Articles by Technology Review from June 2017

Our editors pick the 50 companies that best combine innovative technology with an effective business model....

A few companies that master digital technologies are capturing huge chunks of the economy. Does this explain the persistence of slow growth?...

As part of its shift toward high-tech businesses, the 125-year-old company is threading artificial intelligence throughout its operations, starting with its scientists....

Neuroscientist Kay Tye tackles the physical basis of emotions and behavior....

Superstar companies are dominating the economy by exploiting a growing gap in digital competencies....

A British company bets a hand-held analyzer will change how we look at DNA....

Using his background in chemistry, CEO Joseph DeSimone has taken a whole new approach to advanced manufacturing, enabling Carbon to print materials with a broad range of useful properties....

IBM overhyped its Watson machine-learning system, but the company still could have the best access to the kind of data needed to make medicine much smarter....

Ya-Qin Zhang expects investments in artificial intelligence and other technologies to help turn his company into a global leader....

Alphabet thinks it can wrest the cloud computing market away from Amazon by helping companies make use of machine learning with a tool called TensorFlow....

A product idea hatched at MIT evolves into biodegradable menstrual padsand a win for gender equity....

Melonee Wises startup Fetch Robotics employs about 50 people and more than 125 robots. She intends to create many more jobs for both....

The giant e-commerce platform Alibaba and its charismatic founder, Jack Ma, have a plan to add a million U.S. jobs by enticing American companies to sell to China....

The Peoples Bank of China has developed a digital currency thats designed to scale to the number of transactions made every day across the country....

Its new CEO will inherit many problems, but a business plan based on the elusive dream of driverless cars is the largest....

Whether hes blocking a 300-pound defensive lineman or hitting the math books, this doctoral candidate just wont quit....

Whether hes blocking a 300-pound defensive lineman or hitting the math books, this doctoral candidate just wont quit....

Tech startups helped turn a handful of metro areas into megastars. Now theyre tearing those cities apart....

Nearly two dozen researchers critique a proposal for wind, solar, and water power gaining traction in policy circles....

Nearly two dozen researchers critique a proposal for wind, solar, and water power gaining traction in policy circles....

Nearly two dozen researchers critique a proposal for wind, solar, and water power gaining traction in policy circles....

New technologies for storing power from wind and solar farms will be key to a clean-energy future. But Aquion Energys recent bankruptcy shows the market challenge of making that happen....

Wheelys tests a 24-hour store run entirely by technology....

Chinese parents can now decode the genomes of their healthy newborns, revealing disease risks as well as the likelihood of physical traits like male-pattern baldness....

VR can be the basis of a new communications industry if the technology becomes less insular and isolating....

A startup called Darwin Life says it will use a controversial fertility technique to help forty-somethings get pregnant....

A startup called Darwin Life says it will use a controversial fertility technique to help forty-somethings get pregnant for $100,000....

Courts, banks, and other institutions are using automated data analysis systems to make decisions about your life. Lets not leave it up to the algorithm makers to decide whether theyre doing it approp...

A community of San Diego retirees is using the personal-assistant gadget to listen to audiobooks, keep current with family news, and control home appliances....

The CEO of Apple spent a day at MIT learning about research into artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies....

In Rwanda, an early commercial test of unmanned aerial vehicles is delivering urgently needed medical supplies....

In Rwanda, an early commercial test of unmanned aerial vehicles cuts a medical facilitys time to procure blood from four hours to 15 minutes....

The White Houses deep proposed cuts to energy R&D could cede leadership to China, and derail the international Mission Innovation partnership....

Loxo Oncology is developing a so-called tumor agnostic drug that requires expensive genetic testing often not covered by insurance....

Seventy percent of cancers caught early are curable. Can a blood test find them?...

Verizon has devised a system of cameras, sensors, and algorithms that can track the number of times cars fail to yield to bicyclists and pedestrians at a particular intersection....

A pending cap-and-trade bill would earmark hundreds of millions of dollars for clean energy research, as the White House takes aim at federal funding....

The genetic testing company wants customers to do an experiment to help uncover genetic links to pain....