scientists have been wrestling with for decades: predicting the...
Adobe wants to make it easier for artists to blacklist their work from AI scraping
Content credentials are based on C2PA, an internet protocol that uses cryptography to securely label images, video, and audio with...
The Download: Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Prize, and multimodal AI
Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and 90s underpins all of the...
Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and figurehead of doomerism, wins Nobel Prize
Hinton shares the award with fellow computer scientist John Hopfield, who invented a type of pattern-matching neural network that could...
Why artificial intelligence and clean energy need each other
AI’s power density requirements similarly necessitate a new set of electricity infrastructure enhancements—like advanced conductors for transmission lines that can...
Forget chat. AI that can hear, see, and click is already here.
Exhibit A: Google’s NotebookLM. NotebookLM is a research tool the company launched with little fanfare a year ago. A few...
The Download: how to find new music online, and climate friendly food
Since the heyday of radio, records, cassette tapes, and MP3 players, the branding of sound has evolved from broad genres...
The Download: Google’s AI podcasts, and protecting your brain data
Google’s new AI podcasting tool, called Audio Overview, has become a surprise viral hit.The podcasting feature was launched in mid-September...
A new law in California protects consumers’ brain data. Some think it doesn’t go far enough.
But some proponents of mental privacy aren’t satisfied that the law does enough to protect neural data. “While it introduces...
People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts—and they’re weird and amazing
The tool generates a podcast called Deep Dive, which features a male and a female voice discussing whatever you uploaded....
The Download: training robots with gen AI, and the state of climate tech
Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, and they’ve recently been used for everything from...
These 15 companies are innovating in climate tech
Our goal is to spotlight businesses we believe could help make a dent in climate change. This year’s list includes...
AI-generated images can teach robots how to act
The system could make it easier to train different types of robots to complete tasks—machines ranging from mechanical arms to...
The Download: 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
1 The death toll from Hurricane Helene is risingRescue and recovery teams are searching for hundreds of missing people. (WP...
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is set to look for life-friendly conditions around Jupiter
Europa Clipper isn’t on the hunt for extraterrestrial life, however. Instead, its team hopes to assess the moon’s habitability—how well...
2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Ceibo and its copper mining tech
The remaining 80% of the world’s copper comes from copper sulfide ores, which don’t dissolve well in acid. To extract...
