Technology

3 B-Rated Chip Stocks to Buy to Guard Your Portfolio

February 2, 2024
The semiconductor industry shows great potential for future prosperity amid rising integration of advanced technology, growing chip demand across sectors, and government support. To that end, fundamentally robust chip stocks…

The Download: how babies can teach AI, and new mRNA vaccines

February 2, 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. This baby with a head camera helped teach an AI how kids learn language Human babies are far better at learning than even the very best large language models. To be able to…

3 Biotech Stocks Investors Are Watching for Future Growth

February 2, 2024
A wide range of applications across several sectors, supportive government initiatives, rapid technological advancements, and shifting market dynamics position the biotechnology industry for robust long-term growth. Given the industry’s bright…

The next generation of mRNA vaccines is on its way

February 2, 2024
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! Today I want to talk about … mRNA vaccines. I can hear the collective groan from here, but wait—hear me out!…

This baby with a head camera helped teach an AI how kids learn language

February 1, 2024
Human babies are far better at learning than even the very best large language models. To be able to write in passable English, ChatGPT had to be  trained on massive data sets that contain millions or even a trillion words. Children, on the other hand, have access to only a tiny fraction of that data,…

Probabl is a new AI company built around popular library scikit-learn

February 1, 2024

Probabl isn’t your average AI startup as this new French company is an Inria spin-off company that revolves around an open-source data science library called scikit-learn — Inria is a well-known French technology research institute. As for scikit-learn, with more than 45,000 stars on GitHub, this Python module is widely used by machine learning teams […]

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The Download: recycling’s role, and tidying robots

February 1, 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. Why recycling alone can’t power climate tech The potential to use old, discarded products to make something new sounds a little bit like magic. This is why, in some cases at least, recycling…

3 Biotech Stock Sensations to Snatch up This Week

February 1, 2024
The future of the biotech industry appears promising, fueled by technology-driven advancements, increasing merger and acquisition maneuvers, and developing product pipelines. Given this backdrop, quality biotech stocks BioNTech SE (BNTX),…

Why recycling alone can’t power climate tech

February 1, 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 potential to use old, discarded products to make something new sounds a little bit like magic. I absolutely understand the draw, and in some cases, recycling is going to be a…

This robot can tidy a room without any help

February 1, 2024
Robots are good at certain tasks. They’re great at picking up and moving objects, for example, and they’re even getting better at cooking. But while robots may easily complete tasks like these in a laboratory, getting them to work in an unfamiliar environment where there’s little data available is a real challenge. Now, a new…