MIT Technology Review

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.

But can any company afford to manufacture one-off medical care?

A new wave of chatbots are replacing physicians and providing frontline medical advice—but are they as good as the real thing?

Analyzing the way you type and scroll can reveal as much as a psychological test.

We’ve been using it to type for 144 years. Here’s why it works, and what it would take for us to give it up.

Even the best AI programs still make stupid mistakes. So DARPA is launching a competition to remedy the field’s most glaring flaw.

A simulation lets autonomous cars experience situations that are too dangerous to try in reality.

Lockheed Martin engineers wear the goggles to help them assemble the crew capsule Orion—without having to read thousands of pages of paper instructions.

In as little as 24 hours, Mapper will deliver a machine-readable map of any place on earth with public roads.

It should be possible to automatically identify dubious news sources—but we’ll need a lot more data.

The White House should worry less about China’s progress and invest heavily in artificial intelligence breakthroughs, according to Kai-Fu Lee.

A fresh diplomatic push could help put vital public services off limits to nation-state cyberattacks.

What kind of robot could handle this impossible-seeming cave mission?

Lime and other companies are gathering masses of location-based information that some cities are leveraging to improve their streets.

Facebook’s VR unit revealed the new Quest headset at its conference for developers, but I couldn’t try it from my couch.

Meet the man behind Alibaba’s gamble on emerging tech.

The flexible stamp can collect data that usually requires bulky, invasive equipment.

A popular anti-aging strategy keeps mice from getting senile.

A proposed state law would help bolster the security of internet-connected devices, but what’s really needed is federal action.

Wireless startup WiTricity wants cars to power up without human help and feed utilities energy during peak demand.

The furniture store’s design agency has dreamed up seven ways we might use autonomous vehicles if we don’t actually have to focus on driving.

AI has huge potential to transform our lives, but the term itself is being abused in very worrying ways, says Zachary Lipton, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Two speakers at this year’s EmTech MIT conference addressed voting vulnerabilities.

MIT professor Dina Katabi is building a gadget that can sit in one spot and track everything from breathing to walking, no wearables required.

Top energy scientist Daniel Schrag says we have to adapt and innovate, because we’re already signed up for centuries of higher global temperatures.

Cognitive science and neuroscience could inspire the next big innovations in artificial intelligence, says the head of an ambitious new MIT-led research project.

Materials scientist Gerd Ceder is overseeing a research effort to extend the capabilities of the dominant form of energy storage, using a new class of compounds.

Going mainstream could be disastrous for the currency, if traders treat it like a conventional asset.

A startup called Rigetti Computing is linking quantum computers with classical ones in a new cloud service

That’s the view of security expert Bruce Schneier, who fears lives will be lost in a cyber disaster unless governments act swiftly.

Depending on solar and wind without nuclear, carbon capture, or other “firm low-carbon resources” would be extremely expensive, MIT researchers find.

A startup invests in a way to keep people younger, despite doubts about its science.

And one fundamental question that should underlie tomorrow’s Congressional testimony.

But first we need to convince companies to build nuclear plants at all.

The state is on the verge of passing a rule requiring 100 percent of its electricity to come from carbon-free sources.

A technique called Mendelian randomization could be the revolutionary tool drug companies have been waiting for.

Freelance cybersleuths can help companies find flaws in their code. But the bug hunters could fall afoul of anti-hacking laws.

21st-century digital evangelists had a lot in common with early Christians and Russian revolutionaries.