Articles by Technology Review from August 2018

The state is on the verge of passing a rule requiring 100 percent of its electricity to come from carbon-free sources....

A technique called Mendelian randomization could be the revolutionary tool drug companies have been waiting for....

Freelance cybersleuths can help companies find flaws in their code. But the bug hunters could fall afoul of anti-hacking laws....

Maps of Twitter activity show how political polarization manifests online and why divides are so hard to bridge....

Long before the internet, hate speech flourished in echo chambers of a different kind....

The AI advances that brought you Alexa are teaching propaganda how to talk....

21st-century digital evangelists had a lot in common with early Christians and Russian revolutionaries....

The first Obama campaign kicked off a technological revolution in electioneering. Where is it going next?...

vTaiwan is a promising experiment in participatory governance. But politics is blocking it from getting greater traction....

Heres how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance....

Science fiction: What happens when fake news is everywhere?...

Inside the race to catch the worryingly real fakes that can be made using artificial intelligence....

These experts say they can divine political preferences you cant express from signals you dont know youre producing....

Cyberattacks on the 2016 US election caused states to bolster the defenses of their voting systems. It hasnt been enough, says the University of Michigans Alex Halderman....

Increased use of machine learning and cloud services could make the financial world more vulnerable....

To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves....

FiscalNote takes the intuition out of politics. Does it take the democracy out, too?...

Machine learning and artificial intelligence can help guard against cyberattacks, but hackers can foil security algorithms by targeting the data they train on and the warning flags they look for....

The success shows that advances in artificial intelligence arent the sole domain of elite programmers....

Its too dangerous to conduct elections over the internet, they say, and West Virginias new plan to put votes on a blockchain doesnt fix that....

Can we safely fix the DNA of human embryos in a lab dish?...

Its taken years of work and billions of dollars in venture funding to build a working mixed-reality headset for developers. Now what?...

Coursera is unveiling a new machine learning tool to show companies what skills their employees are acquiring from its classes and their level of expertise....

Fake video clips made with artificial intelligence can also be spotted using AIbut this may be the beginning of an arms race....

These robotic limbs could someday help people work together when theyre far apart....

Augur lets people bet on events and pays whoever gets it rightso of course theyre wagering on the deaths of Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos....

Augur lets people bet on events and pays whoever gets it rightso of course theyre wagering on the deaths of Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos....

Augur lets people bet on events and pays whoever gets it rightso of course theyre wagering on the deaths of Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos....