Articles by Technology Review from January 2016

People who worry that were on course to invent dangerously intelligent machines are misunderstanding the state of computer science.Yoshua Bengio leads one of the worlds preminent research groups devel...

A massive genetic study has sketched out a molecular link between schizophrenia and how the brain is shaped in adolescence.Winning a rare insight into the cause of schizophrenia and possible ways to t...

Google achieves one of the long-standing grand challenges of AI by building a computer that can beat expert players at the board game Go.Google has taken a brilliant and unexpected step toward buildin...

A new database will gauge progress in artificial intelligence, as computers try to grasp whats going on in scenes shown in photographs.A few years ago, a breakthrough in machine learning suddenly enab...

They spin in their cages and dont interact. The scientists who created autistic monkeys say theyll now try to cure them.Scientists in China say they used genetic engineering to create monkeys with a v...

We havent stopped huge breaches. The focus now is on resilience, with smarter ways to detect attacks and faster ways to respond to them.In November 2014, an especially chilling cyberattack shook the c...

We havent stopped huge breaches. The focus now is on resilience, with smarter ways to detect attacks and faster ways to respond to them.In November 2014, an especially chilling cyberattack shook the c...

An expert in U.S. national cybersecurity research and policy says the next generation of technology must have security built in from the very start.In an age of continuing electronic breaches and risi...

Software with security flaws, and a lack of historical data on risks, have made the Internet of things tough to insure.Insuring the security of connected products is hard for a simple reason: they are...

The brains that come through Ann McKees lab dont lie. But they are only the beginning of the story about head trauma and its role in neurodegenerative disease.The brain on the table once belonged to a...

The brains that come through Ann McKees lab dont lie. But they are only the beginning of the story about head trauma and its role in neurodegenerative disease....

Car companies from Ford to BMW take a page from Silicon Valleys playbook to offer transportation services, in some cases without a real business model in mind.The Ford Motor Company unveiled its new F...

A startup uses encryption and fingerprint authentication to compare medical records across providersand aims to make them easier to move, too.For the over 40 million people served by the more than 300...

A Microsoft Research study uses augmented reality to project a life-size person into a room with you, perching them in an empty seat.Nothing beats talking to another person face-to-face, but a group o...

A Microsoft Research study uses augmented reality to project a life-size person into a room with you, perched in an empty seat.Nothing beats talking to another person face-to-face, but a group of rese...

Relatively new discoveries about of the role of the microbiome in human health have sparked a race to develop new therapies based on microbes.Scientific discoveries in recent years suggest that some s...

A wearable device promises to help steady hand tremors by using an old technologygyroscopes.When he was a 24-year-old medical student living in London, Faii Ong was assigned to care for a 103-year-old...

A joint venture between Bayer and CRISPR Therapeutics is the latest effort to make CRISPR drugs that could target and modify cells inside the body.Can the powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR help cure d...

The disorder known as Trisomy 21 is untreatable. Or is it? Some families think an antidepressant could help.When Southwest Airlines pilot Paul Watson lands in a new city, he often strikes out to visit...

The DNA sequencing giant will launch a new company, Grail, to develop blood tests to detect cancer.The worlds largest DNA sequencing company says it will form a new company to develop blood tests that...

Climate change agreements rest on negative emissions technologies that may be unachievable.While many scientists and climate change activists hailed Decembers Paris agreement as a historic step forwar...

Mark Fields, the head of Ford, says cars that can drive themselves may need to learn some more human traits.Ford didnt announce a deal with Google to develop self-driving cars at CES this week, as som...

A radical new approach to generating human organs is to grow them inside pigs or sheep.Braving a funding ban put in place by Americas top health agency, some U.S. research centers are moving ahead wit...

Nevadas reversal of net metering fees for solar owners marks a dramatic turn in the fight over solar policies.Solar power installer SolarCity, the countrys largest provider of rooftop panels, has exit...

Instead of programming drones to know what to do in every single scenario, a Stanford lab is giving them the intelligence to understand their surroundings.If the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration a...

Chinese robots, delivery drones, and machines that teach each other could be big trends in 2016.Will this year mark the first drone delivery, or the first time you encounter a robot at work or in your...

They caught on fire, threatened the planet, or were simply less impressive than they seemed. Meet the years worst technologies.Welcome to MIT Technology Reviews second annual list of top tech flops. W...