Articles by Technology Review from August 2017

If it works as expected, the Net Power natural gas demonstration plant will capture carbon at nearly no cost....

A new crop of venture capitalists is specifically backing companies that have international founders....

The idea that American workers are being left in the dust because they lack technological savvy does not stand up to scrutiny. Our focus should be on coordination and communication between workers and...

The retail giant is taking a characteristically algorithmic approach to fashion....

The disease may be among the first to be treated with the novel gene-editing tool....

Out-of-work truckers armed with adversarial machine learning could dazzle autonomous vehicles into crashing....

How an unusual medical case in the 1990s provided a clue for how to treat a fatal muscle disease....

Our annual list of the young dreamers, tinkerers, and innovators that are creating technologys future....

Creating the breakthroughs that will make everything from AI to solar power to heart valves more practical and essential....

Theyre bringing fresh and unexpected solutions to areas ranging from cancer treatment to Internet security to self-driving cars....

Meet the people who are taking innovations like CRISPR and flexible electronics and turning them into businesses....

What will it do to kids to have digital butlers they can boss around?...

Finding the technology solutions that can directly improve, and sometimes save, peoples lives....

PillPacks founders aim to simplify medication management with a drug delivery infrastructure built to coordinate care....

These innovators arent satisfied with the status quotheyre looking to make things better in a dramatic way....

Denied more lab space for her pioneering research, Nancy Hopkins whipped out her tape measure. What she found sparked a movement to address gender bias in science....

We are beset byand immersed inapps and devices that are quietly reducing the amount of meaningful interaction we have with each other....

By reworking the basic metabolism of crops, plant scientists hope to forestall devastating food shortages....

Though the messaging app dominates in China, few Americans have even heard of it....

Malware can be encoded into a gene and used to take over a computer program....

Voice-based AI devices arent just jukeboxes with attitude. They could become the primary way we interact with our machines....

A China Titans affiliate bought the bankrupt storage startup Aquion and plans to sell its batteries directly to big grid operators....

Scientists are trying to manufacture eggs and sperm in the laboratory. Will it end reproduction as we know it?...

The sonar-equipped Sunu Band buzzes harder the closer an object is....

Middle Eastern startups are overcoming cultural and other barriers to tap into a growing local taste for technology, from Bitcoin wallets to digital publishing....

Starting with just a digital file, scientists manufactured the common flu virus....

Starting with just a digital file, scientists manufactured the common flu virus....

Its hard to teach machines to use language. Thats why they should teach themselves instead....

Their goal is to replace addictive painkillers and help people detox from opioids....