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Police drones, rapid deliveries of blood, tech-friendly regulations, and autonomous weapons are all signs that drone technology is changing quickly. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series ...

Its creators hope their work could lead to further research to determine which risks to take more seriously. Adopting AI can be fraught with danger. Systems could be biased, or parrot falsehoods ...

Since the heyday of radio, records, cassette tapes, and MP3 players, the branding of sound has evolved from broad genres like rock and hip-hop to “paranormal dark cabaret afternoon” and ...

An intelligent digital agent could be a companion for life—and other predictions for the next 125 years. Happy birthday, baby. You have been born into an era of intelligent machines. They have ...

The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. A US agency pursuing moonshot health breakthroughs has hired a researcher ...

Something peculiar and slightly unexpected has happened: people have started forming relationships with AI systems. This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your ...

Two years into the Inflation Reduction Act, an influx of investment is starting to make a difference in the climate tech sector. The government has already spent billions, and there’s much more ...

Using steel with lower emissions would add only 1% to the price of the average new vehicle. Steel scaffolds our world, undergirding buildings and machines. It also presents a major challenge for ...

A previously unreported project is intended to improve how facial recognition algorithms track children over time. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking into ways it might use ...

Lifestyle changes could counter some of the deterioration. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every ...

Widespread distrust of our public health system is reviving long-debunked ideas on HIV and AIDS—and energizing a broad movement that questions the foundations of disease prevention. Several ...