The SEC Is Suing Elon Musk. It’s All in the Timing
With the clock running out on the Biden administration, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Elon Musk in federal court. The statute...
Training robots in the AI-powered industrial metaverse
For example, Siemens’ SIMATIC Robot Pick AI expands on this vision of adaptability, transforming standard industrial robots—once limited to rigid, repetitive tasks—into complex machines....
Mark Zuckerberg and the power of the media
The Chat Every week, I talk to one of MIT Technology Review’s journalists to go behind the scenes of a story they are working...
Judge Ends One Man’s 11-Year Quest to Recover $765 Million in Bitcoin by Digging...
A British judge ruled against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where he says a hard drive with access to thousands of...
Panasonic Z95A OLED TV Review: Searing Brightness and Colors
Photograph: Ryan WaniataThanks to excellent picture processing, details pop, from crystalline 4K Blu-rays to 1080p and even 720p upscaling. Only the fuzziest SD images...
Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves
This 180-degree change is a response to Donald Trump's imminent second presidential term and to the methods of the competition, such as X's Community...
Anthropic’s chief scientist on 5 ways agents will be even better in 2025
2/ Agents will understand context “Claude needs to learn enough about your particular situation and the constraints that you operate under to be...
The Evolving (and Inexact) Science of Fleeing a Wildfire
As wildfires bore down on neighborhoods across Los Angeles this week, residents and authorities faced a wrenching and almost impossible challenge: convincing hundreds of...
The Download: escalating pandemic risks, and ask us anything on Reddit
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Meta’s new speech policies allow the denigration of trans peopleThe...
How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
I first covered the virus in an article published on January 7, 2020, which had the headline “Doctors scramble to identify mysterious illness emerging...
