Campaign URL
Copy
Twitter
0
tweets
Translate
English
العربية
Afrikaans
беларуская мова
български
català
中文（简体）
中文（繁體）
Hrvatski
Česky
Dansk
eesti keel
Nederlands
Suomi
Français
Deutsch
Ελληνική
हिन्दी
Magyar
Gaeilge
Indonesia
íslenska
Italiano
日本語
ភាសាខ្មែរ
한국어
македонски јазик
بهاس ملايو
Malti
Norsk
Polski
Português
Português - Portugal
Română
Русский
Español
Kiswahili
Svenska
עברית
Lietuvių
latviešu
slovenčina
slovenščina
српски
தமிழ்
ภาษาไทย
Türkçe
Filipino
украї́нська
Tiếng Việt
This Week in Technology Review
Everything you need to know about the technology topics you care most about, delivered to your inbox each week.
Everything you need to know about the technology topics you care most about, delivered to your inbox each week.
Week of February 18
View in the browser
View in the browser
Business Impact
A “second skin” for fruit and veg could make them last twice as long
We throw away a third of all our fruit and vegetables. California-based firm Apeel wants to change that with a natural coating that keeps produce fresher for longer.
Connectivity
The first privately funded trip to the moon is about to launch
After failing to claim the Lunar X Prize (which, to be fair, everyone did), the Israeli firm SpaceIL could have a rover on lunar soil in a little over a month.
Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked
More and more security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms, and some are fundamental to the way they were built.
Explainer: What is quantum communication?
Researchers and companies are creating ultra-secure communication networks that could form the basis of a quantum internet. This is how it works.
Why the future of satellite internet might be decided in rural Alaska
Service in the rural areas of the state is abysmal, which makes it the perfect place to test next-generation satellite internet.
Intelligent Machines
The technology behind OpenAI’s fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained
The language model can write like a human, but it doesn’t have a clue what it’s saying.
AI is reinventing the way we invent
The biggest impact of artificial intelligence will be to help humans make discoveries we couldn’t make on our own.
An AI that writes convincing prose risks mass-producing fake news
Fed with billions of words, this algorithm creates convincing articles and shows how AI could be used to fool people on a mass scale.
Rewriting Life
In China, some parents seek an edge with genetic testing for tots
Questionable DNA “talent” tests find a market in up-and-coming Shenzhen.
What if you could diagnose diseases with a tampon?
Women’s health care is often treated as all about reproduction. Some “femtech” startups are exploring the innovations that get overlooked as a result.
Popular this week
Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked
More and more security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms, and some are fundamental to the way they were built.
Lab-grown meat could be worse for the environment than beef
Russia is going to ban soldiers from using smartphones and social media on duty
Machine learning is contributing to a “reproducibility crisis” within science
Watch a harpoon successfully spear a piece of space junk
AI is reinventing the way we invent
The biggest impact of artificial intelligence will be to help humans make discoveries we couldn’t make on our own.
Pricing algorithms can learn to collude with each other to raise prices
The technology behind OpenAI’s fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained
The language model can write like a human, but it doesn’t have a clue what it’s saying.
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to fire bullets into an asteroid
You received this newsletter because you subscribed with the email address:
<<Email Address>>
edit preferences
unsubscribe
MIT Technology Review
One Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
