How Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into human eggs
A few years ago, a young man from California’s technology scene began popping up in…
These impossible instruments could change the future of music
When Gadi Sassoon met Michele Ducceschi backstage at a rock concert in Milan in 2016,…
3 space science questions that computing is helping to answer
As space scientists collect more and more data, observatories around the world are finding new…
How Alibaba tracks China’s delivery drivers
Mr. Fu, a driver in Beijing for the food delivery service Eleme, makes about a…
Hello, from the mysterious world of computing
I’m Mat Honan, the new editor in chief of MIT Technology Review. This is the…
How we covered the evolution of computing
February 1969 From “Man, Machine, and Information Flight Systems”: The flight of Apollo 8 to…
Laptops alone can’t bridge the digital divide
In May 2020, two months after covid-19 shut down schools and public life around the…
We are awash in digital light
The computer scientist Alvy Ray Smith cofounded both Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division and Pixar Animation…
Be a good example
Freshman year of high school, my boyfriend asked, “What’s it like having her around all…
An uber-optimistic view of the future
Maybe it never truly went away. But these days techno-optimism—the kind that raged in the…