Digital twins improve real-life manufacturing
Before reality, there’s simulation. A 2021 missile-inceptor test conducted by aerospace and US defense technology…
Our best illustrations of 2021
From the MIT Technology Review art team, here are some of our very favorite illustrations of the…
Have a better 2022 with these tech resolutions
Like clockwork, at the end of every year, people around the world sit down and make resolutions…
The Code Must Go On: An Afghan Coding Bootcamp Becomes a Lifeline Under Taliban Rule
Four months after the Afghan government fell to the Taliban, 22-year-old Asad Asadullah had settled…
The worst technology of 2021
We’ve never relied more on technology to solve our problems than we do now. Sometimes…
A desert robot depicts AI’s vast opportunities
When Hongzhi Gao was young, he lived with his family in Gansu, a province located…
The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail
A shock has reverberated inside Israel in the last few months. NSO Group, the billion-dollar…
This is one reason why being online felt so bad in 2021
New data shows that the polarization of political discourse online has remained largely unchanged since…
The China Initiative’s first academic guilty verdict raises more questions than it answers
Less than three hours after a jury in Boston began deliberating the fate of Harvard…
Our favorite stories of 2021
The end of the year is always a good time for a bit of introspection…