MIT Technology Review

Builders are experimenting with Microsoft’s HoloLens to visualize projects and avoid expensive mistakes.

Builders are experimenting with Microsoft’s HoloLens to visualize projects and avoid expensive mistakes.

Machines that truly understand language would be incredibly useful. But we don’t know how to build them.

The demise of the coal industry should start a discussion of how we will respond to the economic upheaval caused by global warming.

A new $8 billion electricity transmission system is now complete, but it’s already nearing maximum capacity.

In Zhenan Bao’s lab at Stanford, researchers are ­inventing materials for touch-sensitive prosthetics.

New incentives could make corporations work harder to keep our data safe.

Chatbots are being prepped to take over many administrative tasks.

Cheaper and cleaner nuclear plants could finally become reality—but not in the United States, where the technology was invented more than 50 years ago.

The tech giants are eager to rent out their AI breakthroughs to other companies.

When Beta Bionics needed idealistic investors it found them on the Web.

Estonia aims to bring 10 million people to its digital shores.

Startups focused on Asia are among those aiming to bring precision medicine to far more people.

His startup is using data to unlock the connections between DNA and illness.

Thirteen years after the human genome was sequenced, some remarkable treatments are being developed.

Toys and other devices are collecting loads of data from children. What could go wrong?

Microsoft turns the popular game into an “AI Olympics.”

New DNA fix stops brain-destroying terminal illness, but only if it’s given early enough.

So far, connected devices are monitoring shipping containers, fire hydrants, and cows.

In one study, virtual reality did about as well as narcotics in reducing pain.

Do-it-yourself biologists who hit the crowdfunding jackpot have learned that genetic engineering isn’t so easy after all.

Do-it-yourself biologists who hit the jackpot on Kickstarter have learned that genetic engineering isn’t so easy after all.

We have a long way to go if we want virtual assistants to understand us.

Sense’s $299 gadget identifies individual devices in the home and exactly how much electricity they are using.

Elon Musk has made a bold bet that the car industry can move faster than anybody believed possible.

Stalled projects and underperforming plants have hampered China’s desalination plans.

Perovskite crystals could be engineered to far outperform silicon.

Digitization promises lower annual emissions but could increase them over plants’ lifetimes.

The available evidence suggests that face matching systems don’t work equally well for different races.

Want to make a smart coffee mug that signals “hot”? A customized printer can make the flexible circuits and supercapacitors you’ll need.

Extraterrestrial ventures are no longer limited to deep-pocketed tycoons.

Extraterrestrial ventures are no longer limited to deep-pocketed tycoons.

Same-day grocery delivery is a notoriously difficult business, but Instacart believes it’s found a way to make money.

As oil declines, huge wind farms are providing electricity to Northern Europe.

Questions about accuracy and transparency plague the bureau’s five-year-old face matching system.

Elon Musk is making bold claims about creating a new energy company, but the key ingredient to make it work remains elusive.

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

The consumer genetic-testing startup has amassed one of the world’s largest databases of DNA. Now it is sifting through it for clues to new drugs.

The world’s leading chip maker missed a huge opportunity in mobile devices. Now the rise of artificial intelligence gives the company another chance to prove itself.

An old-school manufacturer is building smart factories to remain globally competitive.

The startup’s cheaper way to make lithium-ion batteries could make it cost-effective to store energy from renewable sources.

Companies taking advantage of amazing new digital technologies dominate our list of 50 Smartest Companies. But despite impressive advances in artificial intelligence and automation, the economy remains in a troubling slowdown.

Funding for British research and innovation is only one reason.

Google’s augmented-reality platform, Tango, is being taken up by retailers who want to help you visualize what purchases would look like in your home.

We can now efficiently split water to make hydrogen, but a practical way to make fuels via artificial photosynthesis remains an elusive goal.

Jean Liu explains how her ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing is besting Uber in China and why data is its biggest asset.

Even amid the venture capital boom of the past few years, entrepreneurs are finding it harder to build big, enduring companies. What does this mean for the future of innovation?

The executive chairman of Cisco has become a Silicon Valley statesman, whether he’s promoting the expansion of digital networks or calling for limits on government surveillance.

Schemes for giving everyone a guaranteed income are gaining momentum in Silicon Valley and throughout Western Europe. It’s a great idea, until you look closely.

Spark Therapeutics is turning gene-therapy experiments into real drugs.