June 18, 2025

Puzzle Corner

Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the July/August 2025 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by guest editor Ed Faulkner ’03. Send problems, solutions (by August 1), and comments to puzzlecorner@technologyreview.com. Editor emeritus Allan Gottlieb ’67 launched Puzzle Corner in 1966. Find back issues through 2022 at cs.nyu.edu/~gottlieb/tr and more recent back issues at technologyreview.com/puzzle-corner.

August 2023

India greenlights privacy bill as opposition members opt to stay absent

August 9, 2023
The upper house of India’s parliament greenlit the long-delayed data protection bill on Wednesday, facing no resistance as opposition leaders opted out of participation. The legislation aims to grant the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government greater control over the operations of major tech companies in their crucial foreign market. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill […]

The Download: the promise of stem cell treatments, and China’s screen time crackdown

August 9, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. After 25 years of hype, embryonic stem cells are still waiting for their moment In 1998, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from human embryos. It was a breakthrough for biology, since these cells…

Teach Me Like I’m 5 with Tim Grover

August 9, 2023
On this episode of the Jeff Fenster show, host Jeff Fenster takes Tim Grover through our segment called “Teach Me Like I’m 5” where we ask 3 simple questions to our guests in hopes of answering the questions others might be too afraid to ask.

Deepset secures $30M to expand its LLM-focused MLOps offerings

August 9, 2023
Deepset, a platform for building enterprise apps powered by large language models akin to ChatGPT, today announced that it raised $30 million in a funding round led by Balderton Capital with participation from GV and Harpoon Ventures. The proceeds will be put toward expanding Deepset’s products and services and growing its team from around 50 […]

After 25 years of hype, embryonic stem cells are still waiting for their moment

August 9, 2023
Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, researchers in Wisconsin isolated powerful stem cells from human embryos. It was a fundamental breakthrough for biology, since these cells are the starting point for human bodies and have the capacity to turn into any other type of cell—heart cells, neurons, you name it. National Geographic would later summarize the…

Home on the Trading Range

August 9, 2023
The nearly 20% bull run for the S&P 500 (SPY) from the March lows is over. Now it’s time to rest up in a trading range for the next run…