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Pump jacks and pipelines clutter the Elk Hills oil field of California, a scrubby stretch of land in

Robots that can do many of the things humans do in the home—folding laundry, cooking meals, cleaning

In an attempt to protect its forests and famous wildlife, Virunga has become the first national park

We live in an undeniably gamified world. We stand up and move around to close colorful rings and ear

Digital clones of people's dead relatives are far from perfect: they're occasionally impersonal and

A Silicon Valley startup wants to supercharge trees to soak up more carbon and cool the climate. Is

What is AI?

2024/10/9

Artificial intelligence is the hottest technology of our time. But what is it? It sounds like a stup

The growing business of surf pools wants to bring the ocean experience inland, making surfing more a

Open-world video games are inhabited by vast crowds of computer-controlled characters. These animate

At any given time, the US organ transplant waiting list is about 100,000 people long. Martine Rothbl

Design thinking suggests that we are all creatives, and we can solve any problem if we empathize har

Tokelau is a group of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand

An AI startup created a hyperrealistic deepfake of MIT Technology Review’s senior AI reporter that w

Though “user” seems to describe a relationship that is deeply transactional, many of the technologic

We've known of Europa’s existence for more than four centuries, but for most of that time, Jupiter’s

Despite all their runaway success, nobody knows exactly how—or why—large language models work. And t

Moore’s Law holds that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years or

AI consciousness isn’t just a devilishly tricky intellectual puzzle; it’s a morally weighty problem

Three years ago this week we launched this podcast on a mission to show the world how AI touches our

Hidden away in our voices are signals that may hold clues to how we’re doing, what we’re feeling and