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The Download: next-gen nuclear, and the data center backlash
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. How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint The popularity of commercial nuclear react…
Jan 14, 2026, 1:10 PM
The Download: sodium-ion batteries and China’s bright tech future
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. Sodium-ion batteries are making their way into cars—and the grid For decades, lithium-ion batteries have powered our phon…
Jan 13, 2026, 1:00 PM
What new legal challenges mean for the future of US offshore wind
Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review
For offshore wind power in the US, the new year is bringing new legal battles. On December 22, the Trump administration announced it would pause the leases of five wind farms currently under construction off the US East Coast. Developers were ordered to stop …
Jan 8, 2026, 11:00 AM
Powering up (and saving) the planet
Ken Shulman, MIT Technology Review
Water shortages in Southern California made an indelible impression on Evelyn Wang ’00 when she was growing up in Los Angeles. “I was quite young, perhaps in first grade,” she says. “But I remember we weren’t allowed to turn our sprinklers on. And everyone in…
Jan 6, 2026, 10:00 PM
The 8 worst technology flops of 2025
Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review
Welcome to our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest technologies of the year. This year, politics was a recurring theme. Donald Trump swept back into office and used his executive pen to reshape the fortunes of entire sectors, from r…
Dec 18, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Download: why 2025 has been the year of AI hype correction, and fighting GPS jamming
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. The great AI hype correction of 2025 Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called Chat…
Dec 16, 2025, 1:10 PM
The Download: introducing the AI Hype Correction package
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. Introducing: the AI Hype Correction package AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is…
Dec 15, 2025, 1:10 PM
AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements
Michelle Kim, MIT Technology Review
In 2024, a Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, Shamaine Daniels, used an AI chatbot named Ashley to call voters and carry on conversations with them. “Hello. My name is Ashley, and I’m an artificial intelligence volunteer for Shamaine Daniels’…
Dec 4, 2025, 7:54 PM
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
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