Why some “breakthrough” technologies don’t work out
Every year, MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. In fact, the 2026 version is out today. […]
The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial space station
For decades, space stations have been largely staffed by professional astronauts and operated by a handful of nations. But that’s
Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a
Good technology should change the world
The billionaire investor Peter Thiel (or maybe his ghostwriter) once said, “We were promised flying cars, instead we got 140
The Download: the case for AI slop, and helping CRISPR fulfill its promise
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A new CRISPR startup is betting regulators will ease up on gene-editing
Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013, calling it the biggest biotech
America’s new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific research
The new year has barely begun, but the first days of 2026 have brought big news for health. On Monday,
The Download: mimicking pregnancy’s first moments in a lab, and AI parameters explained
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Using unstructured data to fuel enterprise AI success
Enterprises are sitting on vast quantities of unstructured data, from call records and video footage to customer complaint histories and