The Download: tracking animals, and biotech plants
Last week, MIT Technology Review hosted an event where we dug into the future of batteries and the materials that...
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Ready, set, grow: These are the biotech plants you can buy now
Biotech seeds have been a huge business for a while. In fact, by sheer mass, GMOs are probably the single...
Watch this robot as it learns to stitch up wounds
Though many doctors today get help from robots for procedures ranging from hernia repairs to coronary bypasses, those are used...
How tracking animal movement may save the planet
At the turn of the millennium, he took a position at Princeton with the notion that the institutional pedigree might...
Three frequently asked questions about EVs, answered
I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about transportation in general, since it’s one of the biggest areas we...
Warren Buffett Is Betting Big On Japan, Increases Stakes In Five Trading Firms
(Photo by Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage)WireImageKey takeaways Legendary investor Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway has increased its stake in five Japanese trading...
Data at the center of business
Mark: That's a great question. And first, I would say across JPMorgan Chase, we do view this as an investment....
The Download: deep diving, and virtual power plants in China
In China, which is adopting electric vehicles faster than any other country, VPPs could be transformational. The country has just...
Why China’s EV ambitions need virtual power plants
If you, like me, are unsure how a power plant can be virtual, my colleague June Kim just published an...
Meet the divers trying to figure out how deep humans can go
The others were amazed. Some were perturbed. “Everybody has to make this decision for themself,” Stone told me. “The Pearse...
Transforming document understanding and insights with generative AI
AI Assistant in Adobe Acrobat, now in beta, is a new generative AI–powered conversational engine deeply integrated into Acrobat workflows,...
The Download: hunting for new matter, and Gary Marcus’ AI critiques
Marcus does much of his tweeting on scenic walks around his hometown of Vancouver. Our senior AI reporter Melissa Heikkilä...
I went for a walk with Gary Marcus, AI’s loudest critic
Late last year he wrote a book, called Taming Silicon Valley, which is coming out this fall. It is his...
Inside the hunt for new physics at the world’s largest particle collider
Not everyone is fully on board. Some theorists worry that the approach will only yield more false alarms from the...
The Download: missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa, and Uruguay’s screwworm gene drive
They are about to move into the next stage of caged trials in the lab, with a view to eventually...
The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
“Europa is my favorite body in the solar system,” Quick confesses. But she notes that other ocean worlds also offer...
Roundtables: Building a Cleaner Future: Better Batteries and Their Materials
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
Uruguay wants to use gene drives to eradicate devastating screwworms
The situation is urgent. In July of last year, Panama declared a state of animal health emergency amid outbreaks of...
The Download: impressive new AI capabilities
OpenAI teases an amazing new generative video model called Sora OpenAI has built a striking new generative video model called...
How bacteria-fighting viruses could go mainstream
When Cole first received phage therapy, she had been dealing with a blood infection for nearly a month. Her doctors...
