MIT Technology Review

Students will learn the language by ordering food or haggling with street vendors on a virtual Beijing street.

We think Neuralink, which develops brain-machine interfaces, is recording from the neurons of monkeys as a stepping stone toward humans.

The super app instantly blocks even the images for over 1 billion users and growing.

Using silica aerogel to trap heat and create liquid water sounds far-fetched, but it could one day be used to help us grow food on the planet’s surface.

Perfect Day says it’s figured out how to make ice cream that’s creamy without any animal protein.

Yann LeCun, Facebook’s chief AI scientist, believes unsupervised learning will bring about the next AI revolution.

Facebook has been dealing with criticism and scrutiny since it unveiled Libra. But the backlash shows that the project is a real wake-up call.

The race is on to create new ways to protect data and communications from the threat posed by super-powerful quantum computers.

Multiplayer poker is the latest game to fall to artificial intelligence—and the techniques used could be vital for trading, product pricing, and routing vehicles.

Gods Unchained is riding a wave of hype because of the way it lets players own digital cards. But the core concept could reach beyond games.

The town’s residents are rebuilding in the wake of the Camp Fire. But should they?

Many women are unaware that they are being spied on with apps hidden on their phones. App-store owners must do more.

Altruism is a puzzle for behavioral biologists. Now the largest-ever study of pay-it-forward reciprocity is throwing new light on the phenomenon.

The ability to focus light into a pattern rather than a point makes metalenses promising tools for carving circuits into silicon.

Its founders think crowdfunding, cryptocurrency, and blockchain voting can help citizens call the shots.

Its new fundamental research division could help the company regain international favor and outmaneuver the US.

Another genetically edited baby is due, but the world may never learn of its birth if the Chinese government decides to keep it a secret.

Unless we begin shutting down coal and natural-gas facilities, and stop building new ones, we’re doomed to miss the targets of the Paris treaty.

Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine translation treatment.