MIT Technology Review

Three generations of personal and political history show the tensions between the Communist Party’s need for knowledge and its need for ideological control.

An interview with Yasheng Huang, MIT professor and expert on entrepreneurship in China.

And in the next few years it plans to launch the world’s biggest space telescope, the world’s heaviest rocket, and a space station to rival the ISS.

It used to be that while Google wanted China, China really needed Google. Not any more.

Payment apps like Alipay and WeChat transformed daily life in China. The West won’t see a similar payments revolution—and that might even be a good thing.

Shenzhen flooded the world with cheap gadgets. Can it now become what Silicon Valley never did—a global hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing?

The next generation of wireless technology promises much faster speeds while using less power. No wonder Beijing is throwing everything at getting there first.

China was no good at cars. Then EVs came along.

24M is reducing manufacturing costs by stripping out extraneous materials – and just got $22 million to begin building its first commercial factory.

The country has struggled for decades to build a competitive semiconductor industry. In making specialized AI chips, though, it’s got a head start.

The blockchain system has daunting technical problems to fix. But first, its disciples need to figure out how to govern themselves.

Once nuclear’s strongest booster, China is growing wary about its cost and safety.

In 2015, an unknown Chinese scientist edited the DNA of human embryos. It was a step on an inexorable path to designer babies.

7 questions for Andrew Yang, the 2020 US presidential candidate pushing for basic income.

The biggest fear is that China could exploit the telecom giant’s gear to wreak havoc in a crisis.

The research institute AI Now has identified facial recognition as a key challenge for society and policymakers—but is it too late?

The coming rise in private spaceflight is prompting growth in space companies that give citizen astronauts the know-how they need to fly.

Some US experts think it could take at least 20 years to get quantum-proof encryption widely deployed.

Smartphones that are used to track our faces and voices could also help lower the barrier to mental-health diagnosis and treatment.

Creating a lifelike digital scene normally requires skill, creativity, and patience. Now we can just offload the work to an AI algorithm.

Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are fueling creativity—and controversy. Here’s how they work.

The maker community helped me create everything from my bouquet to my cake toppers—and gave me an insight into the technology’s possibilities.

Optical chips have been tried before—but the rise of deep learning may offer an opportunity to succeed where others have failed.

The US economy could lose $221 billion annually by 2090 as people stop working as much or as hard.

And that’s just in the United States.

He Jiankui says he created twin girls whose genes were edited to make them resistant to HIV. Was that ethical? Or even legal?

A daring effort is under way to create the first children whose DNA has been tailored using gene editing.

A diet supplemented with red algae could lessen the huge amounts of greenhouse gases emitted by cows and sheep, if we can just figure out how to grow enough.

The delivery giant’s new machine-learning app aims to reroute packages away from snow and other trouble spots in its global network.

The main targets were foreign media websites, says a new service that automates censorship-tracking in countries governed by repressive regimes.

A startup says it has tackled a long-standing problem that has kept smart contracts from responding to actual events.

Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk of an AI arms race and make the technology more accessible to the developing world.

The automaker believes sponsorship and ride-sharing will be key to making its nascent autonomous-car business take off.

A sensor that can spot the wind direction from miles away will let DARPA’s surveillance balloons hover at the very edge of space in one spot indefinitely.

Policies leading to more destruction of the Amazon and Cerrado would have a huge impact on climate change.

Debate over a new idea for stopping malaria is pitting some environmental groups against Bill Gates.

But are the country’s next-generation power lines a clean-power play or a global power move?

Kebotix is using AI and robotics to brainstorm—and then test—novel compounds.

The firm will pit its Bristlecone quantum processor against a classical supercomputer early next year and see which comes out on top.

At Ethereum’s annual developer conference, its founder tells us why his technology can only be truly decentralized if it stops depending on him.

With the growth in e-sports, more gamers are investing in some personal tutoring to help them progress. We paid a Fortnite coach to teach us his top tips.

An MIT experiment is handing a single person’s free will to the crowd to test how the digital hive mind works.

A manufacturing trick with magnetic fields produces a battery that may discharge fast enough to get an aircraft off the ground.

The fiber-optic cables carrying data across the internet are vulnerable to hacking. Two US initiatives aim to fix that by creating super-secure quantum transmissions.

The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures.

One day, gene therapy may help with the rarest of diseases. Some parents aren’t waiting.

Are we designing inequality into our genes?

Amazon paid $1 billion for the security company. Our data analysis questions the claims that purchase was based on.

Your life span is written in your DNA, and we’re learning to read the code.

Your family and friends will be able to interact with a digital “you” that doles out advice—even when you’re gone.