The race to destroy PFAS, the forever chemicals
The quest to reduce the amount of PFAS in the environment is what led me to an industrial park in...
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GE Reports Stellar Earnings Ahead Of Breaking Into Two Companies
(Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey takeaways General Electric reported better-than-expected earnings and sales, raising its full-year guidance The company...
Three people were gene-edited in an effort to cure their HIV. The result is unknown.
Vaccine makers have also struggled because HIV kills the very immune cells meant to stop infection. But a decade ago,...
The Download: introducing the Hard Problems issue
For all of history we’ve turned to technology, again and again, to help us solve our hardest problems. It has...
The quest to re-create nature’s strongest material
The extraordinary mechanical properties of limpet teeth come from their composite structure: a flexible scaffold made of chitin (a common...
The grassroots push to digitize India’s most precious documents
Moreover, most public libraries aren’t freely accessible to the public. “Getting access to many of our public libraries is so...
Job titles of the future: carbon accountant
COURTESY PHOTO A growing field A relatively new occupation, carbon accounting involves collecting a wide variety of data from an...
Tuning in
In the first episode, released last spring, I interviewed Desirée Plata, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering. We talked...
Barbie meets Dr. Who
On the first day of fall class registration, a Barbie-themed TARDIS, the time-traveling spaceship from Doctor Who, appeared in the...
Superhero U
The brass rat Stark wears in the 2008 movie Iron Man is no coincidence. Readers of the 1996 comic Iron...
Tapping into the ocean to combat climate change
Dean hopes to be involved in answering that question soon. At press time, WHOI was seeking EPA approval to undertake...
Shuffling the deck
Praneeth Namburi, PhD ’16 From neuroscience to biophysics of movement Twelve years ago, Praneeth Namburi made a detour in what...
Chevron Acquisition: Oil Giant Buys Hess For $53bn In All-Stock Deal
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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
COURTESY OF THE RESEARCHERS Zhao admits there is a risk that people might abuse the data poisoning technique for malicious...
Big Bank Layoffs Number Thousands – With More On The Way
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Seeking a successful path to core modernization
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
The power of green computing
There's other use cases where when running inference on a CPU, there are accelerators inside that help to accelerate AI...
The Download: teaching girls to build, and fixing government tech
Emily Pilloton-Lam didn’t grow up in a particularly handy household, but she did spend hours outside building treehouses out of...
How to make government technology better
It’s been able to do this, at least in part, because the city follows an organizational approach similar to one...
Ketamine is easier to prescribe than ever, and the FDA is not happy about it
So is at-home ketamine safe? William Dudney, a psychiatrist in Tampa, Florida, has been offering patients ketamine for five years...