Three technology trends shaping 2024’s elections
But researchers I’ve spoken with over the past few months say the 2024 US presidential election will be the first...
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Scientists are finding signals of long covid in blood. They could lead to new treatments.
The scientists found that people with long covid exhibit changes in a suite of proteins involved in the complement system,...
The Download: gene-edited pig liver transplants, and AI to fight apartheid
Just a few miles away in Limpopo, white families lived in big, attractive houses, with easy access to all these...
Donated bodies are powering gene-edited organ research
This time the experiment lasted only 72 hours, as that’s about how long a pig liver would be needed to...
How satellite images and AI could help fight spatial apartheid in South Africa
The older Sefala became, the more she peppered her father with questions about the visible racial segregation of their neighborhood:...
A brain-dead man was attached to a gene-edited pig liver for three days
“There is always curiosity. Everyone takes a meeting,” says Curtis. “They do view it as the future, but is it...
The Download: exascale computing, and AI takes on geometry
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Garbled AI-generated text is taking over...
The next generation of nuclear reactors is getting more advanced. Here’s how.
Many of these so-called advanced technologies were invented and even demonstrated over 50 years ago, before the industry converged on...
How hot salt could transform nuclear power
Kairos is making progress on construction, too. The company received approval in December from the NRC to build Hermes-1, its...
Start with data to build a better supply chain
Laurel: On that topic of workplace agility. In 2020, bp began a reorganization that consolidated its procurement departments into that...
A new AI-based risk prediction system could help catch deadly pancreatic cancer cases earlier
“It would be anticipated that such a model would improve the current landscape,” he says. “But it really needs to...
Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems
To train AlphaGeometry's language model, the researchers had to create their own training data to compensate for the scarcity of...
The Download: Twitter killers, and how China regulates AI
For the better part of 17 years, the roiling, rolling, fractious, sometimes funny, sometimes horrifying, never-ever-ending global conversation had a...
The Download: Apple Vision Pro, and how AI judges gymnastics
Every year for the past 20+ years, MIT Technology Review has selected a list of the breakthrough technologies that will...
How AI is changing gymnastics judging
Kaia Tanskanen in her blue leotard competes on uneven bars during the women's qualifications of the 2023 World Championships in...
Why everyone’s excited about household robots again
I have a chair of shame at home. By that I mean a chair in my bedroom onto which I...
Outperforming competitors as a data-driven organization
“Companies need to have the necessary data foundations, data ecosystems, and data culture to embrace an AI-driven operating model,” says Akhilesh...
The Download: super-efficient solar cells, and helpful robots
In November 2023, a buzzy solar technology broke yet another world record for efficiency. The previous record had existed for...
The FTC’s unprecedented move against data brokers, explained
“The FTC’s action is significant because of the prohibitions—barring the company from selling data about sensitive locations, rather than just...
Watch this robot cook shrimp and clean autonomously
The researchers taught the robot, called Mobile ALOHA (an acronym for “a low-cost open-source hardware teleoperation system for bimanual operation”),...