Ask Sophie: Can I get an O-1A visa to bypass the H-1B process?
Here’s another edition of “Ask Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.
Jeff Chow of Miro shares how team intelligence drives better product-building at TechCrunch All Stage
AI can help your team move faster — but only if your team knows how to move together. Join Jeff Chow, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Miro, for a roundtable sessions at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station, where he’ll break down how product-led innovation can supercharge collaborative problem-solving. […]
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Meet the 2023 Innovators Under 35
MIT Technology Review’s 2023 list of 35 Innovators Under 35 is now live. This annual list recognizes young entrepreneurs, researchers, and scientists working in some of the most promising areas of technology today. Explore the list and meet this year’s class of innovators, who are working across fields including artificial intelligence, climate and energy, biotechnology,…
Investing in holistic innovation
For many organizations, innovation is focused on a few strategically prioritized initiatives and often is incremental by design. Change and the surprises it brings can be a grudgingly accepted necessity. Savvy companies, however, acknowledge that innovation must also be part of a firm’s strategy and deployed through every department. The value of most companies in…
The Download: Google’s anti-censorship tool, and China’s critical minerals
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. Google has a new tool to outsmart authoritarian internet censorship The news: Google is launching new anti-censorship technology created in response to actions by Iran’s government during the 2022 protests, the company has…
How China hopes to secure its supply chain for critical minerals
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. When China announced back in July that it was restricting exports of germanium and gallium, it was a reminder of the leverage that China holds in the global supply chain for…
Google has a new tool to outsmart authoritarian internet censorship
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…
The Download: introducing our TR35 innovators
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,…
How Success Grew in Brooklyn for This Unique Plant Shop
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.
Building ethical thinking into 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…
She was a semi-pro Go player but learned that biology is even harder
Julia Joung is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Innovators Under 35. When an AI beat one of the world’s best Go players in 2017, Julia Joung felt relief. She’d spent her childhood in Taiwan mastering the ancient game and once aspired to become a professional player, representing her country. “I felt like part of…