Robust growth, high digital penetration  The role of AI governance will become even more significant as Asia’s digital economy continues to grow. While a tech slowdown has dogged the U.S.—with more than 91,000... Read more »

Data is emerging on the impact of digital technologies on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and their importance is clear. The World Economic Forum (WEF) and Accenture say digital technologies can help the... Read more »

“I independently made my money, as opposed to say, inherited an emerald mine.” —Halli, a recently laid-off Twitter worker, fires back at his former boss Elon Musk, who accused Halli of shirking... Read more »

When the crackdown on video games happened in 2021, the social media industry was definitely spooked, because many Chinese people were already comparing short-video apps like Douyin to video games in terms... Read more »

There was reason to worry. In 2016, after Peter Thiel, one of Altman’s mentors, expressed interest in possibly getting age-defeating blood transfusions, he was mocked in the media as a vampire on... Read more »

Even then, patients won’t get the treatments if insurers and governments balk at paying. It’s a real risk. For instance, a different gene therapy for beta-thalassemia, developed by Bluebird Bio, was pulled... Read more »

In late January, a geothermal power startup began conducting experiments where it pumped water deep below the desert floor of northern Nevada.  The results—which MIT Technology Review is reporting exclusively—suggest that Houston-based... Read more »

The crust stretched, thinned, and broke into blocks that tilted, forming mountains on the high side while filling in and flattening the basins with sediments and water, as John McPhee memorably described... Read more »

Tiffany and Cartier are not the first brands to team up with Snap’s AR. Louis Vuitton just partnered with the artist Yayoi Kusama to create a filter on Snap that envelops landmarks... Read more »