MIT Technology Review

Big-money politics is making it harder than ever to tame Big Tech.

Shared autonomous vehicles could transform American cities built around car ownership.

Behind every piece of automation is a human who made it happen.

The Ausbildung is widely touted as an example other countries should follow. But it’s struggling to keep up with technological change.

Toledo has more robots per worker than any other US city. They’re producing a healthy economy—and lots of anxiety.

A Canadian province is giving people money with no strings attached—revealing both the appeal and the limitations of the idea.

A Canadian province is giving people money with no strings attached—revealing both the appeal and the limitations of the idea.

Facebook, Amazon, and Google will resist attempts to restrain their market power. But for the sake of our collective prosperity and our personal privacy, it’s a fight we can’t afford to lose.

Potential pitfalls include putting the military in charge and spraying too much money around.

Artificial intelligence is offering an amazing opportunity to increase prosperity, but whether or not ­we will seize it is our choice.

Artificial intelligence can turn the most dangerous industrial robots into helpful coworkers, and that could transform manufacturing.

CATL’s stock has shot up since it raised nearly $1 billion in an IPO to build more lithium-ion battery plants.

Copying the features of a neural network in silicon might make machine learning more usable on small devices like smartphones.

The technology used to build America’s new Summit machine will also help us make the leap to exascale computing.

A new analysis shows that air capture could cost less than $100 a ton.

The president’s most senior technology advisor claims the White House is quietly pursuing an aggressive AI plan.

Additive manufacturing is creating everything from prototype potato chips to sports-car parts.

Humans are still crucial to Amazon’s fulfillment process.

Other power producers will immediately challenge the order.

We talk about the future of work at small firms with MIT professor Liz Reynolds.

States in the US have been slow to test newborns for genetic conditions.

After years of measuring California’s Sierra snowpack from the air, the agency is now developing similar systems for space.

I’m not kicking our smart speaker out of the house just yet, but the consequences of having it in my family’s life are becoming clear.

If blockchains are really going to give us the internet of money, they’ll need to work together.

Without big changes, the oversupply of renewables will stall efforts to overhaul the power sector.

But DARPA’s technologists admit that it might be a losing battle.

The woman organizing our messy digital lives to survive us.

The Chinese firm Bitmain dominates the market for tailor-made mining hardware and shows no sign of slowing down.

Zapata Computing plans to build the algorithms for companies that want to experiment with quantum computers.

Livestock Labs is getting bio-monitors under cows’ skin in hopes of helping farmers spot disease earlier, and it wants to bring its tech to people, too.

A decade of investment in advanced biofuels led nowhere, but Jay Keasling remains undaunted.

Biologist George Church says the idea is to live to 130 in the body of a 22-year-old.

Don’t forget that forking over more and more of your data remains part of the bargain.

AI startup Gamalon developed a clever new way for chatbots and virtual assistants to converse with us.

Experts suggest that having AI systems try to outwit one another could help a person judge their intentions.

At Facebook’s annual developer conference, the social network’s CEO used a lot of familiar words to share a few new things.

Operator of genealogy website claims “no knowledge” of police exploit on vast data set.

By filtering out road vibrations, ClearMotion can prevent carsickness in autonomous vehicles.

What makes blockchain devotees so passionate about the technology? We sent reporters and photographers to two blockchain conferences to find out.

Three ways Bitcoin could be brought down, co-opted, or made irrelevant.

Robleh Ali, former crypto specialist for the Bank of England, on why initial coin offerings are dangerous and how to make them more useful.

“Inclusion happens when people in power use that power to bring people in rather than keep people out.”

Crypto­currency networks are turning out to be far less private than we thought, and forensic investigators are turning that to their advantage.

Despite efforts to boost security, critical parts of America’s voting infrastructure are still vulnerable to cyberattack.

Last September’s official restrictions have unleashed a wave of below-the-radar innovation.

Conservatives have to make the case to conservatives, and a growing number of them are.

People are copying pets to preserve a physical, and spiritual, connection to dead children.

Syrian refugees could regain legal identities that were lost when they fled their homes.

A Canadian hydropower operation put out the welcome mat for bitcoin miners. Shortly thereafter, it was overrun.

A cryptocurrency future sounds liberating. In reality, it would be a disaster for everybody.