Your Google Wallet may soon be able to carry your passport
Globetrotters may soon be able to store their U.S. passport in a Google Wallet.
The UK is done with coal. How’s the rest of the world doing?
The UK is shutting down its final coal-fired power plant today, marking the end of…
The Download: how to break up with coal, and AI’s false climate promises
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
How the cost of living crisis and games industry turmoil could hurt Sony's PlayStation 5 Pro release
In late November 2020, I was one of those people standing in line—or rather, refreshing…
Sorry, AI won’t “fix” climate change
In an essay last week, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, argued that the accelerating…
As LLMs grow bigger, they're more likely to give wrong answers than admit ignorance
A team of AI researchers at Universitat Politècnica de València, in Spain, has found that…
The Download: a CRISPR patent battle, and the promise of tiny AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Space travel is dangerous. Could genetic testing and gene editing make it safer?
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in…
The Download: safer space travel, and generative AI in video games
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
A tiny new open-source AI model performs as well as powerful big ones
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), a research nonprofit, is releasing a family of…