3 things Rhiannon Williams is into right now

MIT Technology Review’s news reporter and author of our daily newsletter The Download shares what she’s thinking about lately. Read More

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An MIT study finds that as the planet warms, the recurrence of destructive storm tides will increase tenfold for one of the world’s hardest-hit regions. New electronic “skin” could lead to lightweight ... Read More

The Download: tackling tech-facilitated abuse, and opening up AI hardware

—by Ayah Bdeir, a leader in the maker movement, champion of open source AI, and founder of littleBits, the hardware platform that teaches STEAM to kids through hands-on invention. Read More

Here’s the problem with new plastic recycling methods - MIT Technology Review

Technology is giving us more options for plastic waste, but new methods are still far from perfect. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive ... Read More

Travels with Rambax

“Rambax is unique,” says Touré, whose family of prominent griot percussionists had him drumming from the age of four. Traveling to Senegal allowed the students to experience the cultural significance ... Read More

Haystack’s first heyday

In the 1960s, an unexpected gift from the Air Force led Herb Weiss ’40 to develop an antenna that could track a speeding bullet 1,000 miles above Earth. And a radome Buckminster Fuller had helped ... Read More

The Download: our 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2025

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Introducing: MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough ... Read More

The Download: EV subsidies risks, and introducing The Debrief - MIT Technology Review

Mat Honan, MIT Technology Review’s editor in chief, has launched his very own newsletter: The Debrief. It’s a weekly take on the tech news that really matters, links to stories we love—as ... Read More

The Download: introducing: the 125th Anniversary issue - MIT Technology Review

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the 125th Anniversary issue With this issue ... Read More

The Download: peering inside an LLM, and the rise of Signal - MIT Technology Review

The news: The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does as it comes up with a response, revealing key new insights into how the technology ... Read More

This startup is getting closer to bringing next-generation nuclear to the grid - MIT Technology Review

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter.To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign u p here. This is a busy time of year for all of us, and that ... Read More

The Download: AI can cheat at chess, and the future of search

MIT Technology Review Narrated: AI search could break the web. At its best, AI search can infer a user’s intent, amplify quality content, and synthesize information from diverse sources. Read More