Category: 3. Tech

The must-reads

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.

1 Elon Musk has turned on Trump 
He called Trump’s domestic policy agenda a “disgusting abomination.” (

This year, a number of LRMs, which try to solve a problem step by step rather than spit out the first result that comes to them, have achieved high scores on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), a test given to the top 5% of…

The phrase “the world’s smallest violin” is dripping with sarcasm and…

On June 3, 1925, Goodyear launched its first civil airship. Over the next century,…

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A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

In the fall of 2020, gig workers in Venezuela posted a series of images to online forums where they talk shop. The photos were mundane, if…

AI video is on another level

When we tested the energy demands of various models, we found the energy required to produce even a low-quality, five-second video to be pretty shocking: It was 42,000 times more than the amount needed for a chatbot…

Gravity seems like a predictable, even mundane, aspect of existence. The…

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​​Adventures in the genetic time machine

An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens from the past.

The technology is being used to create genetic maps…

In the demanding environment of laboratory work, burnout is a common issue. Explore how cutting-edge lab solutions can streamline processes, improve consistency and provide the support your lab technicians…

Numerous researchers whose grants were terminated didn’t respond to inquiries from MIT Technology Review or declined to comment, amid growing concerns that the Trump administration will punish scientists or institutions that criticize their…