February 7, 2025

Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab

Back in 2017, Facebook unveiled plans for a brain-reading hat that you could use to text just by thinking. “We’re working on a system that will let you type straight from your brain,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared in a post that year. Now the company, since renamed Meta, has actually done it. Except it weighs…

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Inside the quest to map the universe with mysterious bursts of radio energy

May 1, 2024
When our universe was less than half as old as it is today, a burst of energy that could cook a sun’s worth of popcorn shot out from somewhere amid a compact group of galaxies. Some 8 billion years later, radio waves from that burst reached Earth and were captured by a sophisticated low-frequency radio…

EU watchdog questions secrecy around lawmakers’ encryption-breaking CSAM scanning proposal

April 30, 2024

The European Commission has again been urged to more fully disclose its dealings with private technology companies and other stakeholders, in relation to a controversial piece of tech policy that could see a law mandate the scanning of European Union citizens’ private messages in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The issue […]

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Roundtables: Inside the Next Era of AI and Hardware

April 30, 2024
Recorded on April 30, 2024 Inside the Next Era of AI and Hardware Speakers: James O’Donnell, AI reporter, and Charlotte Jee, News editor Hear first-hand from our AI reporter, James O’Donnell, as he walks our news editor Charlotte Jee through the latest goings-on in his beat, from rapid advances in robotics to autonomous military drones,…

The Download: robotics’ data bottleneck, and our AI afterlives

April 30, 2024
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 robot race is fueling a fight for training data We’re interacting with AI tools more directly—and regularly—than ever before. Interacting with robots, by way of contrast, is still a rarity for most.…

My deepfake shows how valuable our data is in the age of AI

April 30, 2024
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Deepfakes are getting good. Like, really good. Earlier this month I went to a studio in East London to get myself digitally cloned by the AI video startup Synthesia. They made…

The robot race is fueling a fight for training data

April 30, 2024
Since ChatGPT was released, artificial intelligence has wowed the world. We’re interacting with AI tools more directly—and regularly—than ever before.  Interacting with robots, by way of contrast, is still a rarity for most. If you don’t undergo complex surgery or work in logistics, the most advanced robot you encounter in your daily life might still…

neuroClues wants to put high speed eye tracking tech in the doctor’s office

April 30, 2024

The eyes aren’t just a window into the soul; tracking saccades can help doctors pick up a range of brain health issues. That’s why French-Belgian medtech startup neuroClues is building accessible, high-speed eye-tracking technology that incorporates AI-driven analysis. It wants to make it easier for healthcare service providers to use eye tracking to support the […]

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NIST launches a new platform to assess generative AI

April 29, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops and tests tech for the U.S. government, corporations and the broader public, on Monday announced the launch of NIST GenAI, a new program spearheaded by NIST to assess generative AI technologies, including text- and image-generating AI. A platform designed to […]

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The Download: inside the US defense tech aid package, and how AI is improving vegan cheese

April 29, 2024
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. Here’s the defense tech at the center of US aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan After weeks of drawn-out congressional debate over how much the United States should spend on conflicts abroad, President…

Here’s the defense tech at the center of US aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan

April 26, 2024
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. After weeks of drawn-out congressional debate over how much the United States should spend on conflicts abroad, President Joe Biden signed a $95.3 billion aid package into…