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Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones

“Instead of a 911 call [that triggers the drone], it’s an alarm call,” says Keith Kauffman, a former police chief who now directs Flock’s drone program. “It’s still the same type of... Read more »

The Download: growing threats to vulnerable languages, and fact-checking Trump’s medical claims

The AI Hype Index: Cracking the chatbot code Millions of us use chatbots every day, even though we don’t really know how they work or how using them affects us. In a... Read more »

Trump is pushing leucovorin as a treatment for autism. What is it?

That meant that more people met the criteria for an autism diagnosis. Lerner points out that there is also far more awareness of the condition today than there was several decades ago.... Read more »

Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

And yet, the money pours in. Commonwealth raised over $800 million in funding earlier this year. And now it’s got two big customers signed on to buy electricity from this future power... Read more »

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

Iwuala, who now works as a professional translator between English and Igbo, said the users doing the most damage are inexperienced and see AI translations as a way to quickly increase the... Read more »

Roundtables: The Future of Birth Control

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 »

Trump is pushing leucovorin as a new treatment for autism. What is it?

That meant that more people met the criteria for an autism diagnosis. Lerner points out that there is also far more awareness of the condition today than there was several decades ago.... Read more »

The Download: accidental AI relationships, and the future of contraception

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Secret Service agents dismantled a giant operation to cripple cell networksThey say it’s likely it was... Read more »

The AI Hype Index: Cracking the chatbot code

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry.... Read more »

It’s surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot

To conduct their study, the authors analyzed the subreddit’s top-ranking 1,506 posts between December 2024 and August 2025. They found that the main topics discussed revolved around people’s dating and romantic experiences... Read more »