Articles by Technology Review from December 2017

Our staff pick their favorites....

Codecademy, Coursera, edX, and Udacity reveal their most popular courses of 2017 and what they think will trend in 2018....

High-voltage direct-current transmission lines hold the key to slashing greenhouse gases....

Its been a bad year for Americas biggest tech hubthough not because of a lack of innovation....

The diagnostics company Myriad Genetics introduces a DNA test that could reveal a womans risk even if she doesnt have one of the gene variants now associated with the disease....

As many foreign workers are forced out of the country, dont expect smart machines to clean your office or help out on the farm....

Its expected to deliver hormones more effectively than injections or pills....

A new wave of gene-edited crops are dodging regulators, and theyre about to reach stores....

Shirley Ann Jackson worked to help bring about more diversity at MIT, where she was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate. She then applied her mix of vision and pragmatism in the lab, ...

Are North Koreas recent missile testsand President Trumps outspoken response to Kim Jong Unmoving us closer to war? For insight, MIT Technology Review spoke with Vipin Narang, an associate professor o...

The first clinical trials are slated to begin in the U.S. and Europe while others are stalled....

iRobot CEO Colin Angle says mapping data generated by the companys robotic cleaners will finally make our homes intelligent....

Dont worry about supersmart AI eliminating all the jobs. Thats just a distraction from the problems even relatively dumb computers are causing....

The once popular messaging platform goes dark this week, but its legacy of instant communication is here to stay....

A new wave of mobile AR and VR apps is here, and these are the ones you need to check out....

A technology feared for its potential as a bioweapon is attracting interest from farmers as a way to control pests....

A technology feared for its potential as a bioweapon is attracting interest from farmers as a way to control pests....

It is trying. But the cryptocurrency is bigger than any country, even the one where it has been most popular....

Raffi Krikorian, the CTO of the Democratic National Committee, is out to beat hackersand the Republicans....

Congress needs to move fast to limit the damage....

The country is a hub for trading virtual currencies despite a government clampdown and North Korean cyberattacks....

A pioneering photojournalist hopes VR can restore war photographys dramatic power to influence and inform us....

AI tools could help us turn information gleaned from genetic sequencing into life-saving therapies....

The state measures could save hundreds of millions of tons in carbon emissions over the next decade....

Some politicians want to make it legal for individuals and companies in America to pursue digital assailants....

Eric Leuthardt believes that in the near future we will allow doctors to insert electrodes into our brains so we can communicate directly with computers and each other....