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.
Here are MIT Technology Review’s best-performing stories of 2024
Another year is coming to a close, so let’s look back at the MIT Technology Review stories that resonated most with you, our readers. We published hundreds of stories in 2024, about AI, climate tech, biotech, robotics, space, and more. There were six new issues of our magazine, on themes including food, play, and hidden…
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.
Another ’30 Under 30′ Recipient Was Arrested For Fraud—And She’s Not the Only One. Here Are 6 Other Former Honorees Who Turned Out to Be Felons.
From promising prodigies to notorious felons, these are the most infamous former “30 Under 30” honorees who went from celebrated entrepreneurs to convicted criminals.
‘I Expect More’: Here’s Why Some Fans Are ‘Disappointed’ With Taylor Swift’s $40 Eras Tour Book
They’re even calling it “The Errors Tour Book.”