December 26, 2025

MIT Technology Review’s most popular stories of 2025

It’s been a busy and productive year here at MIT Technology Review. We published magazine issues on power, creativity, innovation, bodies, relationships, and security. We hosted 14 exclusive virtual conversations with our editors and outside experts in our subscriber-only series, Roundtables, and held two events on MIT’s campus. And we published hundreds of articles online,…

Downey’s Dream Cars: Robert Downey Jr. targets EV skeptics in new series

June 21, 2023

Marvel retiree Robert Downey Jr. has a new show: Downey’s Dream Cars. It follows the millionaire as he seeks to reconcile two of his hobbies, classic car collecting and climate change mitigation. The Iron Man actor has led with this sort of juxtaposition before; when he kicked off his climate-focused venture firm Footprint Coalition in […]

Downey’s Dream Cars: Robert Downey Jr. targets EV skeptics in new series by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

Rivian’s latest acquisition aims to make EV route planning better

June 21, 2023

Rivian acquired the company behind ABetterRouteplanner, a popular route planning app used by EV drivers, CEO RJ Scaringe confirmed Wednesday. Scaringe didn’t disclose financial terms of the deal to buy Iternio, the Swedish company that developed A Better Routeplanner, otherwise known as ABRP.  The acquisition was first reported earlier this month by Electrek. Reuters confirmed […]

Rivian’s latest acquisition aims to make EV route planning better by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Two companies can now sell lab-grown chicken in the US

June 21, 2023
The first cultivated, or lab-grown, meat has been approved for sale in the US. Two California-based companies, Upside Foods and Eat Just, received grants of inspection from the United States Department of Agriculture today. It’s the final approval needed for each company to begin commercial US production and sales.   Animal agriculture makes up nearly 15%…

Salesforce (CRM): Should Investors Buy This Stock Now?

June 21, 2023
Software company Salesforce (CRM) is largely incorporating AI into its operations. Looking at AI’s potential after the launch of ChatGPT, should investors consider buying CRM now? Let’s look at its…