Articles by Technology Review from November 2021

The news: Just five days ago, South African scientists informed the World Health Organization that they’d identified a new covid-19 variant. The situation has escalated rapidly since then. The v...

When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August, Mohammad Yasin had to make some difficult decisions very quickly. As the country reeled from the shock of the insurgent takeover, the 21-year-oldwhose n...

In August 2022, a NASA probe called Psyche will set out to explore a giant metallic asteroid called Psyche 16, to help scientists learn more about how planets form. ...

Thanks to advancements in speech and natural language processing, there is hope that one day you may be able to ask your virtual assistant what the best salad ingredients are. Currently, it is possibl...

Nations are poised to begin building an international carbon market, after finally adopting the relevant rules at the UN climate conference in Glasgow earlier this month. Under the COP26 agreement, co...

Defining what is, or isnt artificial intelligence can be tricky (or tough). So much so, even the experts get it wrong sometimes. Thats why MIT Technology Reviews Senior AI Editor Karen Hao created a f...

Defining what is, or isnt artificial intelligence can be tricky (or tough). So much so, even the experts get it wrong sometimes. Thats why MIT Technology Reviews Senior AI Editor Karen Hao created a f...

In July, accusations emerged that spyware from NSO Group had targeted French president Emmanuel Macron, causing a major controversy. The company denied the claimspart of a string of allegations about ...

Hackers around the globe are smart: they know that it isnt just good code that helps them break into systems; its also about understandingand preying uponhuman behavior. The threat to businesses in th...

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Myanmar, March 2021. A month after the fall of the democratic government. In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement on Facebook were from legitimate media, according to da...

Michael Worobey hasnt always been certain about where covid originated. During the pandemic, the University of Arizona professor has studied how the virus changes over time, and was among a group of 1...

From cars to planes, the future of transportation is already hereand is changing rapidly. Software engineering is increasingly central to both the development and maintenance of all kinds of vehicles....

Our 35 Innovators Under 35 competition for 2022 is now open for nominations. You can nominate great candidates from now until 10 p.m. EST on January 24, 2022. Weve been publishing a list of young inno...

At long last, physicists from Harvard and MIT have found the killer application for quantum computing: a Mario Bros. GIF made from qubits. The qubits (quantum bits) can also be arranged in a Space Inv...

The next wave of aerospace is just around the corner, and a lot of that innovation is happening thanks to new, faster methods of development. What’s happening now is that companies are trying to...

Data is growing at a meteoric rate. In fact, the total amount of data generated by 2025 is set to accelerate exponentially to 175 zettabytes.1 And over the next two years, enterprise data is expected ...

In 2018, when Google employees found out about their companys involvement in Project Maven, a controversial US military effort to develop AI to analyze surveillance video, they werent happy. Thousands...

In Facebooks vision of the metaverse, we will all interact in a mashup of the digital and physical worlds. Digital representations of ourselves will eat, talk, date, shop, and more. Thats the picture ...

Germanys coronavirus cases have reached their highest levels since the early days of the pandemic, with warnings that covid is spreading dramatically and requires a quick and unified response. At the ...

Data is growing at a meteoric rate. In fact, the total amount of data generated by 2025 is set to accelerate exponentially to 175 zettabytes.1 And over the next two years, enterprise data is expected ...

Companies across all industries are faced with the urgent need to transform the way they do business, including financial services, but changes abound with governance, security, and culture. A shift i...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. This white paper discusses how blockchain technology can transform public re...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Jorge Balestra, global director of Advanced Analytics, Kraft Heinz, goes beh...

The draining 996 work schedulenamed for the expectation that employees work 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a weekhas persisted in Chinese companies for years despite ongoing public outcry. ...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. MACH-ready commerce vendors provide benefits of flexibility and scalability ...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Read this viewpoint to understand how investment in digital technologies can...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. This white paper discusses how blockchain technology can transform public re...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Alan Feeley, CIO of Siemens Gamesa, explains how the producer of clean energ...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Enterprises looking to accelerate their cloud journeys need to ensure the CI...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. A new breed of ransomware attacks targeting even the cloud and SaaS data, is...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Estimating the long-term cost of data breaches to brands and businesses for ...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Estimating the long-term cost of data breaches to brands and businesses toda...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Carlos Caloi Santos, vice president, Corporate Services and chief informatio...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Petteri Naulap, CIO & SVP, ICT, and Digitalization for Posti Group, a Fi...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Rather than getting into the public versus private debate, enterprises shoul...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Andy Cooper, senior vice president of Infrastructure and Cloud Services at A...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Cloud is no longer about saving time and money. New research from Infosys sh...

Randhir Gandhi, CEO of SPS, and Jay Nair, senior vice president of Financial Services at Infosys, explain how SPS digitally transformed its mortgage servicing value chain and improved customer experie...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. A combination of cloud computing, AI, and deep data analytics is turning dec...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. In the next several years, the cloud will move the needle for AI from being ...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to cloud clarity.” We hope you enjoy this article. Michael Tonge, director of partnerships, hospitality, and ticketing, French ...

The Asia Pacific region has enjoyed decades of economic growthfrom the post-Second World War rise of Japan, to the rapid industrialization of the Four Asian Tigers (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and...

The Asia Pacific region has enjoyed decades of economic growthfrom the post-Second World War rise of Japan, to the rapid industrialization of the Four Asian Tigers (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and...

Facebook has been under intense fire following revelations that the social media giants leadership repeatedly prioritized profits over safety. Now, a second whistleblower is accusing the company of tu...

E. coli thrives in our guts, sometimes to unfortunate effect, and it facilitates scientific advancesin DNA, biofuels, and Pfizers covid vaccine, to name but a few. Now this multitalented bacterium has...

In the spring of 2021, MIT Technology Review announced a fellowship focused on exploring the different ways in which technology and data were being used to address issues of inequality during the pand...

The increasing overlap between the worlds arms trade and the secretive surveillance industry risks damaging US national security and will create the potential for even more abuse unless more accountab...

Every 10 years, US astronomers and astrophysicists release a new report to guide the next decade of astronomy and astrophysics research. Today the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medi...

Every 10 years, US astronomers and astrophysicists release a new report to guide the next decade of astronomy and astrophysics research. Today the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medi...

India has officially joined the net-zero pledge club, and its 2070 target presents a reasonable, if challenging, timeline for the country. The commitment was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...

While they wrestle with the immediate danger posed by hackers today, US government officials are preparing for another, longer-term threat: attackers who are collecting sensitive, encrypted data now i...

While they wrestle with the immediate danger posed by hackers today, US government officials are preparing for another, longer-term threat: attackers who are collecting sensitive, encrypted data now i...

NASA is exploring a concept for a new fleet of mini-rovers that can work together to solve problems and make decisions as a unit. If one fails or gets stuck somewhere, the others could carry on withou...

This is the second article in a series of three. The first focused on the importance of making businesses more future-ready and how to work through common obstacles on the path to digitization. We als...

Cloud is ubiquitous: according to Gartner, spending on public cloud services is predicted to reach $396 billion in 2021 and grow 21.7% to $482 billion in 2022. And by 2026, Gartner predicts public clo...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML) are key technologies that help organizations develop new ways to increase sales, reduce costs, streamline business processes, and understand th...