July 7, 2025

Producing tangible business benefits from modern iPaaS solutions

When a historic UK-based retailer set out to modernize its IT environment, it was wrestling with systems that had grown organically for more than 175 years. Prior digital transformation efforts had resulted in a patchwork of hundreds of integration flows spanning cloud, on-premises systems, and third-party vendors, all communicating across multiple protocols.  The company needed…

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4 A-Rated Biotech Stock Picks for 2024 Success

December 26, 2023
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),…

This vibrating weight-loss pill seems to work—in pigs

December 22, 2023
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…

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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