Past articles by Technology Review from November 2018

02:37 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018

Technology Review Making AI algorithms crazy fast using chips powered by light

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

07:15 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018

Technology Review Climate changes highest cost: Overheated employees too miserable to work

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

01:15 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018

Technology Review Death will be one of the highest economic costs of climate change

Increased mortality from extreme heat could cost the United States an estimated $141 billion a year by 2090....

01:15 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018

Technology Review Cutting emissions could prevent tens of thousands of extreme heat deaths annually

And thats just in the United States....

03:15 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018

Technology Review The Chinese scientist who claims he made CRISPR babies has been suspended without pay

He Jiankui claims he created twin girls who had been edited so they were resistant to HIV. Was that ethical? Or even legal?...

03:15 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018

Technology Review The Chinese scientist who claims he made CRISPR babies is under investigation

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

05:22 pm GMT - Sun, November 25, 2018

Technology Review EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies

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

10:00 am GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018

Technology Review How seaweed could shrink livestocks global carbon hoofprint

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....

10:00 am GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018

Technology Review Seaweed could make cows burp less methane and cut their carbon hoofprint

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....

06:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018

Technology Review An electric plane with no moving parts has made its first flight

The turbineless design uses electroaerodynamic propulsion to fly and could herald the arrival of quieter, lower-emission aircraft....

12:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018

Technology Review How UPS uses AI to outsmart bad weather

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

09:28 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018

Technology Review Online censorship in Saudi Arabia soared after Jamal Khashoggis murder

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

05:05 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018

Technology Review Blockchain smart contracts can finally have a real world impact

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

05:05 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018

Technology Review Blockchain smart contracts are finally good for something in the real world

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

12:00 pm GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018

Technology Review One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future

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

11:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018

Technology Review Ford wants to launch a fleet of thousands of self-driving cars in 2021

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

06:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018

Technology Review The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that ride the wind so they never have to come down

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

12:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018

Technology Review Brazils presidential election could mean billions of tons of additional greenhouse gases

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

09:54 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018

Technology Review United Nations considers a test ban on evolution-warping gene drives

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

12:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018

Technology Review Chinas giant transmission grid could be the key to cutting climate emissions

But are the countrys next-generation power lines a clean-power play or a global power move?...

07:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018

Technology Review A robot scientist will dream up new materials to advance computing and fight pollution

Kebotix is using AI and robotics to brainstormand then testnovel compounds....

02:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018

Technology Review Google has enlisted NASA to help it prove quantum supremacy within months

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

02:23 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018

Technology Review Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin says his creation cant succeed unless he takes a step back

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

08:00 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018

Technology Review I hired a video-game coach to give me the edge in Fortnite

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

08:00 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018

Technology Review You can now hire a video game coach to turn you into a Fortnite expert

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

03:07 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018

Technology Review The internet is taking over a persons life for Halloween. And you can be a part of it.

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

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