Small Businesses Are Struggling in This Densely Populated U.S. State — and Thriving in These Others
The U.S. is averaging 430,000 new business applications per month in 2024.
The Download: AI tracking birds, and a pig kidney transplant
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. AI is changing how we study bird migration In a warming world, migratory birds face many existential threats. Scientists rely on a combination of methods to track the timing and location of their…
U.S. Economy Adds More Jobs Than Expected—But Unemployment Is Higher Than Expected, Too
Economists predicted that 214,000 new jobs would be created in November.
Stop Blaming Remote Work for Your Productivity Woes — 5 Signs of a Productive Office Culture
It doesn’t matter if you work from a cubicle, couch or cafe — if the (remote) office culture is broken, productivity will suffer.
Unsolved Murder of UHC Exec Causes Panicked Health Insurance Companies to Take Down Website Leadership Pages
The shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has prompted several large companies to take a harder look at their security measures.
The Download: China’s mineral ban, and three technologies to watch
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. What China’s critical mineral ban means for the US This week, China banned exports of several critical minerals to the US, marking the latest move in an escalating series of tit-for-tat trade restrictions…
Here’s Why We Walked Away From Half of Our Customers — and How It Actually Helped Us Grow
Learn why my co-founder and I chose to walk away from half of our customers to achieve focused growth.
3 things that didn’t make the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025 list
Next month, MIT Technology Review will unveil the 2025 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Every year, our newsroom looks across the fields we cover for technologies that are having a true breakthrough moment. This annual package highlights the technologies that we think matter most right now. We define ‘breakthrough’ in a few ways—perhaps there’s been…
Donating embryos for research is surprisingly complex
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. There’s a new film about IVF out on Netflix. And “everyone in the field [of reproductive medicine] has watched it,” according to one embryologist I spoke to recently.…
What China’s critical mineral ban means for the US
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. This week, China banned exports of several critical minerals to the US, marking the latest move in an escalating series of tit-for-tat trade restrictions between the…
This 28-Year-Old Entrepreneur With Down Syndrome Runs the World’s Largest Sock Company. Here’s How He Started It.
The eight-year-old company recently hit a record number of orders.