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Will These 3 Biotech Stocks Make Gains in 2024?

January 25, 2024
In the swiftly progressing arena of biotechnology, technological advancements, increasing merger and acquisition maneuvers, and developing product pipelines are driving significant expansion in this sector. The sector’s strong potential is…

The contentious path to a cleaner future

January 25, 2024
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The world is building solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, and other crucial climate technologies faster than ever. As the pace picks up, though, a challenge is looming: we need a whole…

How one mine could unlock billions in EV subsidies

January 25, 2024
A collection of brown pipes emerge at odd angles from the mud and overgrown grasses on a pine farm north of the tiny town of Tamarack, Minnesota. Beneath these capped drill holes, Talon Metals has uncovered one of America’s densest nickel deposits—and now it wants to begin tunneling deep into the rock to extract hundreds…

Self-driving vehicle company Aurora cuts 3% of its workforce

January 24, 2024

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle technology company aiming to launch a “driverless” self-driving trucks business by the end of 2024, laid off dozens of workers this week, according to sources familiar with the action. The Pittsburgh-based company, which also has facilities in California, Colorado, Texas and Montana, has since confirmed that about 3% of its […]

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Web Summit CEO jumps ship to head up NPR after just three months

January 24, 2024

Technology can sometimes move at the speed of light. And so, too, can technology executives. In a shock move, Web Summit announced today that Katherine Maher — who was hastily appointed to the role of CEO and chairperson of the events company only at the end of October 2023 — is stepping down from the […]

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The Download: how China’s regulating robotaxis

January 24, 2024
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. How China is regulating robotaxis Not many technologies have had such a roller-coaster ride in the past year as robotaxis. In just a few months they went from San Francisco’s new darling to…

How China is regulating robotaxis

January 24, 2024
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Not many technologies have had such a roller-coaster ride in the past year as robotaxis. In just a few months they went from San Francisco’s new darling to a national scandal after…

X adds support for passkeys on iOS after removing SMS 2FA support last year

January 23, 2024

X, formerly Twitter, today announced support for passkeys, a new and more secure login method than traditional passwords, which will become an option for U.S. users on iOS devices. The technology has been adopted by a number of apps as of late, including PayPal, TikTok, WhatsApp, and others. Today we’re excited to launch Passkeys as […]

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Now is the time to invest in edtech

January 23, 2024

Just tacking AI onto a product isn’t enough, and investors are hoping that the technology will lead to more innovation in the space.

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