Embracing the promise of a compute-everywhere future
The internet of things and smart devices are everywhere, which means computing needs to be…
This huge Chinese company is selling video surveillance systems to Iran
A Chinese company is selling its surveillance technology to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, police, and military,…
The Soviets turned the Volga River into a machine. Then the machine broke.
You can find Dubna, a small town three hours away from Moscow by train, both…
To accelerate business, build better human-machine partnerships
Businesses that want to be digital leaders in their markets need to embrace automation, not…
The trial of Charles Lieber is also a test of the China Initiative
In February of 2020, agents arrived at Harvard University looking for Charles Lieber, a renowned…
The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse. Scientists are racing to understand the dangers.
On a Saturday morning in December of 2020, the RRS Discovery floated in calm waters just…
How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities
Fae Saulenas does not want your sympathy. Saulenas, along with her 46-year-old daughter Lauren, spent…
In the experience economy, systems of experience take center stage
In a now-famous 1998 article in the Harvard Business Review, B. Joseph Pine II and…
The employee-driven future
The global pandemic accelerated the trend toward a work-from-anywhere, distributed workforce. As we approach a…
DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size
In the two years since OpenAI released its language model GPT-3, most big-name AI labs…