Articles by Technology Review from February 2022

On February 4, a geomagnetic storm caused by the sun knocked up to 40 new SpaceX Starlink satellites out of orbit. Now experts are worried about whether mega-constellations planned by Elon Musk, Jeff ...

On a foggy morning in early February last year, dozens of journalists from around the world gathered outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Some walked around to find the best camera position; other...

I have spent a lot of my career, both in Silicon Valley and beyond, insisting that all our technologies have histories and even pre-histories, and that far from being neat and tidy, those stories are ...

Ransomware is hitting close to home for organizations of all sizes and sectors. With attacks making headlines daily, its no surprise that 62% of surveyed IT decision-makers are concerned about coping ...

Something has changed for the tech giants. Even as they continue to hold tremendous influence in our daily lives, a growing accountability movement has begun to check their power. Led in large part by...

In the early days of the pandemic, all eyes were on potential vaccines. In May 2020, the US announced Operation Warp Speed, a plan to spend billions on vaccine development. But mostly out of sight of ...

The news: People whove caught covid become infectious far more quickly than previously believed, according to the worlds first human challenge trial study in which healthy young volunteers were delibe...

Its one thing to know whether an individual customer is intrigued by a new mattress or considering a replacement for their sofas throw pillows; its another to know to how to move these people to go ah...

For someone with a deeply scientific job, Gil Herrera has a nearly mystical mandate: Look into the future and then shape it, at the level of strange quantum physics and inextricable math theorems, to ...

A police officer is at the scene of a murder. No witnesses. No camera footage. No obvious suspects or motives. Just a bit of hair on the sleeve of the victims jacket. DNA from the cells of one strand ...