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The Download: 2023’s worst tech failures, and the end of online anonymity in China

December 22, 2023
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…

3 Publishing Stocks to Watch in 2024

December 22, 2023
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…

Gene editing had a banner year in 2023

December 22, 2023
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…

Is this the most energy-efficient way to build homes?

December 22, 2023
When the Canadian engineer Harold Orr and his colleagues began designing an ultra-efficient home in Saskatchewan in the late ’70s, responding to a provincial conservation mandate during the oil embargo, they knew that the trick wasn’t generating energy in a greener way, but using less of it. They needed to make a better thermos, not…

How 2023 marked the death of anonymity online in China

December 22, 2023
If you think about it, there are so many people we meet on the internet daily whose real names we will never know. The TikTok teen who learned the trendy new dance, the anime artist who uploaded a new painting, the random commenter who posted under a YouTube video you just watched. That’s the internet…

Propelled by ‘science for humanity,’ this Chinese AI startup sets sight on US

December 21, 2023

Amid rising geopolitical tensions, many Chinese tech companies find themselves recalibrating their overseas pursuits, often sidestepping any reference to their origin. One bold startup called DP Technology stands out from the crowd. Working to apply artificial intelligence to molecular simulations, DP, short for “Deep Potential”, believes that the unifying power of “scientific research for humanity” […]

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A provocative role for technologists in product innovation

December 21, 2023

Instead of forcing a technology onto a product, the design process flows to the technologies. In this way, the technology becomes a natural solution.

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Cisco to acquire cloud-native networking and security startup Isovalent

December 21, 2023

Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Isovalent, a cloud-native security and networking startup that should fit well with the company’s core networking and security strategy. The companies did not share the purchase price. Isovalent has helped develop eBPF, a key open source technology that gives developers deep insight into the operating system […]

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The Download: recreating the early internet, and 2023 in climate data

December 21, 2023
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. Recapturing early internet whimsy with HTML  Websites weren’t always slick digital experiences.  There was a time when surfing the web involved opening tabs that played music against your will and sifting through walls…

2023 is breaking all sorts of climate records 

December 21, 2023
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. This has been quite the year for climate news, with weather disasters, technological breakthroughs, and policy changes making headlines around the world. There’s an abundance of bad news, but there are also…