In The Media Archive

7 Observations About AI In 2019
Source: Forbes.com
After years in the (mostly Canadian) wilderness followed by seven years of plenty, Deep Learning was officially recognized as the “dominant” AI paradigm and “a critical component of computing,” with its three key proponents, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio, receiving the Turing Award in March 2019.
02/10/2020

23andMe reportedly laid off 14% of its workforce as people stop buying DNA testing kits
Source: USA Today
Was DNA testing just a fad? The genetic testing company 23andMe laid off 100 employees Thursday, which is about 14% of its workforce, as sales slump across the industry, CNBC reported.
02/10/2020

Deepfakes are getting easier to make and the internet's just not ready
Source: Mashable
One of the coolest videos I’ve seen in the past year is a YouTube clip from The Late Show with David Letterman featuring actor and comedian Bill Hader. Or… was that actually Tom Cruise? It’s hard to tell sometimes because they keep seamlessly switching back and forth.
02/10/2020

Nanobots, ape chauffeurs and flights to Pluto. The predictions for 2020 we got horribly wrong
Source: CNN Business
History is littered with predictions and future projections. Many of these are given with supreme confidence, before they fade conveniently into insignificance as they whiz wide off the mark.
02/10/2020

TikTok could face a political reckoning
Source: Business Insider
A political message masked as a makeup tutorial video from TikTok has gone viral, and brought the short-form video platform’s relatively restrictive content moderation methods into the spotlight, per MIT Tech Review.
12/04/2019

Will the future of work be ethical?
Source: Techcrunch.com
After generations of increasing inequality, can we teach tech leaders to love their neighbors more than algorithms and profits?
12/04/2019

DNA test reunites half brothers; both were cops in Florida
Source: ABC News
When police Sgt. Dave Stull took a DNA test to learn more about his biological parents, he wasn’t expecting much.
12/04/2019

The US just moved ahead of China in quantum computing. But the race isn't over yet
Source: CNN
Google raced past China this week in the quest for “quantum supremacy” with its claim that a machine developed by the company can solve a problem in 200 seconds that would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years.
12/04/2019

IBM and Google disagree on quantum computing achievement
Source: CNBC
Google has a new paper in Nature that shows the results of a quantum computing experiment.
12/04/2019

Are neighborhood watch apps making us safer?
Source: Quartz
These days, a smartphone of a resident of San Francisco or New York might buzz with a notification of a new Instagram post from a friend or a news update about a jump in the stock market.
12/04/2019

A fake interview with Vladimir Putin demonstrates how convincing deepfakes could be created in real-time in just a matter of years
Source: businessinsider.com
A recent tech conference held at MIT had an unexpected special guest make an appearance: Russian President Vladimir Putin.
12/04/2019

Deep Learning Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Says AI Is Not Magic And Intel AI Experts Explain Why And How
Source: Forbes.com
Winner of the 2018 Turing Award, Bengio spoke at the EmTech MIT event about the “amazing progress in AI” while stressing the importance of understanding its current limitations.
12/04/2019

EmTech: Cybersecurity, Managing Disinformation and Securing Elections
Source: pcmag.com
Imagine if Russia, China, and Iran started to compete to see who could best disrupt the 2020 Election.
12/04/2019

5 Innovation Myths I Learned From Over 100 Patents
Source: inc.com
Everybody wants to be seen as an innovator, but some leaders subscribe to beliefs that actually hinder their ability to invent the future.
12/04/2019

Hospital in China denies links to world’s first gene-edited babies
Source: Techcrunch.com
News of the world’s first-ever gene-edited human babies being born in China caused a huge stir on Monday after the MIT Technology Review and the Associated Press brought the project to light.
12/17/2018

CRISPR babies are reportedly here
Source: Fastcompany.com
The gene-editing tool CRISPR has become a well-known tool in the science research arsenal. But this is the first time it’s ever been used to create new human babies.
12/17/2018

Chinese university to investigate after academic claims to have edited twins' genes
Source: Nasdaq.com
The Southern University of Science and Technology in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen said it had been unaware of the research project
12/17/2018

Experts cast doubt on whether China's news anchor is really A.I.
Source:
The anchor was developed by Xinhua and Chinese search engine Sogou.com and launched at the World Internet Conference last week.
12/17/2018

Experts cast doubt on whether China's news anchor is really A.I.
Source: Msn.com
The anchor was developed by Xinhua and Chinese search engine Sogou.com and launched at the World Internet Conference last week.
12/17/2018

More companies are chipping their workers like pets
Source: Engadget.com
Follow the yellow chip road to HR.
12/17/2018

MIT researchers create plane that flies without any moving parts
Source: Theverge.com
Say hello to electroaerodynamic propulsion
12/17/2018

MIT hosts China Summit, additional gatherings in Beijing
Source: News.mit.edu
MIT faculty, leadership, alumni, and Corporation members engage with old and new friends of the Institute.
12/17/2018

Drone standards get a first set and lasting nod as helpful guide
Source: Techxplore.com
From taking pictures of crops, to delivering food and medical supplies to monitoring natural disasters, drones are becoming an increasingly important feature of daily lives, helping to transform businesses and industries.
12/17/2018

Google and NASA Tackle Quantum Supremacy
Source: HPCwire.com
Demonstrating quantum supremacy has long been a goal within the quantum computing community although lately “quantum advantage” has gained currency.
12/17/2018

Will your driverless car ever choose to kill you?
Source: Yahoo.com
With self-driving cars becoming a reality it’s a pertinent question being given considerable thought.
12/17/2018

California Lawmakers Want To Ban Bad Default Passwords
Source: Forbes.com
These days there are dozens of different kinds of malware that constantly scour the Internet looking for machines with weak security that can be infected and turned into tools of cybercrime.
10/15/2018

Scientists Create Immature Human Eggs Out of Blood Cells For the First Time
Source: Smithsonianmag.com
The lab-grown eggs were not advanced enough for fertilization, but researchers say this next step in the future of reproduction could arrive soon
10/15/2018

A good announcement and a bad announcement for two nuclear-energy startups
Source: arstechnica.com
NuScale Power takes a step toward engineering; Transatomic power shuts down.
10/15/2018

How Zinc Batteries Could Change Energy Storage
Source: The New York Times
Making the batteries rechargeable and lowering their cost are seen as important advances in enabling the electric grid to depend on power from renewable sources.
10/15/2018

AI is relatively easy, until the enterprise gets involved
Source: ZDNet.com
As AI matures within enterprises, the emphasis shifts from labor replacement to enterprise-building
10/15/2018

Social media may be preventing us from having intelligent thoughts
Source: Moneyish
Seeing your friends hang out without you is affecting your cognitive ability
10/15/2018

Google Chief Privacy Officer Admits Chinese Search Engine Project Exists
Source: Mediapost.com
Google publicly confirmed for the first time that Project Dragonfly exists.
10/15/2018

Google puts AI in charge of datacenter cooling system
Source: Venture Beat
Google claims that Artificial intelligence (AI) is running one its data centers that also happens to be it’s first fully autonomous model of its kind.
09/11/2018

Life with four arms looks pretty great
Source: Fast Company
A robotic backpack gives humans an extra pair of arms. It’s just as uncanny as it sounds.
09/11/2018

California Lawmakers Just Voted to Make All Its Electricity Emissions-Free by 2045
Source: Mother Jones
Regulators have already predicted the state will meet that goal 10 years early, by 2020.
09/11/2018

The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deepfakes
Source: Techspot
The last thing the government wants is to be fake.
09/11/2018

Immortality through AI: Tech startups want to preserve your brain by uploading it onto the cloud
Source: KPCC: AirTalk
Biomedicine at MIT Technology Review, Antonio Regalado + bioethical ethicist, Nita Farahany, join us to discuss life after #death in the world of #AI
07/27/2018

Michael Bierut on how to reinvent a legacy brand
Source: Fast Company
The Pentagram partner, who recently redesigned MIT’s century-old Technology Review, weighs in with some tips.
07/10/2018

MIT Technology Review names top technologists
Source: CNBC
Gideon Lichfield, MIT Technology Review editor-in-chief, speaks to “Squawk Box” about the magazine’s list of innovators under the age of 35.
07/03/2018

MIT names 35 top young innovators in technology
Source: Boston Herald
MIT Technology Review yesterday announced its annual list of Innovators Under 35, a Who’s Who of some of the most cutting-edge technologists whose innovations are poised to transform our world.
06/28/2018

MIT Technology Review Redesigns for the Greater Good
Source: FOLIO:
CEO and publisher Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau on the magazine’s new approach and the purpose of print in 2018.
06/27/2018

Instead of abandoning print, the 119-year-old MIT Technology Review is doubling down on it
Source: NiemanLab
MIT Tech Review recently rebranded its print edition from just a collection of articles, into a product that doesn’t simply republish content that was posted online a month later, but has its own attitude and way of telling stories.
06/26/2018

MIT Technology Review Magazine Receives Modern Makeover From Pentagram Design
Source: DesignTAXI
MIT Technology Review magazine, a publication on the forefront of technological trends since 1899, has been given a new sheen.
06/22/2018

Pentagram’s Michael Bierut designs a new brand identity for MIT Technology Review
Source: It’s Nice That
MIT Technology Review has launched a new brand identity and editorial design by Pentagram’s Michael Beirut.
06/22/2018

Don’t Call Zcash A Privacy Coin, Cryptocurrency Founder Says
Source: International Business Times
MIT Technology Review listed zcash’s privacy features as one of the top 10 “breakthrough technologies” of 2018.
02/27/2018

The Morning Download: MIT Technology Review’s Top 10 Flags AI With Imagination
Source: The Wall Street Journal
MIT Technology Review this week cited the generative adversarial network, or GAN, as one of 2018’s 10 breakthrough technologies.
02/23/2018

Here Are The Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies For 2018
Source: Forbes
MIT Technology Review unveils its breakthrough technology list for 2018 – a rundown of 10 awe-inspiring scientific and technological advances that have the potential to change our lives in dramatic ways.
02/21/2018

The 10 biggest breakthrough technologies of 2018... so far
Source: TechRepublic
MIT Technology Review’s annual list of tech that will have a large impact on human life includes 3D metal printing, democratized AI, and online privacy that taps the blockchain.
02/21/2018

The top 10 breakthrough technologies and the key players leading the charge, according to MIT Technology Review
Source: Business Insider
Every fall, MIT Technology Review’s editors get together to begin the months-long process of reviewing their coverage. The goal? To create a list of the top ten technological advances from the last year that will have the greatest longterm global impact on consumers.
02/21/2018

These Are The Transformative Technologies That MIT Says Will Shape Our Future
Source: Fast Company
Dueling neural networks. Smart cities. Welcome to the world of tomorrow, according to MIT Technology Review.
02/21/2018

To Grow Stronger, China Has to Grow More Slowly
Source: The New York Times
An article in the M.I.T. Technology Review said the future of artificial intelligence is taking shape in China and urges the West to copy rather than fear this “revolution.”
10/30/2017

Intel shows off its latest chip for quantum computing as it looks past Moore's Law
Source: CNBC
Last year, MIT Technology Review declared that it was dead, and earlier this year Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the same thing.
10/30/2017

Alibaba to invest $15bn in R&D labs in push to become AI leader
Source: Financial Times
Speaking to the MIT Technology Review, Felix Liu, Alibaba’s head of customer experience, said the company began using AI for customer applications two to three years ago.
10/30/2017

Ford built a robot butt to test the seats in its cars
Source: Quartz
Ford has built a robotic device, which it’s nicknamed “Robutt,” to test the durability of the seats it puts in its vehicles, according to MIT Technology Review.
10/30/2017

Scientists Are Making Pigs Less Fatty for a Very Important Reason
Source: Fortune
As the MIT Technology Review notes, this system [base editing] could almost be thought of as CRISPR 2.0.
10/30/2017

Eight of the best science and tech newsletters to subscribe to
Source: Wired
The Download: A daily newsletter from MIT’s Technology Review. The email promises to give you the “what’s up in emerging technology”.
10/30/2017

How Smartphones Are Draining Our Brain Power
Source: WBUR: On Point
AUDIO: MIT Technology Review’s Biomedicine Editor, Antonio Regalado has looked a lot at brain implant technology and its promise or its distance from us right now.
10/27/2017

Harder, Better, Faster, CRISPR
Source: WBUR: Radio Open Source
AUDIO: Antonio Regalado is a key journalist on the CRISPR beat, a minute-to-minute reporter online for MIT Technology Review. Among the levels of his CRISPR coverage: the science, the people who do it, the motivations and the money.
08/21/2017

Scientists edit human embryos for first time in US
Source: CNN
MIT Technology Review published on Wednesday a news report about the first-known experiment to create genetically modified human embryos in the United States using a gene-editing tool called CRISPR.
07/31/2017

Yes, U.S. Scientists Edited an Embryo’s Genes, but Super-Babies Are a Ways Away
Source: Slate
MIT Technology Review reported Thursday that a team of researchers from Portland, Oregon were the first team of U.S.-based scientists to successfully create a genetically modified human embryo.
07/31/2017

Human Embryos ‘Edited’ in U.S. For First Time
Source: NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
VIDEO: According to MIT Technology Review which first reported on the breakthrough, the scientists used a technique called CRISPR.
07/28/2017

Finance and HR Leaders Shape Digital Disruption, New Research Finds
Source: Oracle
New Oracle and MIT Technology Review Custom study reveals the human drivers of cloud automation as the roles of finance, HR, and IT evolve to meet the needs of a more connected organization.
07/24/2017

Sex Robots, Climate Hacking, And Other Taboo Technologies
Source: NPR - Morning Edition
Antonio Regalado, biotech editor and reporter for the MIT Technology Review, joined WGBH’s Morning Edition host Bob Seay for a conversation about their list of the top taboo technologies.
03/21/2017

‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless
Source: The Atlantic
Writing at the MIT Technology Review, the Stanford computer scientist Jerry Kaplan makes a similar argument: AI is a fable “cobbled together from a grab bag of disparate tools and techniques.”
03/20/2017

Moore’s Law can’t last forever—but two small changes might mean your phone battery will
Source: Quartz
In May 2016, the MIT Technology Review ran the headline “Moore’s Law Is Dead.”
03/20/2017

Could This Be the Most Efficient Solar Panel Ever?
Source: Smithsonian.com
Fittingly, the technology is nicknamed “hot solar cells.” The cells were recently named one of MIT Technology Review’s “10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2017.”
03/20/2017

VIDEO: Self-driving trucks, paying with your face among breakthrough technologies of 2017
Source: FOX25 Boston
Will Knight, Senior Editor at MIT Technology Review, joins FOX25 Morning News Thursday morning to talk about both topics, which have been featured by MIT Technology Review 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2017.
03/20/2017

Is there such a thing as good eugenics?
Source: Los Angeles Times
Jeff Carroll, a Western Washington University neuroscientist who inherited the mutation for Huntington’s disease — which can cause people to lose bodily control and slowly go mad, like his mother did — has been outspoken in favor. “I am saying, please, please do mess with our DNA,” he told the MIT Technology Review.
03/20/2017

There is a huge hole in Trump’s promise to bring back US manufacturing jobs
Source: Business Insider
“The fact that the U.S. manufacturing sector has been succeeding by many measures in recent years makes Trump’s promises seem like false dreams,” Mark Muro, a senior fellow and the director of policy at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, wrote in MIT Technology Review. “No one should be under the illusion that millions of manufacturing jobs are coming back to America.”
03/20/2017

MIT Technology Review Reports on the Cost of Trump's Wall
Source: CNN: Fareed Zakaria GPS
“The [New York] Times” cites a report by the MIT Technology Review which says that the actual cost of the wall would be closer to $40 billion. Read the transcript which refers to our story (Bad Math Props Up Trumps Border Wall) here: http://cnn.it/2niZSMf
03/09/2017

VIDEO: Breakthrough Technologies of 2017
Source: C-SPAN: Washington Journal
Jason Pontin talked about MIT Technology Review’s annual list of the top ten breakthrough technologies and their expected impact on the world.
03/06/2017

It began with a BlackBerry
Source: Marketplace Tech
When Obama was first sworn in, some were worried about allowing him to keep his BlackBerry. Eight years later, he’s cemented his status as a pretty tech-forward president. As his second term ends, we’ll look back at the role of technology in his administration.
01/18/2017

Artificial Intelligence And The King Midas Problem
Source: The Huffington Post
[Stuart Russell, a renowned AI researcher] recently co-authored a rebuttal to an article in the MIT Technology Review, which claimed that real AI scientists weren’t worried about the existential threat of AI.
12/21/2016

Skype's real-time language translator: Can it really connect the world?
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
“In theory, Skype Translation could be transformative,” wrote John Pavlus for MIT Technology Review in 2015, months after the tool was first released just for Skype-to-Skype calls.
12/21/2016

Trump to meet with key US tech leaders: 6 questions that need to be answered
Source: TechRepublic
MIT Technology Review looked at how US manufacturing would affect the iPhone, and discovered it could add another $30-$40 to the device’s price.
12/21/2016

Google is spinning its self-driving car project out into its own company
Source: Quartz
Christopher Hart, the chairman of the US National Transportation Safety Board, recently expressed concerns to MIT Technology Review about technology ever being able to entirely remove human drivers as Waymo is intending to do, especially because of the ethical quandaries that these robot cars will likely find themselves in.
12/21/2016

Red Flags Are Rising For Apple's Stock
Source: Forbes
Apple’s innovation machine seems to be slowing down. Last year, Apple failed to make it to the MIT Technology Review’s 50 Smartest Companies.
12/09/2016

Selfie Death Causes Revealed in New Study
Source: Teen Vogue
As the MIT Technology Review points out, 39 people died while taking a selfie in 2015, and since August 2016, 73 people died while taking a selfie.
12/09/2016

Yes, Trump can boost deportations and gut the Dreamer program for young immigrants
Source: LA Times
Trump has said the wall could cost up to $12 billion to build. An analysis published by MIT Technology Review estimated the cost at $38 billion, nearly the entire annual budget for the 22 federal agencies in the Department of Homeland Security.
12/09/2016

Think 2016 was crazy? Wait until the accountants get replaced by robots
Source: CNBC
According to the MIT Technology Review, surgeons, lawyers, positions across the financial services sector, and educators are all on the list of professions likely to be dramatically impacted by automation.
12/09/2016

Could Donald Trump really get Apple to 'build a big plant' in the US?
Source: The Guardian
Though Apple markets its high-end products as being “designed by Apple in California”, the electronics are assembled at factories in China from components produced primarily in China, Japan and Taiwan, according to the MIT Technology Review.
12/09/2016

You can't judge a book by its cover – if you're a robot
Source: The Guardian
MIT Technology Review points us towards a new machine-vision algorithm dreamed up by academics at Kyushu University in Japan.
12/09/2016

Here's what 5 of your favorite products would cost if they were made in the US
Source: Business Insider
According to a different analysis published in the MIT Technology Review, if iPhone assembly were done in the US but the components were still sourced globally, the cost of making phones (currently estimated at about $230) would rise about 5%.
12/09/2016

Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum
Source: The New Yorker
As Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, told MIT Technology Review, “Productivity is at record levels, innovation has never been faster, and yet at the same time, we have a falling median income and we have fewer jobs. People are falling behind because technology is advancing so fast and our skills and organizations aren’t keeping up.” It is, he said, “the great paradox of our era.”
12/09/2016

An experimental treatment to help Parkinson's patients respond to medication better appears to be working
Source: Business Insider
The treatment is “one and done,” surgery, Voyager CEO Steve Paul told Business Insider in August. And this isn’t the first time researchers have tried this approach. A study done in 2009 wasn’t successful, because not enough cells in the brain were getting the new DNA, MIT Technology Review reports.
12/09/2016

Meet the Teenagers Who Found Their Own Startups
Source: Harvard Business Review
At the age of 19 [Javier Agüera, co-inventor of the first Android-powered handset] already had three startups behind him and was considered by MIT Technology Review one of the Innovators Under 35 in Spain.
12/09/2016

Greenland’s Vast Ice Sheet Is Way Less Stable Than We Thought, And That’s Bad News For The World
Source: The Huffington Post
“We have to be prepared that this ice sheet might go again, and it might go again soon,” [Joerg Schaefer] said, according to MIT Technology Review.
12/09/2016

Who Owns the Biggest Biotech Discovery of the Century?
Source: Wall Street Daily
The dispute will almost certainly head to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. So a final determination of who owns what MIT Technology Review dubbed “the biggest biotech discovery of the century” is many months — if not years — in the future.
12/09/2016

MIT Technology Review Interviews Brian Behlendorf On Hyperledger Blockchain
Source: Blockchain News
Twenty years ago, Brian Behlendorf helped kick-start the Web and now he’s rebooting the Web with Blockchain according to a lengthy article in the influential MIT magazine Technology Review.
12/09/2016

Robots and AI won't cost you your job anytime soon
Source: CIO
The growth of artificial intelligence was a hot topic at this year’s MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference, but if you’re concerned that robots are about you take your job, rest easy. They aren’t.
12/09/2016

Red Flags Are Rising For Apple's Stock
Source: Forbes
Apple’s innovation machine seems to be slowing down. Last year, Apple failed to make it to the MIT Technology Review’s 50 Smartest Companies.
12/09/2016

Inside a football player’s brain: Neurology professor gives a sneak peek into her work as she dissects subjects in an attempt to better understand head trauma and concussion
Source: The Daily Mail
The findings, which are preliminary and were referenced in a story by the MIT Technology Review, are biased, since many of the brains studied were donated by families who already suspected brain trauma.
01/25/2016

Robots are actually pretty good at imitating members of Congress
Source: The Washington Post
MIT Technology Review goes into more detail on the methodology.
01/25/2016

Navigating the politics of driverless cars
Source: The Boston Globe
Last fall, MIT Technology Review published an eye-opening article — entitled “Why self-driving cars must be programmed to kill” — that posed an updated variant of a classic ethical conundrum .
01/25/2016

Chinese search engine Baidu released some of its code after Eric Schmidt urged tech companies to join forces on AI
Source: Business Insider
MIT Technology Review reports that a machine learning startup called Nervana is already using Warp-CTC in its software.
01/19/2016

Why Wikipedia Is in Trouble
Source: Time
A 2013 article in the MIT Technology Review laid out Wikipedia’s alleged crisis in stark terms.
01/15/2016

Inside the weird world of cryonics
Source: Financial Times
In an article in MIT Technology Review this year, McGill University neuroscientist Michael Hendricks wrote that any suggestion that cryonics could bring a person back to life was “simply snake oil”.
12/21/2015

Magical thinking about progress won’t save planet Earth
Source: The Guardian
As Richard Martin writes in the MIT Technology Review, this figure [well below 2C] relies on emerging technologies that are barely proven.
12/18/2015

Utah Will Soon Have an Imaginary Theme Park
Source: Smithsonian.com
Rachel Metz of MIT Technology Review reports that Salt Lake City will soon have its own VR wonderland called The VOID.
12/17/2015

Virtual reality gives peek inside New England Patriots’ locker room
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called it [virtual reality] “the next major computing and communication platform,” reports MIT Technology Review.
12/08/2015