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The Download: our 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2025

Each year, we spend months researching and discussing which technologies will make the cut for our 10 Breakthrough Technologies list. We try to highlight a mix of items that reflect innovations happening... Read more »

AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it

Don’t panic, is Pichai’s message. He argues that even in the age of AI Overviews, people will still want to click through and go deeper for many types of searches. “The underlying... Read more »

Driving into the future

But the real secret of the TR10 is what we leave off the list. It is hard to think of another industry, aside from maybe entertainment, that has as much of a... Read more »

Roundtables: Unveiling the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025

The latest iteration of a legacy Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events... Read more »

The Download: feeding the world with poop, and 2024’s performing stories

Is it possible to really understand someone else’s mind? November 2023 Technically speaking, neuroscientists have been able to read your mind for decades. It’s not easy, mind you. First, you must lie... Read more »

Green steel: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

Hybrit, a technology developed by  the steelmaker SSAB, the mining company LKAB, and the energy company Vattenfall, uses a similar process to make green steel. LKAB is now constructing a plant in... Read more »

Robotaxis: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

If you live in certain cities in America or China, you’ve probably spotted driverless cars dropping off passengers. Perhaps you’ve even ridden in one yourself. That’s a radical change from even three... Read more »

Stem-cell therapies that work: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

WHO California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Neurona Therapeutics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals WHEN 5 years A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from embryos created through in vitro fertilization. These cells, theoretically able... Read more »

Fast-learning robots: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

Now, roboticists have made major breakthroughs in that pursuit. One was figuring out how to combine different sorts of data and then make it all useful and legible to a robot. Take... Read more »

Cleaner jet fuel: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

All the world’s planes consumed roughly 100 billion gallons of jet fuel as they crisscrossed the planet in 2024. Only about 0.5% of it was something other than fossil fuel. That could... Read more »