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,…

This little wearable is designed to detect blood flow to the brain

June 13, 2023

STAT Health calls the human ear a “biometric gold mine.” The startup, which emerged out of stealth this morning, is talking specifically about cerebral blood flow (CBF). That’s pretty much what it sounds like: the blood supply to the brain measured over a specific length of time. A lack of blood flow to the brain […]

This little wearable is designed to detect blood flow to the brain by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Wherobots is building a data platform to treat spatial data as a “first-class citizen”

June 13, 2023

Many companies collect an enormous amount of geospatial and time data, but they’re unable to unlock enormous value from that information due to a lack of an easy-to-use, dedicated geospatial database platform. Scottsdale, Arizona-based Wherobots aims to change that with its spatial compute and AI engine, which allows users to develop geospatial analytics applications and […]

Wherobots is building a data platform to treat spatial data as a “first-class citizen” by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: inaccurate welfare algorithms, and training AI for free

June 13, 2023
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. An algorithm intended to reduce poverty might disqualify people in need The news: An algorithm funded by the World Bank to determine which families should get financial assistance in Jordan likely excludes people…

Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint

June 13, 2023

Music streaming giant Spotify is facing a fine of around €5 million ($5.4M) in Sweden years after it was accused of breaching the data access rights of users in the European Union by not providing full information about personal data it processes in response to individual requests. While the size of the fine is unlikely […]

Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Striveworks snaps up first funding of $33M to build tools for machine learning operations

June 13, 2023

MLOps, or DevOps for those working with machine learning models, has seen a boom of interest in the last year, and that should come as no surprise: organizations want to bring more machine learning to bear in their data science stacks, but that requires building and training models, cleaning up data and making sure they […]

Striveworks snaps up first funding of $33M to build tools for machine learning operations by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Match launches new live in-app event called ’72 Hours’

June 13, 2023

Match is introducing an unconventional way of online dating to its users in order to promote more intentional connections. The dating app announced Tuesday a new time-sensitive feature called “72 Hours,” an in-app weekly experience where users have three days to message potential matches before the chats disappear. During the designated time frame, members can […]

Match launches new live in-app event called ’72 Hours’ by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch