MIT Technology Review

Election tech giants were called before Congress weeks before the 2020 primary season begins. All of them support greater transparency.

The world’s biggest tech show still has a long way to go in accepting that sex—and women—exist.

But some campaigners are pushing for the rules to change.

A major study shows that people rarely notice if their vote gets changed by hackers—even when using technology meant to protect the ballot.

Facebook and others are battling complex disinformation with AI-driven defences. But this can only get us so far, argues an expert on high-tech propaganda.

All future AI regulations will need to clear the checklist.

The best way to distribute quantum entanglement around the globe is via a massive constellation of orbiting satellites, physicists say.

“Disruptive and destructive” cyberattacks could be the fallout after President Trump targeted Iran’s military leader in a drone strike.

Cash is gradually dying out. Will we ever have a digital alternative that offers the same mix of convenience and freedom?

The star has been dimming rapidly in the last few weeks, and scientists are keen to know why.

The world’s costliest painting depicts a glass sphere with curious optical properties. Computer scientists figured out what the artist was getting at.

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.