MIT Technology Review

The history of trustbusting shows there are many possible ways to combat the monopoly power of companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google.

If you have a cell-phone camera, the NaviLens system can give you vital information about where you are.

Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint.

Internet governance expert Viktor Mayer-Schönberger says a breakup wouldn’t fix the real problem: companies like Google have too much data, and nobody else stands a chance.

Can a town like Paradise, California, ever be truly safe in the era of climate change?

With the 2020 presidential race fast approaching, America hasn’t learned the lessons of the last one.

US regulators will investigate whether companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google have too much power. Here’s an introduction to the issues.

Meet the space-weather forecaster leading the charge to help us understand solar flares and geomagnetic storms before it’s too late.

Why an issue that hardly came up in the last US election has become the price of admission in the 2020 presidential primary.

Regulators in the US have taken a big step toward bringing antitrust suits against American tech giants, but they face a long road ahead.

Delays in plugging security holes in semiconductor chips put everything from servers to phones at risk. Here are some suggestions for speeding things up

A genetic mutation that protects against HIV leads to a shorter life span, researchers find.

New guidelines on freedom and privacy protection signal that the Chinese state is open to dialogue about how it uses technology.

The programmer supposedly used face recognition to match social-media photos with images from porn sites. Collecting that data would have been illegal in some countries but not others.

The artificial-intelligence industry runs on the invisible labor of humans working in isolated and often terrible conditions—and the model is spreading to more and more businesses.

A new study shows that quantum technology will catch up with today’s encryption standards much sooner than expected. That should worry anybody who needs to store data securely for 25 years or so.

FCC chairman Ajit Pai had claimed that rosy broadband numbers showed his deregulation approach was working.

Another large-scale effort is under way to develop a doctor’s-office test to find cancer in people with no symptoms.

A new analysis of the famous game-theory puzzle finds that even when the players seem equal, one can learn to profit at the other’s expense—and the victim will cooperate.

A CubeSat launching to space this year will provide a test run for future telescopes.

The discovery may explain how these buildings have survived for so long in earthquake zones.

Taking down the ‘drunk ’ Pelosi video could set a precedent for censoring political satire or dissent.

A look at historical case studies shows us how we handle the liability of automated systems.

Can the world’s great powers agree on rules of the road for artificial intelligence?

And how it might even be a good thing.

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv.

Trade barriers and immigration controls might lead different countries to adopt incompatible products, impeding global innovation.

We are getting a clearer picture of what the social network is working on behind the scenes: Globalcoin

The idea of driving on an inverted track has attracted lots of analysis, but a previously overlooked approach could let an upside-down driver keep going safely and indefinitely.