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by Laura Bliss on (#6B59C)
If you think of Michelle Wu as the architect of Boston’s new city government, then Tiffany Chu ’10 might be the general contractor. As the chief of staff to Mayor Wu, Chu is in charge of figuring out how visions of urban transformation actually take shape. Take the Thursday afternoon in early February that found…
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by Michael Blanding on (#6B59A)
Lights, muscles, action Ritu Raman’s engineered muscle cells contract in response to light—and could lead to biologically based robots that adapt to their environment or repair themselves after a crash. Ritu Raman rubs her gloved hands with ethanol and reaches into an incubator the size of a mini-fridge to pull out a tray of petri…
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by Jennifer Chu on (#6B599)
No two hearts beat alike—and that can make it more complicated to treat heart disease. But a team of MIT engineers and others has developed a way to copy a patient’s unique heart in robotic form to help test different therapies more accurately. The procedure involves first converting medical images of a patient’s heart into…
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by Anne Trafton on (#6B597)
About 35 million Americans suffer from digestive issues such as constipation, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and gastroparesis (partial stomach paralysis). These so-called motility disorders, in which food fails to move through the system properly, are often diagnosed using endoscopy, nuclear imaging studies, or x-rays. But engineers at MIT and Caltech have come up with a less…
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by Melissa Heikkilä on (#6B4RJ)
Can you imagine a car company putting a new vehicle on the market without built-in safety features? Unlikely, isn’t it? But what AI companies are doing is a bit like releasing race cars without seatbelts or fully working brakes, and figuring things out as they go. This approach is now getting them in trouble. For…
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by Jenn Webb on (#6B4P8)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Companies are collecting and sharing a growing amount of sustainability data, but they often fail to take advantage of the benefits that their data can provide. This critical cycle of collection and sharing can lead to insights that improve ESG outcomes…
by Rhiannon Williams on (#6B4M8)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The first babies conceived with a sperm-injecting robot have been born Last spring, a group of engineers set out to test the sperm-injecting robot they’d designed. One of the team, with no real…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6B4F8)
Joshua Bergen is a very productive person. His secret is the workspace app Notion. Bergen, a product manager living in Vancouver, uses it to plan trips abroad in meticulous detail, with notes and timelines. He uses it to curate lists of the movies and TV shows he’s watched, and records what he thought of them.…
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by Antonio Regalado on (#6B4F9)
Last spring, engineers in Barcelona packed up the sperm-injecting robot they’d designed and sent it by DHL to New York City. They followed it to a clinic there, called New Hope Fertility Center, where they put the instrument back together, assembling a microscope, a mechanized needle, a tiny petri dish, and a laptop. Then one…
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by Nika Simovich Fisher on (#6B4FA)
One January afternoon last year, a bouquet of balloons arrived at Karen Rose’s residence in Delray Beach, Florida. She wasn’t expecting a delivery, since it wasn’t her birthday or wedding anniversary, and she thought someone had made a mistake until she noticed the words “AND NOW?” printed on each balloon. “AND NOW?” is the prompt…
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by Chuan on (#6B42B)
Digital transformation has become more than a mantra for organizations that want to stay competitive in today’s ever-shifting global business landscape. Digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, are increasingly embedded in key areas of businesses to improve processes, satisfy fluctuating consumer demands, and boost operational resilience in times of uncertainty. “Technology has become…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#6B3N1)
Commitments toward sustainability have become a greater priority in recent years as enterprises look to comply with environmental, social, and governance standards. However, many enterprises are finding that meeting sustainability goals not only aligns with compliance but also offers opportunities to drive new value, growth, and revenue streams. “Just as the digital revolution transformed how…
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by Michael Hathaway, Willoughby Arévalo on (#6B3GJ)
Although most of us think of fungi as “mushrooms,” these spore-producing bodies are just the reproductive organs of mycelium—decentralized, weblike bodies of branching tubes. Though usually microscopic, these structures can be enormous; the largest known example is a honey mushroom (Armillaria) that covers almost 10 square kilometers (3.7 square miles) and has lived for millennia. …
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by Charlotte Jee on (#6B3ET)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why child safety bills are popping up all over the US Bills that are supposed to make the internet safer for children and teens have been popping up all over the United States…
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by Tate Ryan-Mosley on (#6B3CW)
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. Hello and welcome to The Technocrat! Bills ostensibly aimed at making the internet safer for children and teens have been popping up all over the…
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by Pradeep Niroula on (#6B3B6)
Mathematics has long been presented as a sanctuary from confusion and doubt, a place to go in search of answers. Perhaps part of the mystique comes from the fact that biographies of mathematicians often paint them as otherworldly savants—people who seem to pull nature’s deepest truths from thin air and transcribe them in prose so…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6B131)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Artificial intelligence is infiltrating health care. We shouldn’t let it make all the decisions. Would you trust medical advice generated by artificial intelligence? It’s a question raised by yet more headlines this week…
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by Valentine Benjamin on (#6B0XW)
Nigerians have become accustomed to long lines for gasoline and wild fluctuations in bus fares. Though the country is Africa’s largest producer of oil, its residents don’t benefit from a steady supply. Mustapha Gajibo, 30, is doing what he can to alleviate the problem: his startup, Phoenix Renewables Limited, is launching a homegrown electric-vehicle industry in the northeastern…
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by Jessica Hamzelou on (#6B0XV)
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. Would you trust medical advice generated by artificial intelligence? It’s a question I’ve been thinking over this week, in view of yet more headlines proclaiming that AI technologies can diagnose a range…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AZV0)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why your iPhone 17 might come with a recycled battery Lithium-ion batteries power most of our personal electronics today. Mining the metals that make up those batteries can mean a lot of pollution,…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#6AZQV)
Driving is ubiquitous—a part of daily life for millions in rural and urban regions across the globe. Its by-products, however, are sobering. According to the World Economic Forum, transportation produces almost one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. There is an undeniable need to design, develop, and implement solutions to decarbonize and transition to net-zero emissions. Auto industry…
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by Casey Crownhart on (#6AZQW)
My phone is basically an extension of my arm at this point. To be honest, I have some mixed feelings about that, and not just because I worry about what being online 24/7 is doing to my brain cells. As you might know, lithium-ion batteries power most of our personal electronics today. Mining the metals…
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by Joy Lisi Rankin on (#6AZPH)
A decade ago, tech powerhouses the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon helped boost the nonprofit Code.org, a learn-to-code program with a vision: “That every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science as part of their core K–12 education.” It was followed by a wave of nonprofits and for-profits alike dedicated…
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by Tanya Basu on (#6AZ3G)
Snap is planning to launch augmented-reality mirrors that allow shoppers in stores to instantly see how clothes look on them without physically trying them on, the company announced today. The mirrors are going to appear in some US Nike stores later this year, and in the Men’s Wearhouse in Paramus, New Jersey. The mirrors are…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AYMS)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it OpenAI has just over a week to comply with European data protection laws following a temporary ban in Italy, and a slew of…
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by Melissa Heikkilä on (#6AYHA)
OpenAI has just over a week to comply with European data protection laws following a temporary ban in Italy and a slew of investigations in other EU countries. If it fails, it could face hefty fines, be forced to delete data, or even be banned. But experts have told MIT Technology Review that it will…
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by Holly Korbey on (#6AYFR)
Linus Merryman spends about an hour a day on his laptop at his elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, mostly working on foundational reading skills like phonics and spelling. He opens the reading app Lexia with ease, clicking straight through to lessons chosen specifically to address his reading needs. This week Linus, who’s in second grade,…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AXEB)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The quest to build wildfire-resistant homes With each devastating wildfire in the US West, officials consider new methods or regulations that might save homes or lives the next time. In the parts of…
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by Susie Cagle on (#6AX9D)
The first sparks that ignited in the Montecito hills above Santa Barbara, California, on November 13, 2008, were stoked by ferocious sundowner winds gusting at up to 85 miles per hour, pushing the flames down into the densely populated canyon. Troy Harris, then the director of institutional resilience at Westmont College in Montecito, rushed from…
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by Melissa Heikkilä on (#6AX9E)
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. If regulators don’t act now, the generative AI boom will concentrate Big Tech’s power even further. That’s the central argument of a new report from research institute AI Now. And it makes sense. To…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AW7J)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This technology could alter the entire planet. These groups want every nation to have a say. Picture two theoretical futures: one in which nations counteract climate change by reflecting sunlight back into space,…
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by James Temple on (#6AW5T)
Picture two theoretical futures: one in which nations counteract climate change by spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere, and another where the world continues heating up. There are big differences between the two, but a lot of smaller, more subtle changes too. Take malaria, for example—the sixth-largest killer in low-income countries. By 2070, the overall…
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by Tate Ryan-Mosley on (#6AW48)
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. For years, the US has struggled to process all the people who want to come and live here. It’s a slow-rumbling problem that has become…
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by Arian Khameneh on (#6AW2N)
In a Copenhagen suburb, a fifth-grade classroom is having its weekly cake-eating session, a common tradition in Danish public schools. While the children are eating chocolate cake, the teacher pulls up an infographic on a whiteboard: a bar chart generated by a digital platform that collects data on how they’ve been feeling. Organized to display…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6ASV1)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Bacteria can be engineered to fight cancer in mice. Human trials are coming. The news: There are trillions of microbes living in and on our bodies—and we might be able to modify them…
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by Jessica Hamzelou on (#6ASQ7)
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. It’s spring here in the Northern Hemisphere. There are daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths in full bloom in parks and window boxes where I live in London. I even saw some lambs on…
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by Rohan Mehta on (#6ASNY)
The release of ChatGPT has sent shock waves through the halls of higher education. Universities have rushed to release guidelines on how it can be used in the classroom. Professors have taken to social media to share a spectrum of AI policies. And students—whether or not they’ll admit it—have cautiously experimented with the idea of allowing…
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by Jessica Hamzelou on (#6AS30)
There are trillions of microbes living in and on our bodies—and we might be able to modify them to help us treat diseases. Scientists have altered the genomes of some of these bacteria that live on skin, essentially engineering microbes that can prevent or treat cancer. It appears to work in mice, and human trials…
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by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKF)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Watch this engaging discussion between David Robinson, SVP and MD at SAP, and Vibhuti Dubey, SVP, service offering head, Global SAP Practice at Infosys, talk about the key innovations that Infosys and SAP are ushering in for clients who are creating…
by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKG)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Avinash Raghavendra, president and head of IT at Axis Bank, believes in leveraging a cloud-first architecture to digitalize its banking platform, with a focus on providing modern customer interfaces and next-gen products. Read about how Axis Bank took digital steps to…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6ARKH)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. EVs just got a big boost. We’re going to need a lot more chargers. The US government is pushing for many more electric vehicles to hit the roads in the next few years.…
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by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKJ)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Listen to this podcast featuring Infosys leader Mitrankur Majumdar and Lenny J. Schad, a K-12 technology leader, who discuss how educators often overlook the current risks and the need for cybersecurity in schools. Click here to continue.
by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKK)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” A concerted effort to groom a new generation of cybersecurity experts can bridge the skill gap. University courses and certifications can help young graduates find a rewarding career in cybersecurity. Learn from Infosys and Purdue University about their efforts in creating…
by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKM)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” 2023 is the year of conversational AI. Organizations must reconsider how they organize themselves to integrate this trending technology into their operations. A conversational AI center of excellence (CoE) can help organizations scale faster and deliver value by driving business outcomes.…
by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKN)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” An Infosys study of more than 2,500 AI practitioners from 12 industries found that telecom firms have more AI experience than firms in other industries, yet they have the lowest satisfaction rate with their AI deployments. Read the report to understand…
by Jenn Webb on (#6ARKP)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Holistic AI founder, Emre Kazim, discusses the importance of getting ethics, trust, and transparency right in the early days of the algorithmic age. Click here to continue.
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by Casey Crownhart on (#6ARFX)
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s finally springtime in New York. The skies are clearing up, the trees are blooming, and I’m already wishing I could bottle up all this sunshine to save for when winter comes around…
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by Casey Crownhart on (#6AQYA)
The US government is pushing for a massive wave of electric vehicles to hit the roads in the next few years, but the country doesn’t have nearly enough chargers installed to power them all. The Environmental Protection Agency released proposed standards today that set limits for companies on total carbon dioxide emissions from fleets of…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#6AQAW)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI literacy might be ChatGPT’s biggest lesson for schools This year millions of people have tried—and been wowed by— artificial intelligence systems. That’s in no small part thanks to OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. When…
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by Melissa Heikkilä on (#6AQ65)
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This year millions of people have tried—and been wowed by— artificial-intelligence systems. That’s in no small part thanks to OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. When it launched last November, the chatbot became an instant…
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