MIT Technology Review

The quest to understand common diseases takes on unprecedented scope.

Half a billion dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency was stolen—that’s gotten people’s attention.

Toxic effects seen in animals raise questions about new gene therapies for children.

Satori is built to turn routers, thermostats, and other household devices into zombies.

Advances in DNA sequencing and AI could make the idea a more practical treatment option.

In a new book, political scientist Virginia Eubanks says using computers to decide who gets social services hurts the poor.

There are about as many opinions as there are experts.

The AI boom offers Chinese chipmakers a chance to catch up after years of lagging behind.

Wind energy is booming, making maintenance work on turbines one of the fastest-growing jobs in the US.

A forthcoming UN regulation will slash shipping industry pollution but may also speed up climate change.

At Amazon Go, you grab your milk and leave. It might take some getting used to.

Software that hijacks your computer to mine has become the most popular malware on the planet.

50,000 healthy people will be screened in an effort to detect hidden tumors.

Close examination reveals how power is being consolidated across their networks.

The fastest-growing business app is relying on machine-learning tricks to fend off a deluge of messages—as well as competition from Facebook and Microsoft.

I rode in a bunch of autonomous cars so you don’t have to.

The company’s cryptocurrency has also seen an incredible run-up in value, but investors may have gotten the wrong idea.

Researchers have found worrying security holes in apps companies use to control industrial processes.

Gene editing can change an animal’s sex.

AI will make better decisions by embracing uncertainty.

Six drug firms are paying to sequence the genes of every volunteer in the UK Biobank.

Six drug firms are paying to sequence all the DNA in the UK Biobank.

Entrepreneurial parents are reinventing the baby bottle, sleep monitor, and breast pump.

Robots may take over, but they’ll look cool doing it.

Federal and state legislators are already developing plans to stop Internet providers from dictating what you can see online.

From AI-powered hacking to tampering with voting systems, here are some of the big risks on our radar screen.

This year, social media threatened the planet, homemade CRISPR injections went viral, and a security robot drowned itself. Meet the technologies that we wish we hadn’t.

Codecademy, Coursera, edX, and Udacity reveal their most popular courses of 2017 and what they think will trend in 2018.

Our staff pick their favorites.

High-voltage direct-current transmission lines hold the key to slashing greenhouse gases.

It’s been a bad year for America’s biggest tech hub—though not because of a lack of innovation.

Drawing on giant population studies, the diagnostics company Myriad Genetics introduces a novel type of DNA test to predict cancer.

As many foreign workers are forced out of the country, don’t expect smart machines to clean your office or help out on the farm.

It’s expected to deliver hormones more effectively than injections or pills.

Shirley Ann Jackson worked to help bring about more diversity at MIT, where she was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate. She then applied her mix of vision and pragmatism in the lab, in Washington, and at the helm of a major research university.

A new wave of gene-edited crops are dodging regulators, and they’re about to reach stores.

The first clinical trials are slated to begin in the U.S. and Europe while others are stalled.

Don’t worry about supersmart AI eliminating all the jobs. That’s just a distraction from the problems even relatively dumb computers are causing.

iRobot CEO Colin Angle says mapping data generated by the company’s robotic cleaners will finally make our homes intelligent.

The once popular messaging platform goes dark this week, but its legacy of instant communication is here to stay.

A new wave of mobile AR and VR apps is here, and these are the ones you need to check out.

A technology feared for its potential as a bioweapon is attracting interest from farmers as a way to control pests.

It is trying. But the cryptocurrency is bigger than any country, even the one where it has been most popular.

Raffi Krikorian, the CTO of the Democratic National Committee, is out to beat hackers—and the Republicans.

Congress needs to move fast to limit the damage.

The country is a hub for trading virtual currencies despite a government clampdown and North Korean cyberattacks.

A pioneering photojournalist hopes VR can restore war photography’s dramatic power to influence and inform us.

AI tools could help us turn information gleaned from genetic sequencing into life-saving therapies.

The state measures could save hundreds of millions of tons in carbon emissions over the next decade.