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Computers are ranking the way people look—and the results are influencing the things we do, the post

How we train fighter pilots—both real and artificial—is undergoing a series of rapid changes. In ord

A boy wrote about his suicide attempt. He didn’t realize his school's software was watching.While sc

Late last year the US Department of Defense successfully ran a dozen flight tests in which AI agents

A look at how artificial intelligence is starting to be used to support the elderly.We Meet:Dor Skul

We asked ChatGPT to summarize this episode and this is what it wrote:"In the episode, the host discu

We're joined on stage by two startup founders working to bring automation to smaller scale farms. A

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?This episode we go b

Our reporting about farming, AI and satellites turned into three episodes of this podcast, which you

A panel of luminaries join us live on stage at MIT Technology Review’s flagship conference, EmTech M

From chess to Jeopardy to e-sports, AI is increasingly beating humans at their own games. But that w

AI is used in farming in some ways you might not expect, like for tracking the health of crops—from

AI is used in agriculture to precisely target weeds and optimize irrigation practices. It’s also bei

We’re in the middle of another major disruption in retail—one that’s been accelerated by the pandemi

Face mapping and other tracking systems are changing the sports experience in the stands and on the

Algorithms now determine how much things cost. It’s called dynamic pricing and it adjusts according

In the past, hiring decisions were made by people. Today, some key decisions that lead to whether so

Shortages of everything from seeds to fertilizer might accelerate the adoption of technologies that

The International Space Station hosts scores of experiments that can’t be done on Earth. But it’s al

A look at how AI and other tech is being used to help predict, detect, and pinpoint the location of