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03:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 29, 2021
Technology Review DeepMinds AI predicts almost exactly when and where its going to rain
First protein folding, now weather forecasting: London-based AI firm DeepMind is continuing its run applying deep learning to hard science problems. Working with the Met Office, the UKs national ...
12:53 pm GMT - Wed, September 29, 2021
Technology Review Podcast: How games teach AI to learn for itself
From chess to Jeopardy to e-sports, AI is increasingly beating humans at their own games. But that was never the ultimate goal. In this episode we dig into the symbiotic relationship between games and...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, September 29, 2021
Technology Review Space policy is finally moving into the 21st century
Theres never been more happening in space than there is today. Commercial activity has exploded over the past five years as private space companies have launched roc...
09:30 am GMT - Tue, September 28, 2021
Technology Review The pandemic is testing the limits of face recognition
At first glance, JB, an artist based in Los Angeles, perhaps doesnt look much like the picture on their drivers license. For one thing, the ID photo is from a few years ago. Hair that was once long an...
08:10 pm GMT - Mon, September 27, 2021
Technology Review Pulling methane out of the atmosphere could slow global warmingif we can figure out how to do it
Pulling methane out of the atmosphere has the potential to help slow global warming in the next few decadesbut researchers are still trying to figure out if its really feasible. Methane is a powerful ...
10:02 am GMT - Mon, September 27, 2021
Technology Review The pandemic problems that boosters wont solve
The US booster program is about to get underway, after the CDC backed additional shots for a large swathe of the American public. The agency now recommends that people aged 65 years and older, adults ...
10:08 am GMT - Fri, September 24, 2021
Technology Review The US is about to kickstart its controversial covid booster campaign
The news: The White House is set to kick off its booster shot campaign today, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s director Dr Rochelle Walensky overruled her own agency’...
10:08 am GMT - Fri, September 24, 2021
Technology Review The US is about to kick-start its controversial covid booster campaign
The news: The White House is set to kick off its booster shot campaign today, after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky overruled her own agencys advisors in favor of...
10:00 am GMT - Thu, September 23, 2021
Technology Review 2021 has broken the record for zero-day hacking attacks
A zero-day exploita way to launch a cyberattack via a previously unknown vulnerabilityis just about the most valuable thing a hacker can possess. These exploits can carry price tags north of $1 millio...
04:41 pm GMT - Tue, September 21, 2021
Technology Review US unfairly targeting Chinese over industrial spying, says report
For years, civil rights groups have accused the US Department of Justice of racial profiling against scientists of Chinese descent. Today, a new report provides data that may quantify some of their cl...
04:41 pm GMT - Tue, September 21, 2021
Technology Review The US is unfairly targeting Chinese scientists over industrial spying, says report
For years, civil rights groups have accused the US Department of Justice of racial profiling against scientists of Chinese descent. Today, a new report provides data that may quantify some of their cl...
03:50 pm GMT - Tue, September 21, 2021
Technology Review How five US schools reopened without sparking a covid outbreak
A version of this story was originally published at the COVID-19 Data Dispatch. Its impossible to overstate how controversial school reopening has become in the US this past year. After a spring of un...
03:50 pm GMT - Tue, September 21, 2021
Technology Review How these US schools reopened without sparking a covid outbreak
A version of this story was originally published at the COVID-19 Data Dispatch. Its impossible to overstate how controversial school reopening has become in the US this past year. After a spring of un...
01:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 21, 2021
Technology Review Securing the energy revolution and IoT future
In early 2021, Americans living on the East Coast got a sharp lesson on the growing importance of cybersecurity in the energy industry. A ransomware attack hit the company that operates the Colonial P...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 20, 2021
Technology Review How Amazon Ring uses domestic violence to market doorbell cameras
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, where Eileen Guo is an Ida B. Wells Fellow, and is being co-published by MIT Technology Review and Consumer Reports. A few hours befo...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, September 20, 2021
Technology Review This AI could predict 10 years of scientific prioritiesif we let it
Every 10 years, US astronomers have to make some tough decisions. Outlined in a plan called the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, a set of studies produced by ...
09:00 am GMT - Sun, September 19, 2021
Technology Review Companies hoping to grow carbon-sucking kelp may be rushing ahead of the science
In late January, Elon Musk tweeted that he planned to give $100 million to promising carbon removal technologies, stirring the hopes of researchers and entrepreneurs. A few weeks later, Arin Crumley, ...
01:00 am GMT - Fri, September 17, 2021
Technology Review Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows
In the run up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebooks most popular pages for Christian and Black American content were being run by Eastern European troll farms. These...
08:27 pm GMT - Wed, September 15, 2021
Technology Review This US company sold iPhone hacking tools to UAE spies
When the United Arab Emirates paid over $1.3 million for a powerful and stealthy iPhone hacking tool in 2016, the monarchys spiesand the American mercenary hackers they hiredput it to immediate use. T...
09:30 am GMT - Wed, September 15, 2021
Technology Review Inspiration4: Why SpaceXs first all-private mission is a big deal
When 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, it didnt feel like a stretch to dream of lounging in a space hotel, sipping a martini while watching Earth drift by. This vision got a b...
09:30 am GMT - Wed, September 15, 2021
Technology Review Activists are helping Texans get access to abortion pills online
At the end of August, KT Volkova got an abortion in central Texas, where she lives. She was nearly six weeks pregnant.  Time was of the essence, she says. Just a few days later, on September 1, S...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, September 15, 2021
Technology Review Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces
Last week Facebook released its new $299 Ray-Ban Stories glasses. Wearers can use them to record and share images and short videos, listen to music, and take calls. The people who buy these glasses wi...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 14, 2021
Technology Review How AI simplifies data management for drug discovery
Calithera Biosciences is a small, Northern California immunotherapy company with a pipeline of drugs in various stages of premarket development for cancer and cystic fibrosis. Like any manufacturer cr...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, September 13, 2021
Technology Review Pandemic tech left out public health experts. Heres why that needs to change.
Exposure notification apps were developed at the start of the pandemic, as technologists raced to help slow the spread of covid. The most common system was developed jointly by Google and Apple, and d...
09:00 am GMT - Mon, September 13, 2021
Technology Review A horrifying new AI app swaps women into porn videos with a click
The website is eye-catching for its simplicity. Against a white backdrop, a giant blue button invites visitors to upload a picture of a face. Below the button, four AI-generated faces allow you to tes...
11:27 am GMT - Fri, September 10, 2021
Technology Review Theres a gig worker-sized hole in Bidens vaccine mandate plan
The news: President Joe Biden has signed an executive order which will require millions of American workers to get vaccinated against covid-19. The order mandates all companies with more than 100 work...
11:27 am GMT - Fri, September 10, 2021
Technology Review Theres a gig-worker-sized hole in Bidens vaccine mandate plan
The news: President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that will require millions of American workers to get vaccinated against covid-19. The order mandates all companies with more than 100 worke...
06:20 pm GMT - Thu, September 9, 2021
Technology Review A customer-centric approach is key in a post-pandemic world
Quoting John Lennon, Bill Kanarick describes the tectonic industry shifts brought on by the pandemic: There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen. After months of...
12:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 9, 2021
Technology Review NASA is going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid. Things might get chaotic.
The dinosaurs didnt have a space program, so when an asteroid headed toward Earth with their name on it 65 million years ago, they had no warning and no way to defend themselves. We know how that turn...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, September 9, 2021
Technology Review Why you should be more concerned about internet shutdowns
Deliberate internet shutdowns enacted by governments around the world are increasing in frequency and sophistication, according to a recent report. The study, published by Googles Jigsaw project with ...
04:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 8, 2021
Technology Review Netflixs SpaceX docuseries misses the mark on Inspiration4
The new Netflix docuseries about SpaceXs Inspiration4 mission can’t help but feel unfinished, precisely because the mission will not even launch until September 15 (from Kennedy Space Center in ...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 8, 2021
Technology Review Lithium-ion batteries just made a big leap in a tiny product
A materials company in Alameda, California, has spent the last decade working to boost the energy stored in lithium-ion batteries, an advance that could enable smaller gadgets and electric vehicles wi...
03:23 pm GMT - Wed, September 8, 2021
Technology Review What happens when your prescription drug becomes the center of covid misinformation
By the time Joe Rogan mentioned ivermectin as one ingredient in an experimental cocktail he was taking to treat his covid infection, the drug had already become a meme. In the days and weeks leading u...
01:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 8, 2021
Technology Review Game changer: The first Olympic games in the cloud
Hosted at an unprecedented time due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Summer Olympics (branded as Tokyo 2020, held in 2021, and officially called Games of the XXXII Olympiad) will be remembered fo...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 8, 2021
Technology Review IT security starts with knowing your assets: Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
Cyberattacks know no geographical boundaries. In the past two years alone, the University Hospital Brno in the Czech Republic suffered a cyberattack during the covid-19 pandemic, forcing the medical f...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 8, 2021
Technology Review IT security starts with knowing your assets: Asia-Pacific
On the best of days, securing the networks, devices, and data of NTUC Enterprise is no easy task. The Singapore-based cooperative consists of nine business units, from food services to insurance, and ...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 8, 2021
Technology Review A game changer in IT security
The key to a successful cybersecurity strategy is knowing what you need to protect. Heres the proof: half of companies surveyed by MIT Technology Review Insights and Palo Alto Networks have experience...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, September 8, 2021
Technology Review Meetings suck. Can we make them more fun?
Three weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg was chatting with host Gayle King on the television show CBS This Morning. Instead of sitting in a studio or using a videoconferencing app, however, the two of them we...
10:00 am GMT - Mon, September 6, 2021
Technology Review Who is Starlink really for?
Alan Woodward lives out in the countryside, in rural southwest England. He jokes there are more four-legged than two-legged beings in the neighborhood. Hes a professor of computer science at the Unive...
05:18 pm GMT - Sat, September 4, 2021
Technology Review Meet Altos Labs, Silicon Valleys latest wild bet on living forever
Last October, a large group of scientists made their way to Yuri Milners super-mansion in the Los Altos Hills above Palo Alto. They were tested for covid-19 and wore masks as they assembled in theater...
04:21 pm GMT - Fri, September 3, 2021
Technology Review How Ida dodged NYCs flood defenses
Floods killed at least two dozen people as Hurricane Ida swept through New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania on the night of September 1. This devastation is on top of the 13 who died and the million...
08:08 pm GMT - Thu, September 2, 2021
Technology Review NASAs Perseverance rover finally scooped up a piece of Mars
NASAs Perseverance rover successfully gathered a bit of rock and soil from Mars on Wednesday, which marks the first time a sample has ever been recovered on the Red Planet. What happened: The rover dr...
08:02 pm GMT - Tue, August 31, 2021
Technology Review How to keep the power on during hurricanes and heat waves and fires and
Global warming is underscoring the point, again and again and again, that the infrastructure in the US was built for the climate conditions of the past. Hurricane Ida, turbocharged by unusually warm w...
06:01 pm GMT - Tue, August 31, 2021
Technology Review Whats happening with covid vaccine apps in the US
A year ago, vaccines to tackle the covid pandemic still seemed like a far-off idea. Today, though, doses have been delivered to almost 40% of the worlds peopleand some are being asked to prove theyre ...