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When athletes or soldiers have a concussion, the most beneficial course of action is to simply get them off the playing field or out of the action so they can recover. Yet much about head injuries remains a mystery, including the reasons why some impacts result in concussion while others don’t. But new measuring devices…

The energy sector is expected to witness considerable long-term growth and expansion, thanks to robust demand for oil and gas globally and the rapid adoption of digital technology. Given this…

Whenever chaos engulfs a proprietary technology relied on by millions, the default knee-jerk reaction from many seems to be: “Hey, let’s see what the open source world has to offer.” Case in point: X’s (Twitter) steady demise since Elon Musk took over last year led many to search for more “open” alternatives, be it Mastodon […]

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The biotechnology industry is experiencing significant growth, fueled by recent breakthroughs in drug development, technological innovations, and robust government support. Given this backdrop, promising biotech stocks Shionogi & Co. (SGIOY),…

It was a slow year in enterprise technology M&A, and the total was the second lowest since we started compiling the data in 2018.

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What if all you needed to lose weight were some good vibrations? That’s the idea behind a new weight-loss pill that tricks the brain into thinking the stomach is full, by stimulating the nerve endings that sense when the stomach expands. The capsule, about the size of a large vitamin, houses a tiny motor that…

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. The worst technology failures of 2023 Welcome to our annual list of the worst technologies. This year, one technology disaster in particular holds lessons for the rest of us: the Titan submersible that…

The increased incorporation of digital technology continues to be a crucial catalyst propelling sustained resilience within the publishing industry, ensuring its stability through the foreseeable future. To that end, let’s…

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Welcome back to The Checkup. This will be our last issue of 2023, so this week I’ve been reflecting on our biotechnology coverage over the past…