Emissions hit a record high in 2023. Blame hydropower.
But last year, weather conditions caused hydropower to fall short in a major way, with generation dropping by a record...
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The Download: AI comics, and US tensions with China over EVs
—Will Douglas Heaven Thirteen years ago, as an assignment for a journalism class, I wrote a stupid short story about...
Chinese EVs have entered center stage in US-China tensions
Last Thursday, the Biden administration announced it would investigate the security risks posed by Chinese-made smart cars, which could “collect...
I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too
The narrator sits on the floor and eats breakfast with the cats. LORE MACHINE / WILL DOUGLAS HEAVEN After more than...
The Download: rise of the robots, and what organoids can teach us
—This is an excerpt from a new book, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, by MIT...
Nobody knows how AI works
Recently we’ve seen some AI failures on a far bigger scale. In the latest (hilarious) gaffe, Google’s Gemini refused to...
The robots are coming. And that’s a good thing.
What if we could throw our sight, hearing, touch, and even sense of smell to distant locales and experience these...
Roundtables: The AI Economy
The AI EconomySpeakers: Mat Honan, Editor in chief and David Rotman, Editor at large There’s no doubt that generative AI...
Roundtables: How should we regulate AI?
How should we regulate AI?Speakers: Melissa Heikkilä, Senior reporter for AI and Charlotte Jee, News editor There’s little doubt that...
Roundtables: How does AI work?
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
Roundtables: Future of Families: How reproductive technology can reverse population decline
Future of Families: How reproductive technology can reverse population declineSpeakers: Antonio Regalado, Sr Editor of biomedicine and special guest Martín...
Organoids made from amniotic fluid will tell us how fetuses develop
“The entire concept is really groundbreaking,” says Oren Pleniceanu, a stem cell biologist and head of the Kidney Research Center...
The tech that helps these herders navigate drought, war, and extremists
Orenstein and the Garbal team—roughly a dozen local data analysts, project managers, digital finance experts, and tele-agents with degrees in...
The Download: tech help for herders, and bacteria clean-ups
1 AI is unleashing a data center goldrushIt could rise from 2% of the global data center footprint to 10%...
How some bacteria are cleaning up our messy water supply
It’s not just medicines. A dizzying number of personal care products also end up in the sewers—coconut shampoos and hydrating...
The Download: quantum squeezing, and a game-building AI model
How scientists are using quantum squeezing to push the limits of their sensors When two black holes spiral inward and...
Google DeepMind’s new generative model makes Super Mario–like games from scratch
“It’s cool work,” says Matthew Guzdial, an AI researcher at the University of Alberta, who developed a similar game generator...
Why concerns over the sustainability of carbon removal are growing
In background conversations, several industry insiders I’ve spoken with acknowledge that the number of carbon removal companies is simply unsustainable,...
Generative AI: Differentiating disruptors from the disrupted
The overarching message from this research is that plans among corporate leaders to disrupt competition using the new technology—rather than...
How scientists are using quantum squeezing to push the limits of their sensors
LIGO has confirmed 90 gravitational wave detections so far, but physicists want to detect more, which will require making the...
