Why it’s so hard to make tech more diverse
In 2017, MIT Technology Review honored Tracy Chou as one of our 35 Innovators Under…
This photographer-scientists collaboration shows the speed of climate change
Climate change is warping geological time, compressing the time scales of natural processes. In photographs…
Cheaper solar PV is key to addressing climate change
In late 2007, less than 10 years into the company’s existence, Google came out swinging…
The power of us
Though we’ve called it the “Change” issue, this edition of the magazine is really about…
China’s path to modernization has, for centuries, gone through my hometown
One day in late March, People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, shared a…
Tech’s new labor movement is harnessing lessons learned a century ago
The workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, wanted a union. The center…
What does breaking up Big Tech really mean?
For Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Alphabet, covid-19 was an economic blessing. Even as the pandemic…
The great chip crisis threatens the promise of Moore’s Law
A year into the covid-19 pandemic, Apple commemorated the growing array of devices featuring its…
The race to find covid-19 drug treatments that actually work
The global effort to develop vaccines against covid-19 has been a scientific triumph. The search…
Venus doesn’t have enough water in its clouds to sustain life
It has long been thought that intense pressures and temperatures on Venus made life at…