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What to know about aviation’s ‘black box’ after report on deadly Air India crash
A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off, starving the engines of fuel and causing a loss...
AI robots can already carve stone statues. Entire buildings are next
Inside a cavernous 1930s-era warehouse on the northern edge of Brooklyn, the ancient and all-but-extinct art of stone carving is having a 21st century rebirth. This is the new...
European fusion startups shatter funding records in push for clean energy
Funding focus is a new series analysing cash flow into the European tech ecosystem. Last week, we looked at the largest investment rounds in the Netherlands, and now we’re...
The Download: California’s AI power plans, and and why it’s so hard to make welfare AI fair
California's statewide power grid operator is poised to become the first in North America to deploy artificial intelligence to manage outages, MIT Technology Review has learned. At an industry...
Women are slower to adopt AI at work. Here’s why
As a leader in technology for nearly 30 years, I have observed waves of innovation disrupt the global business landscape and trigger major shifts in the way we work....
‘Johnny Mnemonic’ predicted our addictive digital future
In the mid-1990s, Hollywood began trying to envision the internet (sometimes called the “information superhighway”) and its implications for life and culture. Some of its attempts have aged better...
How Kroger designed its catchy new sonic logo
What does Kroger’s brand sound like? Until recently, no one knew. And then on June 25, the grocery behemoth (which includes regional chains like King Soopers, Fred Meyer, Ralphs,...
These branding wizards revolutionized nonprofit design—and now they’re starting their own agency
While working as a creative director at the nonprofit Charity: Water, Tyler Riewer kept getting variations on the same question from other nonprofits: How had the organization built a...
The era of free AI scraping may be coming to an end
Ever since AI chatbots arrived, it feels as if the media has been on the losing end of a war of attrition. Chatbots are surging in popularity, and the...
5 work-from-home purchases worth splurging for
Aside from the obvious, one of the best parts of the work-from-home revolution is being able to outfit your workspace as you see fit. And if you spend your...
