February 7, 2025

How the tiny microbes in your mouth could be putting your health at risk

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. This week I’ve been working on a piece about teeth. Well, sort of teeth. Specifically, lab-grown bioengineered teeth. Researchers have created these teeth with a mixture of human…

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Impossible Foods has a big new offering in the works: filet mignon

October 13, 2022
Progress is being made on a truly impossible-seeming area of plant-based meat products: steak. And not just any steak, a filet mignon.  At MIT Technology Review’s ClimateTech event this afternoon, Impossible Foods founder Pat Brown shared that while he couldn’t give an exact date for when the company’s steak product will be ready for consumers…

How hydrogen and electricity can clean up heavy industry

October 12, 2022
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Hello hello and welcome back to The Spark!  This edition of the newsletter is coming to you with impeccable fall vibes from Boston.  I’m in town for our first annual ClimateTech event, and…

Polestar steers towards the mass market with its first electric SUV

October 12, 2022

EV maker Polestar has unveiled the Polestar 3, its first SUV designed to help propel the startup to bona fide mass market automaker. Priced from $83,900, the 489-horsepower Polestar 3 will achieve an estimated 300-mile range, according to Polestar – a competitive set of figures designed to compete with a forthcoming crop of battery-electric luxury […]

Polestar steers towards the mass market with its first electric SUV by Jaclyn Trop originally published on TechCrunch

Machine learning operations offer agility, spur innovation

October 12, 2022
Many organizations have adopted machine learning (ML) in a piecemeal fashion, building or buying ad hoc models, algorithms, tools, or services to accomplish specific goals. This approach was necessary as companies learned about the capabilities of ML and as the technology matured, but it also has created a hodge-podge of siloed, manual, and nonstandardized processes…

Cyber resilience melds data security and protection

October 12, 2022
Ransomware attacks—malware intrusions that block an organization’s access to its own data until a ransom is paid—are taking on alarming new aspects. As people’s work habits, daily routines, geographic locations, and trust in institutions have changed against a backdrop of global political shifts and the covid-19 pandemic, ransomware attacks have taken advantage of the opportunity…

AR/VR screens could be getting a lot better as ‘microLED’ tech sneaks out of the lab

October 12, 2022

Small displays like smartwatches and AR/VR applications are about to get a lot better, at least if Porotech has anything to do with it. Whereas regular LED displays have their red, green, and blue pixels side-by-side, in separate pixels, Porotech’s DynamicPixelTuning (DPT) tech promises to make every pixel capable of outputting all colors. The theory […]

AR/VR screens could be getting a lot better as ‘microLED’ tech sneaks out of the lab by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch