Articles by Technology Review from January 2022

OpenAI has built a new version of GPT-3, its game-changing language model, that it says does away with some of the most toxic issues that plagued its predecessor. The San Francisco-based lab...

Lisa Levy is a housing case manager at Columbus House in New Haven, Connecticut, where she oversees residents in a complex of 25 apartments. Each of her clients has a dual diagnosis of severe mental i...

Last month, I attended the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans, where 26,000 geoscientists convened in person and virtually to share the latest Earth and climate science. Maybe a hundred...

Moving to the cloud is all the rage. According to an IDC Survey Spotlight, Experience in Migrating Databases to the Cloud, 63% of enterprises are actively migrating their databases to the cloud, and a...

For organizations in todays complex business environment, data is like wateressential for survival. They need to process, analyze, and act on data to drive business growthto predict future trends, ide...

Russia has sent more than 100,000 soldiers to the nation’s border with Ukraine, threatening a war unlike anything Europe has seen in decades. Though there hasnt been any shooting yet, cyber oper...

If you can recognize a dog by sight, then you can probably recognize a dog when it is described to you in words. Not so for todays artificial intelligence. Deep neural networks have become very good a...

The US Justice Department has filed a motion to dismiss all charges against MIT mechanical engineering professor and nanotechnologist Gang Chen, nearly one year to the day after he was indicted on cha...

The internet can feel like a bottomless pit of the worst aspects of humanity. So far, theres little indication that the metaversean envisioned virtual digital world where we work, play, and livewill b...

Artificial intelligence helps build physical infrastructure like modular housing, skyscrapers, and factory floors. many problems that we wrestle with in all forms of engineering and design are very, v...

Hunga TongaHunga Haapai, an underwater volcano off the coast of Tonga, has erupted several times in the last 13 years, but the most recent, on January 15, was likely its most destructive. The blast ha...

Biologists at several startups are applying the latest advances in genetic engineering to the age-old problem of baldness, by creating new hair-forming cells that could restore a persons ability to gr...

On Friday, federal prosecutors recommended that the US Department of Justice dismiss all three charges against MIT nanotechnology professor Gang Chen, ending a two-year ordeal stemming from accusation...

On Friday, federal prosecutors recommended that the US Department of Justice dismiss all three charges against MIT nanotechnology professor Gang Chen, ending a two-year ordeal stemming from accusation...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Debbie Taylor, chief information officer at NBN Australia, discusses how NBN is bridging the digital divide in Aus...

The past two years of pandemic-related challenges have accelerated the adoption of cloud across industry at an unprecedented rate. This increased investment in cloud can serve to reinvigorate sustaina...

In December, researchers reported that huge and growing cracks have formed in the eastern ice shelf of the Thwaites Glacier, a Florida-size mass of ice that stretches 75 miles across western Antarctic...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Infosys in partnership with HFS Research conducted a study to understand how enterprises are adopting and benefiti...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Read this exclusive story featuring Jahidul Khandaker, CIO at Western Digital, who talks about how Infosys transfo...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Digital transformation demands more than updated technology and business efficiency. This article discusses how ch...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Chief information security officers (CISOs) are responsible for ensuring low vulnerability scores and minimal atta...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Vishal Salvi, CISO, Infosys, shares his predictions of the future in the cybersecurity space. Click here to contin...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Steve Williams, head of IT Strategy and Architecture, Bupa Global, discusses the automation journey of the insuran...

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” As enterprises embrace the cloud, AI and deep data analytics, existing jobs, and workplaces will go through a fund...

“Workplace used to be defined by physical location. Even when employees were hard at work elsewhere, from home or on the road, they were out of the office. When offices began to shut down in Mar...

The news: A pigs heart has been transplanted into a human being for the first time. A man with terminal heart disease named David Bennett Sr received a transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart d...

When Zipline, the operator of the worlds largest autonomous drone delivery system, began building its logistics service to deliver medicines, vaccines, and medical supplies to health facilities across...

Later next month, Maeghan Easler will have a box fan propped in the window, blowing cold February air into her apartment in Des Moines, Iowa. Shell have cooling packstights filled with ice cubess...

Before reality, theres simulation.  A 2021 missile-inceptor test conducted by aerospace and US defense technology provider Raytheon Technologies held no surprises because the company had already ...

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From the MIT Technology Review art team, here are some of our very favorite illustrations of the year:...

Like clockwork, at the end of every year, people around the world sit down and make resolutions for the new one: lose weight, meditate, save money.  Maybe this year its time to tak...