MIT Technology Review

Technology makes fighting war easier and more palatable—but it dangerously changes the nature of the fight, argues a US Marine veteran.

Form Energy, Antora, and others are trying to develop very cheap, very long-lasting storage to clean up the electricity system.

Doctors say gene medicine tailored to a single person can work, but it still costs millions.

Rocket launches that leave on a regular schedule will make it much cheaper and easier to get small satellites into orbit.

An algorithm uses radio waves rather than visible light to detect what people are up to without revealing what they look like.

A black hole offers plenty of energy sources that might give life a foothold. But a NASA scientist has determined that despite what you saw in the movies, habitable conditions nearby are pretty unlikely.

Microgrids, buried lines, better building standards and more.

The Pentagon’s controversial $10bn JEDI cloud computing deal is one of the most lucrative defense contracts ever. Amazon’s in pole position to win—and its move into the military has been a long time coming.

Bans on the technology have mostly focused on law enforcement, but there’s a growing movement to get it out of school, parks, and private businesses too.

A new kind of analysis shows why the Barcelona team of 2009-10 stands head and shoulders above the rest. And the same approach could do the same for other sports.

Stable digital currencies—and particularly Facebook’s plans to launch one—have central bankers playing defense.

NASA has shared audio snippets of Martian quakes detected by the InSight lander earlier this year.

What makes an extraterrestrial world habitable? New tools and modeling software are providing clues.

A new model suggests the price should start high and then fall over time, in a total reversal of conventional wisdom.

As deepfakes get better, companies are rushing to develop technology to detect them. But little of their potential harm will be fixed without social and legal solutions.

Astronomers think there’s another planet in our solar system, but no one has been able to see it. That could be because it’s not a conventional planet at all.

Publicly, the platform says it’s trying to do what it can to minimize the amplification of extreme content. But it’s still looking for ways to keep users on the site.

Gary Marcus, a leader in the field, discusses how we could achieve general intelligence—and why that might make machines safer.

A new analysis suggests that dew harvesting, an affordable passive technology, could be practical in places where it has never been possible before.

A secret-shopper study shows that automated medicine is safer and more efficient than we thought.

Theoretically, Google could fire the Pittsburgh tech contractors who just voted to unionize.