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Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a growing backlash and win back contracts lost amid concerns about mass surveillance and police abuse. Several changes aim directly...

James O'Donnell 1 week ago

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The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice

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. How kids feel about AI, in their own words —Jen Swetzoff and Keeley McNamara, the founding editors of Anyway, an independent print magazine for tweens...

Thomas Macaulay 1 week ago

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What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse

This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere. June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began. The contiguous US endured its hottest month on record in July. South Korea saw its highest-ever recorded temperature.   The heat isn’t over ye...

Casey Crownhart 1 week ago

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How kids feel about AI, in their own words

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up CliffsNotes or programmed formulas into their TI-82s, and others to share inspiring ways they...

Jen Swetzoff, Keeley McNamara 1 week ago

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Scientists just created female clones of male mice

Scientists have deliberately turned male mouse embryos into females for the first time. A team based in Japan used a CRISPR-based approach to remove the Y chromosome from male cells and create female clones of male mice.  “No one has done this before,” says Monika Ward, a reproductive biologist...

Jessica Hamzelou 1 week ago

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Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data

Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the technology’s potential to transform work. But many organizations find that realizing the desired return on investment (ROI) from AI hinges o...

MIT Technology Review Insights 1 week ago

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The Download: our 35 young innovators and the “censorship-industrial complex”

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. How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers On September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under...

Thomas Macaulay 1 week ago

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How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers

Next month, on September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking scientific work and building clever technical fixes for sticky problems.  By finding the top young innovators global...

Amy Nordrum 1 week ago

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How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the Internet and US policy

I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025.  That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring and countering foreign disinformation from the likes of Russia, Iran, and China, was facing imminent shutdown—the ne...

Eileen Guo 1 week ago

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Humans aren’t electronics

The following essay, originally titled “Guaranteeing Agency in the Age of Neural Prosthetics,” was selected as one of three finalists in MIT’s 2026 Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize. Its author, Strahinja  Janjušević, SM ’26, who studied computer science and cybersecurity at the US Nava...

Strahinja Janjušević, SM ’26 1 week ago

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The Download: the next big thing in LLMs and how AI academic research is shifting

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. These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs Nine years after Google researchers introduced the transformer, this family of neural networks h...

Thomas Macaulay 1 week ago

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AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising...

Grace Huckins 1 week ago

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The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”

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. AI for science needs reasoning, not just data —Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and the cofounder of Schmidt Sciences, and Suhas Mahesh, who lea...

Thomas Macaulay 1 week ago

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These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put out a paper called “Attention Is All You Need,” in which they des...

Will Douglas Heaven 1 week ago

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AI for science needs reasoning, not just data

Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s, Stephen Hawking predicted that theoretical physics might be finished by the end of the century. Wi...

Eric Schmidt, Suhas Mahesh 1 week ago

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Roundtables: Inside the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” Idea Shaping US Policy

The “censorship-industrial complex” is an idea that a network of government, tech, and research groups is collaborating to suppress conservative online speech. This was fodder for the right-wing information sphere for years—then it began making its way into US policy. Join executive editor Amy Nordr...

MIT Technology Review 2 weeks ago

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The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI

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. How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spre...

Thomas Macaulay 2 weeks ago

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How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy

This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading.  For months, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Effic...

Eileen Guo, Gisela Perez de Acha, Martin Sona 2 weeks ago

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The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model

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. Google’s AI empire is being reshaped. Here’s what’s changed. After a wave of painful losses in the tech talent wars, delays to its next flagship model...

Thomas Macaulay 2 weeks ago

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Puzzle Corner

Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the September/October 2026 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by Michael S. Branicky, ScD ’95, of the Puzzle Corner Puzzle Crew (aka PC2), which also includes Edward Faulkner ’03, MEng ’04, and Abe Kunin ’03. This column includes solutions to the May/June...

Michael S. Branicky, ScD ’95 2 weeks ago

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The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs

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. NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids   At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Tele...

Charlotte Jee 2 weeks ago

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NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its quest is to help us better understand how the universe works, from the glue-like dark matter that keeps galaxies together to the elusive dark energy that drives the expansion o...

Robin George Andrews 2 weeks ago

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The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab

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. Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics   —James O’Donnell  Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, k...

Charlotte Jee 2 weeks ago

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Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children, and despite advances are still worse at using their hands than my toddler. It’s...

James O'Donnell 2 weeks ago

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