MIT Technology Review

From the Olympics to elections, nations use hackers to win a bigger geopolitical game.

Four countries are sending robots to Mars, private companies will send humans into orbit, and we’re inching closer to seeing NASA return astronauts to the moon.

The Chinese scientist and two associates were sentenced after a secret trial.

Awkward angles, bad poses, and raw emotions: it was the year of posts about our true selves—or so we thought.

Millions of viewers flock to watch the biggest names on YouTube. But not everyone can be an online video hit.

An introduction to our special issue on youth

Designed at MIT and tested by kids ages 9 through 14, it builds off research that shows how exposing kids to technology fosters their interest in STEM.

Meet the young people who stay offline and hear why they’re doing it.

Fanfic used to be a joke—now it’s teaching kids important skills like learning how to write.

A fiction story about artificial romance

For the past four decades our writers have explored whether video games are a plague upon our youth or the key to the future of education and computing.

As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too.

Inspired by a difference between Chinese and English, it shows how AI research benefits from diversity.

Between NASA and SpaceX, Earth and Mars, there was plenty to groan about in 2019.

The only measurement that matters is greenhouse-gas emissions—and they continued to rise.

We’d better pick up the pace in the 2020s.

Internet companies have been slow to solve their problems. Now everyone else is starting to do it for them.

The year 2019 produced some evidence-based antidotes to the trendy political narratives of robot domination and the collapse of capitalism.

Arguments over whether game addiction is real have led to feuds between government departments and a national debate over policy.

Autopilot run amok, bogus agriculture bots, and genetic gaydar all made our list of the worst technologies of the year.

The technology promises smaller, more capable batteries that can be integrated into products—and, perhaps, designed with recycling in mind.

Social media allows young people to explore how they express themselves, says Taylor Fang of Logan, Utah, the winner of our youth essay contest.

NOAA will get at least $4 million for a research program, which will include efforts to assess “climate interventions.”

But some experts say that D-ID’s “smart video anonymization” technique breaks the law.

As the four craft exit our solar system, a 3D map of the Milky Way reveals which others they’re likely to visit tens of thousands of years on.

If all goes well, NASA could have two brand-new options for sending astronauts to the International Space Station.

Educators love digital devices, but there’s little evidence they help children—especially those who most need help.

It might even piss you off. Thanks, Libra.

Chattanooga, Tennessee, has the state’s worst record for racially motivated incidents. Now the city has called in the experts to monitor what is being said—and perhaps turn things around.

Models can now be steered to generate text based on the topic or sentiment of your choosing.

Other neural nets haven’t progressed beyond simple addition and multiplication, but this one calculates integrals and solves differential equations.

Instead of never-ending progress, today’s kids face a world on the edge of collapse. What next?

It won’t be easy to update the 47-year-old standard for predicting what fires will do—but it will save lives.

The idea is something of a technicality, but nevertheless an interesting one.

At the most prominent AI research gathering of the year, invited speakers and attendees are grappling with how to make technology that better serves the world.

At the opening keynote of a prominent AI research conference, Celeste Kidd, a cognitive psychologist, challenged the audience to think critically about the future they want to build.