MIT Technology Review

Starting with just a digital file, scientists manufactured the common flu virus.

It’s hard to teach machines to use language. That’s why they should teach themselves instead.

Companies want to replace addictive painkillers and help people detox from opioids.

Many things still need to change before electric vehicles can become a mainstream choice.

For now, cheap laser sensors may not offer the standard of data required for driving at highway speeds.

Researchers have demonstrated they can efficiently improve the DNA of human embryos.

If the crystal ball is right, you’ll be eating lab-grown chicken nuggets in your autonomous car and thanking your lucky stars for male birth control.

Challenging written characters make voice-based computing a natural for China, but computers that can hold a conversation in Chinese are some way off.

Helix will sequence your genes for $80 and lure app developers to sell you access to different parts of it.

Drone delivery won’t happen until the unmanned vehicle can master the emergency landing.

The best defense against malicious AI is AI.

Study finds that if the world doesn’t begin cutting emissions soon, the price of capturing and storing carbon dioxide will soar.

Intersection, which is funded by Alphabet, hopes they could someday guide autonomous vehicles, too.

NuScale is on track to build the first commercial small modular reactors in the United States.

In Israeli’s cybersecurity-focused tech scene, cars are becoming a hot area.

We aren’t entirely sure what the government is doing with the images.

A visit to the country’s Bajío region finds a thriving car ecosystem.

MIT’s Ernest Moniz has taken on new roles preventing nuclear war, advocating for clean energy, and criticizing Trump’s policies.

Ya-Qin Zhang expects investments in artificial intelligence and other technologies to help turn his company into a global leader.

IBM, number 39 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, overhyped its Watson machine-learning system, but the company still could have the best access to the kind of data needed to make medicine much smarter.

Using his background in chemistry, CEO Joseph DeSimone has taken a whole new approach to advanced manufacturing, enabling Carbon, number 18 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, to print materials with a broad range of useful properties.

A British company, number 32 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, bets a tiny analyzer will change how we look at DNA.

Superstar companies are dominating the economy by exploiting a growing gap in digital competencies.

Neuroscientist Kay Tye tackles the physical basis of emotions and behavior.

As part of its shift toward high-tech businesses, the 125-year-old company, number 40 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, is threading artificial intelligence throughout its operations, starting with its scientists.

A few companies that master digital technologies are capturing huge chunks of the economy. Does this explain the persistence of slow growth?

Our editors pick the 50 companies that best combine innovative technology with an effective business model.

Alphabet, number 5 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, thinks it can wrest the cloud computing market away from Amazon by helping companies make use of machine learning with a tool called TensorFlow.

A product idea hatched at MIT evolves into biodegradable menstrual pads—and a win for gender equity.

Melonee Wise’s startup Fetch Robotics employs about 50 people and more than 125 robots. She intends to create many more jobs for both.

The giant e-commerce platform Alibaba and its charismatic founder, Jack Ma, have a plan to add a million U.S. jobs by enticing American companies to sell to China.

The People’s Bank of China has developed a digital currency that’s designed to scale to the number of transactions made every day across the country.

Its new CEO will inherit many problems, but a business plan based on the elusive dream of driverless cars is the largest.

Whether he’s blocking a 300-pound defensive lineman or hitting the math books, this doctoral candidate just won’t quit.

Whether he’s blocking a 300-pound defensive lineman or hitting the math books, this doctoral candidate just won’t quit.

Tech startups helped turn a handful of metro areas into megastars. Now they’re tearing those cities apart.

Nearly two dozen researchers critique a proposal for wind, solar, and water power gaining traction in policy circles.

New technologies for storing power from wind and solar farms will be key to a clean-energy future. But Aquion Energy’s recent bankruptcy shows the market challenge of making that happen.

Wheelys tests a 24-hour store run entirely by technology.

Chinese parents can now decode the genomes of their healthy newborns, revealing disease risks as well as the likelihood of physical traits like male-pattern baldness.

VR can be the basis of a new communications industry if the technology becomes less insular and isolating.

A startup called Darwin Life says it will use a controversial fertility technique to help forty-somethings get pregnant for $100,000.

A startup called Darwin Life says it will use a controversial fertility technique to help forty-somethings get pregnant for $100,000.

Courts, banks, and other institutions are using automated data analysis systems to make decisions about your life. Let’s not leave it up to the algorithm makers to decide whether they’re doing it appropriately.

A community of San Diego retirees is using the personal-assistant gadget to listen to audiobooks, keep current with family news, and control home appliances.

In an exclusive interview, the CEO of Apple talks about artificial intelligence in iPhones and why he doesn’t want to talk about the future.

In Rwanda, an early commercial test of unmanned aerial vehicles cuts a medical facility’s time to procure blood from four hours to 15 minutes.

The White House’s deep proposed cuts to energy R&D could cede leadership to China, and derail the international Mission Innovation partnership.

Loxo Oncology is developing a so-called “tumor agnostic” drug that requires expensive genetic testing often not covered by insurance.

Seventy percent of cancers caught early are curable. Can a blood test find them?