Articles by Technology Review from August 2015

The man who took over stewardship of Bitcoin from its mysterious inventor says the currency is in serious trouble.The way things are going, the digital currency Bitcoin will start to malfunction early...

A pair of companies say theyve identified proteins that could lead to a blood test to quickly diagnose concussions.A blood test that could quickly detect a brain injury and measure the damage it has d...

Drones are being used to capture video footage that shows construction progress at the Sacramento Kings new stadium in California.For some construction workers, any thoughts of slacking off could soon...

New software makes Web traffic thats banned in places like China or Iran appear as ordinary Internet use.After the huge chemical explosion in Tianjin, China, this month, two cleanup efforts began. Amo...

An app store that holds your DNA, then sells it to you little by little.The CEO of the worlds leading DNA sequencing company says he knows how to finally get consumers interested in their genomes: by ...

A startup company says it is expanding the language of DNA to create new tools for drug discovery.In the May 15, 2014, edition of the journal Nature, Floyd Romesbergs chemistry lab at San Diegos Scrip...

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SolarCitys massive new manufacturing plant in Buffalo, New York, reflects a booming demand for solar power. Is it sustainable?The rail cars that once carried iron ore around Republic Steels sprawling ...

Technology is now allowing artists to do something theyve aspired to since the stone age: make their paintings move.By and large, visual art has always been defined as static, the abstract artist Fran...

Startups like Doppler Labs are building earbuds that will let you turn down the volume on crying babies and pump up the bass on live music.In a windowless office on a tiny San Francisco side street, N...

Investors see riches in a cryptography-enabled technology called smart contractsbut it could also offer much to criminals.Some of the earliest adopters of the digital currency Bitcoin were criminals, ...

A biotech companys genetically engineered pigs are setting new records in transplant medicine.With the financial aid of a biotechnology executive whose daughter may need a lung transplant, U.S. resear...

A biotech company is genetically engineering pigs so that their organs might work in people.With the financial aid of a biotechnology executive whose daughter may need a lung transplant, U.S. research...

Deep inside its labs, Monsanto is learning how to modify crops by spraying them with RNA rather than tinkering with their genes.The Colorado potato beetle is a voracious eater. The insect can chew thr...

A test drive of the Alfa Romeo 4C reveals what a difference carbon fiber can make in a car.Car parts made of carbon fiber have been used for decades in $1 million-plus European supercars, from the lik...

As the government embarks on an ambitious renewables program, researchers seek technology solutions suited to Indias unique conditions.In central Karnataka state, 120 miles north of Bangalore, the lus...

A reincarnation of one of the oldest ideas in artificial intelligence could finally make it possible to truly converse with our computers. And Facebook has a chance to make it happen first.The first t...

Adaptive, responsive strategies let humans think theyre in charge when working on mundane tasks with robots.Roomba has a new friend. Researchers have developed a robot that can help clean the kitchen....

The idea that particular individuals drive history has long been discredited. Yet it persists in the tech industry, obscuring some of the fundamental factors in innovation.Since Steve Jobss death, in ...

Will artificial intelligence inevitably make warfare worse?An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scien...

A tiny, biologically inspired motion sensor could help small drones avoid collisions as they buzz around.A tiny artificial eye inspired by the vision systems of insects could help small flying drones ...

A tiny, biologically inspired motion sensor could help small drones avoid collisions as they buzz around.A tiny artificial eye inspired by the vision systems of insects could help small flying drones ...