December 24, 2024

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…

Varda Space Industries finally gets approval to bring its drug manufacturing spacecraft back to Earth

February 14, 2024

Varda Space Industries has received long-awaited approval from regulators to return its first spacecraft to Earth — and with it, a batch of pharmaceutical crystals manufactured on orbit. Varda’s Winnebago capsule has been stuck in limbo for months. The company launched the spacecraft on a SpaceX Transporter mission eight months ago, with the plan to […]

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Largest text-to-speech AI model yet shows ’emergent abilities’

February 14, 2024

Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent” qualities improving its ability to speak even complex sentences naturally. The breakthrough could be what the technology needs to escape the uncanny valley. These models were always going to grow and improve, but the researchers specifically hoped to see […]

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7 Proven Strategies to Rehabilitate Your Shattered Online Image

February 14, 2024
Rehabilitating a shattered online image is more than just fixing things — it’s about taking back control over your story. You need to face the harsh reality, make a heartfelt apology, dive into online spaces, find lessons in tough times, rewrite your story sincerely, spread positivity online — and embrace change.

TechCrunch is heading to MWC. We want to hear about your startup

February 14, 2024

It’s [checks calendar] a week and a half until Mobile World Congress 2024 [mild panic creeps in], and TechCrunch will be returning to Barcelona once again for the big phone show [soothing memories of tapas past]. The event is always a big one for big telecos, phonemakers and European startups alike. As ever, we’re particularly […]

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As Threads deprioritizes politics, Bluesky’s CEO touts custom feeds and user choice in social media

February 14, 2024

Meta is in hot water after announcing plans to remove politics from its recommendations across Instagram and Threads, its new Twitter-like app for text-based posts. That leaves a window of opportunity for the startup Bluesky, whose CEO Jay Graber recently explained that Meta’s decision is emblematic of the types of problems that could emerge when […]

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