MIT Technology Review

Websites delivered iOS malware to thousands of visitors in the biggest iPhone hack ever. There’s no telling who was infected—or who was behind it.

Bid for barnyard revolution is set back after regulators find celebrity “hornless” bovines contaminated by bacterial genes.

The popular video game provides the best environment for an AI to learn a wide range of tasks, the company’s researchers say.

The AI lab has also released a report to explain why it is releasing the model in increments.

A hacking group with links to Iran is the latest threat that makes the Persian Gulf one of the world’s most active theaters of cyberwar.

The odds that NASA can accomplish its huge task in five years are looking longer and longer with each passing week.

Machine learning can help manage a wide range of mental health disorders. But the psychiatric profession is worryingly unprepared for this change, according to a global survey.

Scientists aren’t sure if there’s a tipping point, or how close we are to it – but it would be “absolutely catastrophic” if we cross it.

Attorney Carrie Goldberg is on a mission to eradicate the law that gave rise to the modern internet—and which enables stalking, revenge porn, and more.

A new study highlighting the risks of perverse incentives offers the latest evidence that carbon offsets are a deeply flawed way of combating climate change.

The art of creating giant bubbles is more mysterious than it seems, but researchers are at last teasing apart the chemistry of thin soapy films.

A radar device that relies on entangled photons works at such low power that it can hide behind background noise, making it useful for biomedical and security applications.

Growing competition to develop self-driving cars—and the high stakes of getting things right—have created new crowdworking platforms that could be a lifeline for desperate workers.

A popular cryptocurrency service that may appear to enhance anonymity actually doesn’t, according to new research.

A family of street performers could walk on coals. Here’s how the secret of why they felt no pain could benefit others.

Policing online hate groups is like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole, and it’s not working. Here are some ideas that might.

Products designed for older people reinforce a bogus image of them as passive and feeble.

We will soon learn if a much-hyped, rapamycin-like drug can boost the immune response by targeting how the body ages.

A futuristic fiction story about starting over at 100 years old

Many worry that aging populations will doom the world economy and make life miserable for everyone. Here’s why that’s wrong.

As the market for products aimed at older users explodes, some entrepreneurs are turning to a radical idea: actually get the customers involved.

The per-person allocation for those over 65 is actually shrinking

An introduction to our special issue on longevity

Twitter and Facebook have hosted ads from US-backed outlets, sometimes even illegally.

A diet based on caloric restriction might make you live longer. It’ll certainly feel like longer.

Analyzing the difference in results between two ways of determining protein structure offers help with one of the great challenges for molecular biologists.

Syzygy Plasmonics has raised nearly $6 million to produce a cleaner form of hydrogen, using a novel type of photocatalyst.

The latest genre of nuisance email tries to blackmail victims with threats to send embarrassing images or information to their contacts. A new analysis reveals just how much money this type of scam can generate.