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MIT Technology Review Narrated
Welcome to MIT Technology Review Narrated, the home for the very best of our journalism in audio. Each week we will share one of our most ambitious stories, from print and online, narrated for us by real voice actors. Expect big themes, thought-provoking topics, and sharp analysis, all backed by our...
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Is this the electric grid of the future?
In Nebraska, a publicly owned utility deftly tackles the challenges of delivering on reliability, affordability, and sustainability.
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The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures
Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.
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How to fix the internet
If we want online discourse to improve, we need to move beyond the big platforms.
This story was written by Katie Notopoulos and narrated...
Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow
As climate change fuels increasingly erratic weather, scientists need a better read on snowpack temperature to understand when water will reach reserv...
What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert)
Mike Rothschild has spent years studying the rise of QAnon and antivaccine conspiracism. After his house in Altadena, California, burned down, he foun...
Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.
Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process.
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Supershoes are reshaping distance running
Kenyan runners, like many others, are grappling with the impact of expensive, high-performance shoes.
This story was written by Jonathan...
How Antarctica’s history of isolation is ending—thanks to Starlink
The seventh continent has always been a bleak, unconnected place. Elon Musk’s satellite internet is changing that, and people want to see what life is...
Inside the strange limbo facing millions of IVF embryos
Frozen embryos are filling storage banks around the world. It's a struggle to know what to do with them.
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How to measure the returns on R&D spending
Forget the glorious successes of past breakthroughs—the real
justification for research investment is what we get for our money. Here’s what eco...
How do AI models generate videos?
With powerful video generation tools now in the hands of more people than ever, let's take a look at how they work.
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What’s next for AI and math
The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on huma...
How AI can help supercharge creativity
Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipity...
Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind”
Autoencoders are letting us peer into the black box of artificial intelligence. They could help us create AI that is better understood, and more easil...
How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
With a new reasoning model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek managed to turn restrictions into innovation.
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Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming
Agents could make it easier and cheaper for criminals to hack systems at scale. We need to be ready.
This story was written by Rhiannon W...
How to run an LLM on your laptop
It’s now possible to run useful models from the safety and comfort of your own computer. Here’s how.
This story was written by Grace Huck...
Can nuclear power really fuel the rise of AI?
Tech giants are looking for more energy, but building new reactors takes time.
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GPT-5 is here. Now what?
The much-hyped release makes several enhancements to the ChatGPT user experience. But it’s still far short of AGI.
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AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge.
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Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?
We’re starting to give AI agents real autonomy, and we’re not prepared for what could happen next.
This story was written by Grace Huckin...
AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose.
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This rare earth metal shows us the future of our planet’s resources
The story of neodymium reveals many of the challenges we’ll likely face across the supply chain in the coming century and beyond.
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The Biggest Questions: How did life begin?
AI is helping chemists unpick the mysteries around the origins of life and detect signs of it on other worlds.
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The tech industry can’t agree on what open-source AI means. That’s a problem.
What counts as 'open-source AI'? The answer could determine who gets to shape the future of the technology.
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How did China come to dominate the world of electric cars?
From generous government subsidies to support for lithium batteries, here are the keys to understanding how China managed to build a world-leading ind...
Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business
In China, people are seeking help from AI-generated avatars to process their grief after a family member passes away.
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The surprising barrier that keeps us from building the housing we need
Sure, there's too much red tape, but there is another reason building anything is so expensive: the construction industry's "awful" productivity.
How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth
AI-powered BaZi analysis has become the new oracle for a disillusioned generation seeking answers.
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Google, Amazon and the problem with Big Tech’s climate claims
How companies like Amazon and Google reach their emissions goals is more important than how fast.
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Congress used to evaluate emerging technologies. Let’s do it again.
A look back at the Office of Technology Assessment, the Congressional think tank that detected lies and tested tech.
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What’s next for our privacy?
The US still has no federal privacy law. But recent enforcement actions against data brokers may offer some new protections for Americans’ personal in...
How Trump’s tariffs could drive up the cost of batteries, EVs, and more
The incoming administration’s hostile trade plans threaten to slow the shift to cleaner industries, boost inflation, and stall the economy.
The second wave of AI coding is here
A string of startups are racing to build models that can produce better and better software. They claim it’s the shortest path to AGI.
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Quantum computing is taking on its biggest challenge: noise
For a while researchers thought they’d have to make do with noisy, error-prone systems, at least in the near term. That’s starting to change.
Will we ever trust robots?
If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes?
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Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work.
People are spending thousands of dollars on unproven exosome therapies for hair loss, skin aging, and acne, as well as more serious conditions like lo...
The quest to figure out farming on Mars
If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way.
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How tracking animal movement may save the planet
Researchers have been dreaming of an Internet of Animals. They’re getting closer to monitoring 100,000 creatures—and revealing hidden facets of our sh...
Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today
An intelligent digital agent could be a companion for life—and other predictions for the next 125 years.
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