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This company is trying to make a biodegradable alternative to spandex

“True circularity has to start with raw materials,” says Peña. “We talk about circularity across many industries, but for textiles, we must address what we’re using at the source.” Engineered from recombinant... Read more »

A new Microsoft chip could lead to more stable quantum computers

For many years, theorists and experimentalists alike have been intrigued by the idea of creating topological qubits, which are constructed through mathematical twists and turns and have protection from errors essentially baked... Read more »

The Download: selling via AI, and Congress testing tech

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Electricity demand is set to soar globallyOn current trends, we’ll add the equivalent of Japan’s entire consumption each... Read more »

Your most important customer may be AI

For example, Meta’s Llama model may perceive your brand as exciting and reliable, whereas OpenAI’s ChatGPT may view it as exciting but not necessarily reliable. Share of Model asks different models many... Read more »

Congress used to evaluate emerging technologies. Let’s do it again.

A man administers a lie detector test to a job applicant in 1976. A 1983 report from the OTA debunked the efficacy of polygraphs.LIBRARY OF CONGRESS No doubt independent expertise still exists.... Read more »

Roundtables: Generative AI Search and the Changing Internet

Speakers: Mat Honan, editor in chief, and Niall Firth, executive editor. Generative AI search, one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025, is ushering a new era of the internet. Despite fewer... Read more »

The Download: 4G on the moon, and parenting in the digital age

Join editor in chief Mat Honan and executive editor Niall Firth at 1.30pm ET today for a subscriber-only Roundtable conversation exploring how AI will alter search. Sign up here to attend, and... Read more »

How to have a child in the digital age

But how do we retain control over our bodies when corporations and the medical establishment have access to our most personal information? What happens when humans stop relying on their village, or... Read more »

Inside China’s electric-vehicle-to-humanoid-robot pivot

Now our intrepid China reporter, Caiwei Chen, has identified a new trend unfolding within China’s tech scene: Companies that were dominant in electric vehicles are betting big on translating that success into... Read more »

Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon

Point-to-point radio communications, which need a clear line of sight between transmitting and receiving antennas, have always been a backbone of both surface communications and the link back to Earth, starting with... Read more »