July 29, 2025

Exclusive: A record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that’s over 30 years old

A baby boy born over the weekend holds the new record for the “oldest baby.” Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived on July 26, developed from an embryo that had been in storage for 30 and a half years. “We had a rough birth but we are both doing well now,” says Lindsey Pierce, his mother. “He…

The pain is real. The painkillers are virtual reality.

November 17, 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. I hate needles. I am a grown woman who owns a Buzzy, a vibrating, bee-shaped device you press against your arm to confuse your nerves and…

Instafest now lets you create a music festival poster through a playlist link

November 17, 2023

Instafest, the app which went viral last year before Spotify Wrapped was officially unveiled, now lets you create a music festival poster based on artists that you have in a particular playlist. The app’s developer,  Anshay Saboo, has added more themes and customization options as well. Users can create a music festival poster through a […]

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Under $5 Gems: 3 Top Oil & Gas Stocks to Consider

November 17, 2023
Fortified by significant oil and gas demand, the energy sector presents an unmatched opportunity to enhance portfolio returns. Given this backdrop, quality oil and gas stocks Santos Limited (SSLZY), Ultrapar…

Text-to-image AI models can be tricked into generating disturbing images

November 17, 2023
Popular text-to-image AI models can be prompted to ignore their safety filters and generate disturbing images. A group of researchers managed to get both Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s DALL-E 2’s text-to-image models to disregard their policies and create images of naked people, dismembered bodies, and other violent and sexual scenarios.  Their work, which…

The Biggest Questions: What is death?

November 17, 2023
Just as birth certificates note the time we enter the world, death certificates mark the moment we exit it. This practice reflects traditional notions about life and death as binaries. We are here until, suddenly, like a light switched off, we are gone.  But while this idea of death is pervasive, evidence is building that…

Yet another former Silicon Valley darling is convicted of investor fraud

November 17, 2023

This year will be remembered for a lot of things. Among them could be the growing number of stars in the startup world who were later convicted for defrauding investors.  Roughly six months after Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes headed to jail for four counts of wire fraud, and just two weeks after Sam Bankman-Fried was […]

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Indian central bank tightening consumer loans curb to impact startups

November 17, 2023

India’s central bank has enforced several measures to cool down high growth in consumer credit in a move that will impact consumer spending and many startups in the South Asian market, industry executives said. The Reserve Bank of India raised risk weights on unsecured personal loans, credit card, consumer durable loans by banks and non-banking financial companies […]

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GM absorbs commercial EV unit BrightDrop, CEO is out

November 17, 2023

BrightDrop, the commercial EV subsidiary of General Motors that launched in 2021, is being swallowed up by its parent company. GM said Thursday that BrightDrop — a “startup” that spun out of the automaker’s Global Innovation organization to become a wholly owned subsidiary — will become part of GM. BrightDrop CEO Travis Katz, who was […]

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Microsoft Ignite 2023: Copilot AI expansions, custom chips and all the other announcements

November 16, 2023

Microsoft’s Ignite 2023 event came with a lot of updates, and AI product reveals and expansions were front and center as the company laid out its updated vision for IT professionals. As our own Devin Coldewey wrote in October, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made it clear that the company is all-in on AI, and […]

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