Leaders Who Excel Don’t Just Talk — They Use These Easy-to-Follow Communication Strategies
Most professionals talk. Few truly influence. Learn how the right questions, timing and tone shape understanding and drive alignment at work.
Four things we’d need to put data centers in space
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. In January, Elon Musk’s SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission to launch up to one million data centers into Earth’s orbit. The…
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Nintendo Is Slashing Switch 2 Production by 33% — Here’s Why
Nintendo planned to produce 6 million Switch 2 consoles this quarter but had to scale back after U.S. demand weakened.
You Can Now Let Claude Take Over Your Computer. Here’s Why That’s Both Exciting and Terrifying.
Anthropic’s Claude can now click, scroll and navigate your computer like a human, performing tasks while you’re away.
Arbor Energy just landed a billion-dollar order to bring rocket turbine tech to the power grid
The large deal sees Arbor delivering as many as 200 of its Halcyon turbines, which can burn either natural gas or waste biomass.
This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math
Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a free new AI tool for mathematicians, designed to discover mathematical patterns that could unlock solutions to long-standing problems. The tool, called Axplorer, is a redesign of an existing one called PatternBoost that François Charton, now a research scientist at Axiom, co-developed in 2024…
Meta turns to AI to make shopping easier on Instagram and Facebook
Meta is using generative AI to provide more product and brand information to consumers when they’re shopping in its apps.
Sony and Honda give up on their joint EV project
The Sony-Honda joint venture has killed plans for its Afeela sedan and SUV electric vehicles. The news comes shortly after Honda reversed its plans to launch more electric vehicles in the U.S.
Elon Musk pauses changes to X’s creator revenue-sharing program after backlash
Hours after announcement of the new policy Elon Musk said X is pausing the rollout.
What Two ER Visits Taught Me About American Healthcare Leadership Failures
Going to the ER (twice) gave me a firsthand view of how fragmentation and impersonal systems fail people at life’s most critical moments.
The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns
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. This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona. It has been held there at a temperature…