MIT Technology Review

The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.

Fluctuating solar and wind power require lots of energy storage, and lithium-ion batteries seem like the obvious choice—but they are far too expensive to play a major role.

Harvard geoengineering researcher David Keith explains when to feed the trolls and when not to.

Researchers explore genetic “scores” that may predict educational success.

Stanford and Berkeley scientists found that suicides, as well as depressive language on Twitter, rise as temperatures do.

How DNA sequencing and new genetic drugs raise the chance we can cure any inherited disease.

Gene-editing technology is eyed as the next step in the quest to create cats that don’t make you sneeze.

It’s turning carbon credits into crypto-tokens—part of a scheme to create a massive marketplace of novel digital assets.

Its new open-source software will help developers experiment with the machines, including Google’s own super-powerful quantum processor.

The five best ways to detect fake social-media accounts.

By-products include striking short films that speed up and slow down along in response to body signals.

VR technology hasn’t been a hit with consumers, so companies are taking it everywhere from specially built arenas to airports.

Combining software with something the company calls “trusted hardware” will vastly expand what smart contracts can do.

The state leading the clean-energy charge could wind up importing coal power from Wyoming.

The two countries are vying to create an exascale computer that could lead to significant advances in many scientific fields.

A new analysis shows how the cost of securing Bitcoin will constrain its growth.

Martine Rothblatt wants to end transplant shortages with 3-D-printed lungs.

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.