Yet realizing measurable business value from AI-powered applications requires a new game plan. Legacy application architectures simply aren’t capable of meeting the high demands of AI-enhanced applications. Rather, the time is now... Read more »

Steven Niederer, a biomedical engineer at the Alan Turing Institute and Imperial College London, has a cardboard box filled with 3D-printed hearts. Each of them is modeled on the real heart of... Read more »

Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit a new high, reaching 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024. This year is also on track to be the warmest on record, with temperatures through September hitting 1.54... Read more »

Twinning It’s all very well to generate virtual body parts, but the human body functions as a whole. That’s why the grand plan for digital twins involves replicas of entire people. “Long... Read more »

In a warming world, migratory birds face many existential threats. Scientists rely on a combination of methods to track the timing and location of their migrations, but each has shortcomings. And there’s... Read more »

Their findings, shared exclusively with MIT Technology Review, show a worrying trend: AI’s data practices risk concentrating power overwhelmingly in the hands of a few dominant technology companies.  In the early 2010s,... Read more »

In the late 1800s, scientists realized that migratory birds made species-specific nocturnal flight calls—“acoustic fingerprints.” When microphones became commercially available in the 1950s, scientists began recording birds at night. Farnsworth led some... Read more »