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...
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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...
OpenAI teases an amazing new generative video model called Sora
It may be some time before we find out. OpenAI’s announcement of Sora today is a tech tease, and the...
Google’s new version of Gemini can handle far bigger amounts of data
“In one way it operates much like our brain does, where not the whole brain activates all the time,” says...
Responsible technology use in the AI age
Technology use often goes wrong, Parsons notes, “because we’re too focused on either our own ideas of what good looks...
The Download: why batteries rock, and Apple’s VR headset returns problem
Three things to love about batteries It’s hard to pick favorites when it comes to climate technologies. Really, anything that...
Three things to love about batteries
They’re versatile One of my favorite things about battery technology is its adaptability. Researchers are finding and developing new chemistries...
Providing the right products at the right time with machine learning
Jorge: Certainly. My role, I will call, has two major focuses in two areas. One of them is I lead...
The Download: China’s digital red packet jamboree, and a methane-leak mapping satellite
But as the need for more batteries grows, digging up the required materials becomes more challenging. The solution may lie...
A new satellite will use Google’s AI to map methane leaks from space
Once in orbit, MethaneSAT’s software and spectrometers, which measure different wavelengths of light to detect methane, will pinpoint both concentrated...
