This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little
A US agency pursuing moonshot health breakthroughs has hired a researcher advocating an extremely radical…
What’s next for drones
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you…
Escaping Spotify’s algorithm
Since the heyday of radio, records, cassette tapes, and MP3 players, the branding of sound…
The Download: what tomorrow holds for today’s babies, and replacing the brain
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
DHS plans to collect biometric data from migrant children “down to the infant”
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to collect and analyze photos of the…
Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today
Happy birthday, baby. You have been born into an era of intelligent machines. They have…
The US government is still spending big on climate
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it…
What Japan’s “megaquake” warning really tells us
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to…
The Download: facial recognition for migrant children, and Japan’s megaquake
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
A new public database lists all the ways AI could go wrong
Adopting AI can be fraught with danger. Systems could be biased, or parrot falsehoods, or…