MIT Technology Review

Some things need to change if we want AI to be useful next time, and you might not like them.

Headline news and global disorder are tools hackers take advantage of to make their next breach.

The growing outbreak is creating fear and confusion for contractors who lack the protections afforded to permanent employees.

The virus prefers steel and plastic, materials commonly found in hospitals and homes.

In an excerpt from his new book, The Dragons and the Snakes, a leading military strategist explains how the West is losing its technological edge over guerrilla insurgencies.

Google programmer Mehmet Kuzu talked scientists and funders into treating his daughter’s rare genetic disorder with a novel, customized antisense drug

A fast-track vaccine will be tried on people soon but it uses an unproven technology.

It’ll sap funding and political will—but actually, it should.

There are dozens of sites that show you how coronavirus is spreading around the world. Here is our ranking.

Thousands in coronavirus lockdown will be monitored for symptoms—and tracked to make sure they stay at home and don’t become “super spreaders.”

When knitting site Ravelry banned all pro-Trump content it caused a schism in the community—but it also shone a spotlight on how women are using niche sites to politicize.

Hackers working for Kim Jong-un have become experts at covering their tracks on the Bitcoin blockchain.

The first testing kits from the Centers for Disease Control had a simple fault, and red tape prevented other labs from creating their own.

He doesn’t plan to spend nearly as much, but he’s striving to build a broader coalition.

Genetic data shows that countries are getting hit with multiple introductions of the virus.

Researchers managed to amplify nerve signals to the point where they can be translated into movements.

Fraudsters use fake accounts to spread spam, phishing links, or malware. Now Facebook is revealing details on how it uses AI to fight back.

Colleagues reflect on the life and work of the renowned physicist, who died last week.

Google is creating AI-powered robots that navigate without human intervention—a prerequisite to being useful in the real world.

Thousands ordered masks that let them unlock their phones during outbreaks. But this viral art project doesn’t just work with surveillance technology—it works against it, too.

One of the 20th century’s foremost physicists died today.

Some of the smartest people I know are getting ready for a crisis—including me.

Adversarial attacks against the technique that powers game-playing AIs and could control self-driving cars shows it may be less robust than we thought.

But it restricts some of the tools we may need to rapidly cut greenhouse-gas emissions.

Texas’s wind-powered digital gold rush might redraw the global map of the Bitcoin mining network.

NASA’s Artemis program is heralding a moon rush, and nobody—from SpaceX to Russia—wants to be left behind.

Super-cheap DNA sequencing could boost cancer screening, prenatal tests, and research into population genetics.

In recent years, advancements in socially-assistive robots have opened up a promising new way for more affordable and personalized care.

A fiction story about the future

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the elite of the elite gather to hatch plans for the future of the planet. I asked some of this year’s participants to tell me one thing they think will happen by 2030 that most people don’t realize.