MIT Technology Review

Google’s artificial-intelligence researchers have created a football simulator for training the next generation of machine-learning algorithms.

Chip maker Nvidia is betting that AI’s language skills will advance rapidly—it’s releasing a powerful tool for putting together chatty programs.

This provision of the Communications Decency Act is being blamed for everything from social-media bias to enabling revenge porn. Here’s how to understand the law that created the modern internet.

The “terrascope” could outperform the light-gathering power of any feasible ground-based telescope.

Inside Senior Planet, the tech-savviest retirement community on earth.

A California “human biohacking” bill calls for warnings on do-it-yourself genetic-engineering kits.

The monstrous object should be big enough for ground-based radio telescopes to image.

Univfy uses machine learning to give women personalized predictions—and a sense of hope—for their chances of having a baby.

As the threats of climate change grow, we’re all likely to hear more and more about the possibilities, and dangers, of geoengineering. Here’s what it means.

The bad news: to make really deep emissions cuts, most of us should probably go vegan.

Details of a recent attack on the popular crypto exchange reflect capabilities on par with those of nation-state-sponsored attackers.

Why you’re more of a sucker than you think.

Editing the epigenome, which turns our genes on and off, could be the “elixir of life.”

Companies like CloudFactory, iMerit, and Samasource promise data sets provided by workers who are well paid and cared for. It’s not an easy business.

CloudFlare has changed expectations of the moral obligations of technology companies.

The debate over “compelled decryption” is likely headed for the US Supreme Court.

A look at the full lifetime emissions of the vehicles call into question the ecological assumptions around “micromobility.”

In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas.

AIMM wants to disrupt online dating. What could go wrong?

How thinking of helpful hackers as the immune systems of the internet can make your security stronger and better prepare and secure your digital presence.

The nascent YouTubers Union has joined forces with Europe’s largest trade union. They argue that YouTube is violating data privacy laws.

He Jiankui met with US investors and entrepreneurs to explore CRISPR-baby tourism.

Governments that want to circumvent US sanctions are turning to cryptocurrencies to avoid the traditional financial system.

Machines that appreciate “brilliant” and “dumb” chess moves could learn to play the game—and do other things—more efficiently.

A new algorithm reveals a web of artistic connections by looking for humans posed similarly in different paintings.