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by Rhiannon Williams on (#692JM)
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. How did China come to dominate the world of electric cars? Before most people could realize what was happening, China became a world leader in electric vehicles. And the momentum hasn’t slowed: In…
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by Melissa Heikkilä on (#692DM)
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Have you been threatened by an AI chatbot yet? Over the past week it seems like almost every news outlet has tried Microsoft’s Bing AI search and found that the chatbot makes up…
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by Gouri Sharma on (#692DN)
Nakeema Stefflbauer had only lived in Berlin for a couple of years when refugees from countries such as Syria and Iraq began arriving in Germany in great numbers in 2015. A native New Yorker who was familiar with Arabic and Middle Eastern culture from her travels in the area, Stefflbauer decided to volunteer to support…
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by Zeyi Yang on (#692DQ)
Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. Before most people could realize the extent of what was happening, China became a world leader in making and buying EVs. And the momentum hasn’t slowed: In just the past…
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by Christian Elliott on (#692DP)
The residents of Vanuatu, a clutch of islands in the South Pacific, are no strangers to flooding. The ocean floor around them is frequently shaken by tsunami-triggering earthquakes. Some advance warning could give residents enough time to get to higher ground before tsunamis strike, saving lives. But the world’s 65 active deep-ocean buoys, which are…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#691KK)
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. How Citizen is trying to remake itself by recruiting elderly Asians Members of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community in the US are living through a period of ongoing race-based attacks—most recently in…
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by Lam Thuy Vo on (#691KP)
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. When it’s dark outside and Josephine Zhao has to walk even a few blocks home in San Francisco, she will sometimes call in an extra set of eyes—literally. After opening the Citizen app on her phone, Zhao connects with one of the…
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by Tate Ryan-Mosley on (#691KN)
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. We often hear big (and unrealistic) promises about the potential of AI to solve the world’s ills, and I was skeptical when I first learned that AI…
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by Geoff Manaugh on (#691KM)
ONE Jarrod Burks opened the rear cargo door of his van and pointed to an array of strange equipment tangled inside. White PVC tubes were locked together, forming an expandable, fence-like grid, with large, rugged wheels attached beneath. Beside it all, on a layer of soft blankets, were a tablet computer, many yards of cables,…
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by Casey Crownhart on (#68ZF3)
New batteries are coming to America. This week, Ford announced plans for a new factory in Michigan that will produce lithium iron phosphate batteries for its electric vehicles. The plant, expected to cost $3.5 billion and begin production in 2026, would be the first to make these batteries in the US. “This is a big…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#68ZAP)
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. Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse Today’s headlines treat the metaverse as a hazy dream yet to be built. But if it’s defined as a network of virtual worlds we can…
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by John-Clark Levin on (#68Z52)
Today’s headlines treat the metaverse as a hazy dream yet to be built, but if it’s defined as a network of virtual worlds we can inhabit, its oldest extant corner has been already running for 25 years. It’s a medieval fantasy kingdom created for the online role-playing game Ultima Online—and it has already endured a…
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by Patrick Sisson on (#68Z53)
The batteries propelling electric vehicles have quickly become the most crucial component, and expense, for a new generation of cars and trucks. They represent not only the potential for cleaner transportation but also broad shifts in geopolitical power, industrial dominance, and environmental protection. According to recent predictions, EVs will make up just over half of…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#68Y3C)
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. How K-pop fans are shaping elections around the globe Back in the early ‘90s, Korean pop music, known as K-pop, was largely conserved to its native South Korea. It’s since exploded around the…
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by Casey Crownhart on (#68XZ8)
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. When it comes to watching the Super Bowl, I’ve always been more of a football person than a commercials person. During Sunday’s game, though, I couldn’t help but notice something about the ads. …
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by Will Douglas Heaven on (#68XXM)
It’s a good time to be a search startup. When I spoke to Richard Socher, the CEO of You.com, last week he was buzzing: “Man, what an exciting day—looks like another record for us,” he exclaimed. “Never had this many users. It’s been a whirlwind.” You wouldn’t know that two of the biggest firms in…
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by Soo Youn on (#68XXK)
Less than a month before Chile’s presidential election on December 19, 2021, Constanza Jorquera, an associate researcher at the Chilean Korean Study Center at the University of Santiago, Chile, feared that her country’s future—and her own rights—hung in the balance. The right-wing candidate, a 55-year-old former congressman named Jose Antonio Kast, had won the first…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#68WTB)
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. These startups hope to spray iron particles above the ocean to fight climate change A Palo Alto–based startup wants to begin releasing iron particles into the exhaust stream of a shipping vessel crossing…
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by Zeyi Yang on (#68WPG)
Every once in a while, there’s one thing that gets everybody obsessed. In the Chinese tech world last week, it was ChatGPT. Maybe it was because of the holiday season, or maybe it was because ChatGPT is not currently available in China, but it took more than two months for the natural-language-processing chatbot to finally…
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by Will Douglas Heaven on (#68WPF)
At 82 years old, with an aggressive form of blood cancer that six courses of chemotherapy had failed to eliminate, “Paul” appeared to be out of options. With each long and unpleasant round of treatment, his doctors had been working their way down a list of common cancer drugs, hoping to hit on something that…
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by James Temple on (#68WMV)
Within the next 18 months, a Palo Alto–based startup wants to begin releasing a small quantity of iron-rich particles into the exhaust stream of a shipping vessel crossing the open ocean. Blue Dot Change hopes to determine whether the particles will accelerate the destruction of methane, one of the most powerful greenhouse gases in the…
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by Jenn Webb on (#68W4C)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” From being used to migrate and eliminate existing shadow IT applications to short-term projects to operational reporting and self-service applications, we see a marked movement toward enterprise-grade applications that perform complex functions. This paper captures the key trends Infosys sees across…
by Jenn Webb on (#68W2J)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Hatch, a provider of business and technical experience to multiple sectors, developed a virtual reality solution in the cloud to improve its project review process. Maurice Tayeh, global CIO for Hatch, shares details about the innovative solution that improved their time…
by Jenn Webb on (#68W2K)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Avrohom Gottheil, founder of #AskTheCEO Media, recaps the fascinating conversation he had with Vishal Salvi, SVP & CISO at Infosys, about the evolution of cybersecurity and the question about whose responsibility it is to keep us safe. Click here to continue.
by Jenn Webb on (#68W2M)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Cybersecurity experts tell us the hows and whys of today’s cybersecurity world, and how the emerging hacker ecosystem calls for a new type of defender. Click here to continue.
by Jenn Webb on (#68W2N)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Chaos engineering is a new approach to learning about systems by breaking them and determining whether they can be easily recovered. Security chaos engineering assesses cyber resiliency through controlled but random experiments, and identifies potential failures before they turn into outages.…
by Jenn Webb on (#68W2P)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Naomi Weir, innovation program director of the Confederation of British Industry, talks with Infosys about her work guiding British business toward innovation, new ways to deal with data, and sustainability in a period of economic uncertainty. Click here to continue.
by Jenn Webb on (#68W2Q)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Sivakumar Balasubramanian, vice president of factory support engineering at Spirit AeroSystems, talks to Infosys about the need for transformation in the aerospace industry and how a strong technology backbone that delivers a single source of truth can help build an intelligent…
by Jenn Webb on (#68W2R)
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” KONE is tying the physical and digital worlds together to create new value for its customers and users. Hotels can now use KONE technology to create personalized experiences for guests, such as offering the ability to summon an elevator from a…
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by Casey Crownhart on (#68W2S)
We’re entering the era of the heat pump. The concept behind heat pumps is simple: powered by electricity, they move heat around to either cool or heat buildings. It’s not a new idea—they were invented in the 1850s and have been used in homes since the 1960s. But all of a sudden, they’ve become the…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#68VXP)
The finance sector is among the keenest adopters of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), the predictive powers of which have been demonstrated everywhere from back-office process automation to customer-facing applications. AI models excel in domains requiring pattern recognition based on well-labeled data, like fraud detection models trained on past behavior. ML can support…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#68VGF)
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 you shouldn’t trust AI search engines Last week was the week chatbot-powered search engines were supposed to arrive. The idea is for AI bots to generate chatty answers to our questions, instead…
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by Melissa Heikkilä on (#68VCQ)
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week was the week chatbot-powered search engines were supposed to arrive. The big idea is that these AI bots would upend our experience of searching the web by generating chatty answers…
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by Clive Thompson on (#68VBA)
Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or less what happened to Graydon Hoare. In 2006, Hoare was a 29-year-old computer programmer working for Mozilla, the open-source browser company. Returning home to his apartment in Vancouver, he found that the elevator was out of order; its…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#68TAR)
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 biohacking company is using a crypto city to test controversial gene therapies Last year, biotech startup Minicircle started recruiting participants for a clinical trial of gene therapy. But several details made it…
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by Tate Ryan-Mosley on (#68T6V)
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. Recommendation algorithms sort most of what we see online and determine how posts, news articles, and accounts you follow are prioritized on digital platforms. In the…
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by Laurie Clarke on (#68T5P)
The advertisement—posted on Mirror, a Web3 publishing platform, in March last year—outlined an eye-catching if perhaps confusing proposal: “Access NFTs for a follistatin plasmid phase I clinical trial in Prospera ZEDE, Honduras.” The ad had been posted by a biotech startup called Minicircle, which was recruiting participants for a clinical trial of gene therapy. But…
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by Matthew Ponsford on (#68T5N)
When the Mexica people left their ancestral land of Aztlán in search of a new home, they were following orders from the sun god Huitzilopochtli. In 1325, the god’s prophecy brought them to a salty swamp at the lowest dip of the Valley of Mexico. “Among the reeds and bushes they spotted an eagle perched…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#68QN7)
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. These prosthetics break the mold with third thumbs, spikes, and superhero skins Traditionally, prosthetics designers have looked to the human body for inspiration. Prosthetics were seen as replacements for missing body parts; hyper-realistic…
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by Joanna Thompson on (#68QGM)
Many mornings, Dani Clode wakes up, straps a robotic thumb to one of her hands, and gets to work, poring through reams of neuroscience data, sketching ideas for new prosthetic devices, and thinking about ways to augment the human body. Clode works as a specialist at the University of Cambridge’s Plasticity Lab, which studies the…
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by Jessica Hamzelou on (#68QFA)
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. How worried should we be about bird flu? Some have warned that avian flu will be the next deadly pandemic. Others have said the risk is no different from what it was…
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by Antonio Regalado on (#68PX7)
Imagine that you were provided no-cost fertility treatment and also offered a free DNA test to gauge which of those little IVF embryos floating in a dish stood the best chance of getting into a top college someday. Would you have the test performed? If you said yes, you’re among about 40% percent of Americans…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#68PEK)
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. ChatGPT is everywhere. Here’s where it came from We’ve reached peak ChatGPT. Released in December as a web app by the San Francisco–based firm OpenAI, the chatbot exploded into the mainstream almost overnight. …
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by Casey Crownhart on (#68PAG)
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. I’ve come across some pretty wild technologies aimed at fighting climate change. Hydrogen-powered planes, underwater mining robots, and nuclear fusion reactors—each could play a role in cutting down on greenhouse-gas emissions. But there…
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by Rebecca Ackermann on (#68P8N)
When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At the time, Cornforth was a director at the Edible Schoolyard Project, a nonprofit that uses gardening and cooking in schools to teach and to provide nutritious food. She was there to meet with…
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by Will Douglas Heaven on (#68NMS)
Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. We’ve reached peak ChatGPT. Released at the end of November as a web app by the San Francisco–based firm OpenAI, the chatbot exploded into the mainstream almost overnight. According to…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#68NBK)
From AI-powered platforms that can detect abnormal activities in supermarkets, to edge servers helping preserve biodiversity in remote locations, today’s technologies drive innovation in ways never before imaginable. “Innovation serves the purpose of making our life better, our work more productive, and our planet more sustainable,” says Yang Yuanqing, CEO and chairman of Lenovo. Technology…
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by MIT Technology Review Insights on (#68NBM)
For enterprises looking to shift from hardware investments to services and beyond, a change in technology and data infrastructure could be key. One approach is a focus on the “New IT,” a term coined by Lenovo, that features five elements: client, edge and cloud, network, and intelligence to meet business goals. “The mission of the…
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by Rhiannon Williams on (#68N72)
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. Neuroscientists listened in on people’s brains for a week. They found order and chaos. The news: Our brains exist in a state somewhere between stability and chaos as they help us make sense…
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by Zeyi Yang on (#68N3E)
China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. First of all, I’m still processing the whole “Chinese spy balloon” saga, which, from start to finish, took over everyone’s brains for just about 72 hours and has been one of the weirdest recent events…
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