AI and the future of sex
The power of pornography doesn’t lie in arousal but in questions. What is obscene? What…
Inside the long quest to advance Chinese writing technology
Every second of every day, someone is typing in Chinese. In a park in Hong…
Move over, text: Video is the new medium of our lives
The other day I idly opened TikTok to find a video of a young woman…
We finally have a definition for open-source AI
Open-source AI is everywhere right now. The problem is, no one agrees on what it…
The Download: the future of human evolution, and touch sensing for robots
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Tech that measures our brainwaves is 100 years old. How will we be using it 100 years from now?
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in…
Andrew Ng’s new model lets you play around with solar geoengineering to see what would happen
AI pioneer Andrew Ng has released a simple online tool that allows anyone to tinker…
AI could be a game changer for people with disabilities
As a lifelong disabled person who constantly copes with multiple conditions, I have a natural…
The Download: simulating solar geoengineering, and AI-enabled accessibility
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
A new system lets robots sense human touch without artificial skin
Even the most capable robots aren’t great at sensing human touch; you typically need a…