Articles by Technology Review from December 2018

Gene information on millions of people is revolutionizing how we predict disease, catch criminals, and find new drugs....

Last year a string of controversies revealed a darker (and dumber) side to artificial intelligence....

From gene-edited babies to guaranteed-fatal brain uploads, it was a bumper year for technology misfires and misuses....

A year ago, Bitcoin and its brethren were headed to the moon. These days theyre much more grounded....

Every one of us will have a moment when global warming gets personal....

Multibillion-dollar companies like Alibaba and Tencent have thrived thanks to a government that provided incentives but otherwise let them grow. Can they count on that in the future?...

And in the next few years it plans to launch the worlds biggest space telescope, the worlds heaviest rocket, and a space station to rival the ISS....

Jian-Wei Pan, Chinas father of quantum, is masterminding its drive for global leadership in technologies that could change entire industries....

An interview with Yasheng Huang, MIT professor and expert on entrepreneurship in China....

Three generations of personal and political history show the tensions between the Communist Partys need for knowledge and its need for ideological control....

Payment apps like Alipay and WeChat transformed daily life in China. The West wont see a similar payments revolutionand that might even be a good thing....

It used to be that while Google wanted China, China really needed Google. Not any more....

Shenzhen flooded the world with cheap gadgets. Can it now become what Silicon Valley never dida global hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing?...

The next generation of wireless technology promises much faster speeds while using less power. No wonder Beijing is throwing everything at getting there first....

China was no good at cars. Then EVs came along....

China was no good at cars. Then EVs came along....

24M is reducing manufacturing costs by stripping out extraneous materials and just got $22 million to begin building its first commercial factory....

Technology is making people unhinged and violent. Can an algorithm stop them?...

The country has struggled for decades to build a competitive semiconductor industry. In making specialized AI chips, though, its got a head start....

The blockchain system has daunting technical problems to fix. But first, its disciples need to figure out how to govern themselves....

Once nuclears strongest booster, China is growing wary about its cost and safety....

In 2015, an unknown Chinese scientist edited the DNA of human embryos. It was a step on an inexorable path to designer babies....

7 questions for Andrew Yang, the 2020 US presidential candidate pushing for basic income....

The biggest fear is that China could exploit the telecom giants gear to wreak havoc in a crisis....

The research institute AINow has identified facial recognition as a key challenge for society and policymakersbut is it too late?...

The coming rise in private spaceflight is prompting growth in space companies that give citizen astronauts the know-how they need to fly....

It navigates interruptions and other tricky features of human conversation to field millions of requests a day....

Some US experts think it could take at least 20 years to get quantum-proof encryption widely deployed....

Smartphones that are used to track our faces and voices could also help lower the barrier to mental-health diagnosis and treatment....

Creating a lifelike digital scene normally requires a skill, creativity, and patience. Now we can just offload the work to an AI algorithm....

Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are fueling creativityand controversy. Heres how they work....

The maker community helped me create everything from my bouquet to my cake toppersand gave me an insight into the technologys possibilities....