Articles by Technology Review from June 2015

New microbes and new techniques show promise for advanced biofuels, but the industry is still years away from real progress.Attempting to chart a path forward for the beleaguered biofuels industry, a ...

In India, bigger is better when it comes to mobile phones, but Apple is lagging behind competitors like Samsung and Xiaomi.Zanish Khan runs a tiny shop in Delhis Basrurkar Market, where Indias middle ...

New diagnostics can find the DNA that drives a tumor, but evidence that they help patients is missing.A year ago I interviewed Deborah Fletcher, a 54-year-old manager at Deloitte who was fighting infl...

These companies are shaping the technology landscape, in everything from massive solar panel factories to human stem cells.Sometimes we hear that technology companies have lost their ambition. Too man...

Americas communications infrastructure is finally getting some crucial upgrades because one company is forcing competition when regulators wont.Its too often said that some event changed everything in...

Automakers and tech companies are racing to bring safer and more useful smartphone-style interfaces to cars. Can any of them go further and reprogram vehicles completely?Where would you like to go? Si...

A companys novel technology could make custom medical devices and car parts not to mention shoes that fit just right.3-D printers can make objects that are impossible or expensive to make with molding...

These companies are shaping the technology landscape, in everything from massive solar panel factories to human stem cells.Sometimes we hear that technology companies have lost their ambition. Too man...

Rapid industrialization and rising standards of living have made China the worlds top emitter of carbon dioxide. Preventing a runaway increase will require the country to keep per capita emissions at ...

Automakers and tech companies are racing to bring safer and more useful smartphone-style interfaces to cars. Can any of them go further and reprogram vehicles completely?Where would you like to go? Si...

A companys novel technology could make custom medical devices and car parts not to mention shoes that fit just right.3-D printers can make objects that are impossible or expensive to make with molding...

Wearable devices are getting more advanced, but can todays technology really measure our health?Until recently, I didnt know a thing about how my roughly 25-minute bike commute across San Franciscoor ...

A new type of flexible electronic device shows promise for long-term brain mapping and could be a more effective way to provide therapeutic stimulation.To understand how the brain worksor doesnt, as t...

Supercharge your immune cells to defeat cancer? Juno Therapeutics believes its treatments can do exactly that.When Milton Wright III got his third cancer diagnosis, he cried until he laughed. He was 2...

The latest in assistive technology is a lightweight glove that helps patients with limited mobility grab and pick up objects.Engineers at Harvard have developed a soft robotic glove that allows people...

Were in the midst of a jobs crisis, and rapid advances in AI and other technologies may be one culprit. How can we get better at sharing the wealth that technology creates?Editors note: This is the th...

Entrepreneurs using couriers and mom-and-pop shops hope to outmaneuver Amazon with ultrafast deliveries in Indias big cities.The heat wave gripping India on a day in late May feels particularly intens...

Occipital wants to interrupt virtual-reality scenes with whats coming at you in real life to prevent surprises and spills.How will you walk around virtual worlds without smacking into actual walls?...

Manufactured materials could lead to breakthroughs in batteries, supercapacitors, and eventually carbon-capture systems.Typically made from coconut shells or wood chips, activated carbon has a variety...

Manufactured materials could lead to breakthroughs in batteries, supercapacitors, and eventually carbon-capture systems.A group of Stanford researchers have come up with a nanoscale designer carbon ma...

A groundbreaking online-spying case unearths details that companies wish you didnt know about how vital information slips away from them.On a wall facing dozens of cubicles at the FBI office in Pittsb...

The falls and fumbles of robots in the DARPA Challenge point to the remaining hurdles for human-robot interfaces.When some of the worlds most advanced rescue robots are foiled by nothing more complex ...

Predicted lithium shortages are leading to novel technologies for recovering the element, now found mostly in salt lakes in South America.Researchers at Japans Atomic Energy Agency have come up with a...

Researchers in the U.K. aim for a new commercial potato that resists many of the worst vulnerabilities of potato crops around the world.Super spuds are coming....

The DARPA challenge, designed to make robots disaster-ready, could have far-reaching technological benefits.Few people ever need to deal with a stricken nuclear reactor, but that skill could turn out ...

The official map of the human genome cant tell you everything about your genes. Does graph theory offer a better way?The Human Genome Project was one of mankinds greatest triumphs. But the official ge...

A new device that precisely mimics blood vessels in the lungs could be a safer way to treat patients with lung failure.A new technology that re-creates important characteristics of the structures in t...

Full coverage of EmTech Digital in San Francisco, June 1-2, 2015. EmTech Digital: Project Loon Head Details How the Balloons Interact Project Loon, Googles plan for Internet via floating balloons, use...

Sentient claims to have assembled machine-learning muscle to rival Google by rounding up idle computers.Recent improvements in speech and image recognition have come as companies such as Google build ...