Technology

Google is launching new anti-censorship technology created in response to actions by Iran’s government during the 2022 protests there, hoping that it will increase access for internet users living under authoritarian regimes all over the world. Jigsaw, a unit of Google that operates sort of like an internet freedom think tank and that creates related…

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. Introducing: Our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2023 How do you know what’s coming next, especially with a topic as fast-moving as technology? One way is to focus on the technology itself,…

Married co-founders Ivan Martinez and Christan Summers discuss how the seed of an idea grew into a thriving business through a combination of heartfelt passion and powerful technology.

In his essay introducing this year’s class of Innovators Under 35, Andrew Ng argues that AI is a general-purpose technology, much like electricity, that will be built into everything else. Indeed, it’s true, and it’s already happening.  AI is rapidly becoming a tool that powers all sorts of other tools, a technological underpinning for a…

This essay is part of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Innovators Under 35 package. Meet this year’s honorees. Innovation is a powerful engine for uplifting society and fueling economic growth. Antibiotics, electric lights, refrigerators, airplanes, smartphones—we have these things because innovators created something that didn’t exist before. MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 list celebrates individuals who have…

Yatish Turakhia is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Innovators Under 35.  When covid-19 started spreading in early 2020, scientists quickly realized that tracking how the virus was mutating would be essential for public health as new strains emerged that put people at greater risk. Yatish Turakhia, then a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz’s Genomics…