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The Download: what’s next for electricity, and living in the conspiracy age
Rhiannon Williams, 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. Three things to know about the future of electricity The International Energy Agency recently released the latest version…
Nov 20, 2025, 1:10 PM
Can “The Simpsons” really predict the future?
Amelia Tait, MIT Technology Review
According to internet listicles, the animated sitcom The Simpsons has predicted the future anywhere from 17 to 55 times. “As you know, we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump,” the newly sworn-in President Lisa Simpson declared way back in…
Oct 30, 2025, 10:00 AM
It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist
Dorian Lynskey, MIT Technology Review
The timing was eerie. On November 21, 1963, Richard Hofstadter delivered the annual Herbert Spencer Lecture at Oxford University. Hofstadter was a professor of American history at Columbia University who liked to use social psychology to explain political his…
Oct 30, 2025, 10:00 AM
What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert)
Mike Rothschild, MIT Technology Review
On a gloomy Saturday morning this past May, a few months after entire blocks of Altadena, California, were destroyed by wildfires, several dozen survivors met at a local church to vent their built-up frustration, anger, blame, and anguish. As I sat there list…
Oct 30, 2025, 10:00 AM
The Download: carbon removal’s future, and measuring pain using an app
Rhiannon Williams, 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. What’s next for carbon removal? After years of growth that spawned hundreds of startups, the nascent carbon removal secto…
Oct 24, 2025, 12:10 PM
The Download: a promising retina implant, and how climate change affects flowers
Rhiannon Williams, 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. This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle The news: Science Corporation—a competitor to Neur…
Oct 20, 2025, 12:10 PM
The Download: planet hunting, and India’s e-scooters
Charlotte Jee, 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. An Earthling’s guide to planet hunting The pendant on Rebecca Jensen-Clem’s necklace is composed of 36 silver hexagons en…
Oct 13, 2025, 12:11 PM
The Download: using AI to discover “zero day” vulnerabilities, and Apple’s ICE app removal
Rhiannon Williams, 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. Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology A team at Microsoft says it used artificial intelligence to di…
Oct 3, 2025, 12:10 PM
The US may be heading toward a drone-filled future
James O'Donnell, MIT Technology Review
On Thursday, I published a story about the police-tech giant Flock Safety selling its drones to the private sector to track shoplifters. Keith Kauffman, a former police chief who now leads Flock’s drone efforts, described the ideal scenario: A security team a…
Sep 30, 2025, 9:00 AM
The Download: AI to detect child abuse images, and what to expect from our 2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list
Rhiannon Williams, 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. US investigators are using AI to detect child abuse images made by AI Generative AI has enabled the production of child s…
Sep 29, 2025, 12:10 PM
The Download: shoplifter-chasing drones, and Trump’s TikTok deal
Charlotte Jee, MIT Technology Review
Shoplifters in the US could soon be chased down by drones The news: Flock Safety, whose drones were once reserved for police departments, is now offering them for private-sector security, the company has announced. Potential customers include businesses tryin…
Sep 26, 2025, 12:12 PM
Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway
Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review
This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, signed a billion-dollar deal to buy electricity from the facility. One sm…
Sep 25, 2025, 10:00 AM
Trump is pushing leucovorin as a new treatment for autism. What is it?
Cassandra Willyard, MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. At a press conference on Monday, President Trump announced that his administrati…
Sep 24, 2025, 11:56 AM
How to measure the returns to R&D spending
David Rotman, MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Given the draconian cuts to US federal funding for science, including the admini…
Sep 17, 2025, 9:00 AM
We can’t “make American children healthy again” without tackling the gun crisis
Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review
Note for readers: This newsletter discusses gun violence, a raw and tragic issue in America. It was already in progress on Wednesday when a school shooting occurred at Evergreen High School in Colorado and Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley Unive…
Sep 11, 2025, 4:57 PM
How Trump’s policies are affecting early-career scientists—in their own words
Eileen Guo, Amy Nordrum, MIT Technology Review
Every year MIT Technology Review celebrates accomplished young scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors from around the world in our Innovators Under 35 list. We’ve just published the 2025 edition. This year, though, the context is pointedly different: The US…
Sep 8, 2025, 10:45 AM
How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy
James Temple, MIT Technology Review
On a spring day in 1954, Bell Labs researchers showed off the first practical solar panels at a press conference in Murray Hill, New Jersey, using sunlight to spin a toy Ferris wheel before a stunned crowd. The solar future looked bright. But in the race to c…
Sep 4, 2025, 10:00 AM
How to make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike
Joshua A. Basseches, MIT Technology Review
The second Trump administration is proving to be more disastrous for the climate and the clean energy economy than many had feared. Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act repealed most of the clean energy incentives in former president Joe Biden’s Inflati…
Aug 19, 2025, 9:00 AM
The Download: Trump’s golden dome, and fueling AI with nuclear power
Rhiannon Williams, 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. Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies Within a week of his inaugurati…
Aug 13, 2025, 12:10 PM
Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies
Becky Ferreira, MIT Technology Review
In 1940, a fresh-faced Ronald Reagan starred as US Secret Service agent Brass Bancroft in Murder in the Air, an action film centered on a fictional “superweapon” that could stop enemy aircraft midflight. A mock newspaper in the movie hails it as the “greatest…
Aug 13, 2025, 10:00 AM
The AI Hype Index: The White House’s war on “woke AI”
The Editors, MIT Technology Review
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. The Trump administration recently declared war on so-called…
Jul 30, 2025, 3:37 PM
The Download: saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat
Rhiannon Williams, 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. How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort …
Jul 25, 2025, 12:10 PM
The Download: what’s next for AI agents, and how Trump protects US tech companies overseas
Rhiannon Williams, 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. Navigating the rise of AI agents AI agents is a buzzy term that essentially refers to AI models and algorithms that can n…
Jul 23, 2025, 12:10 PM
The Download: three-person babies, and tracking “AI readiness” in the US
Rhiannon Williams, 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. Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF Eight babies have been born in the UK thanks to a techn…
Jul 17, 2025, 12:10 PM
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