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Meet the 2023 Innovators Under 35

MIT Technology Review’s 2023 list of 35 Innovators Under 35 is now live. This annual list recognizes young entrepreneurs, researchers, and scientists working in some of the most promising areas of technology... Read more »

Investing in holistic innovation

Enterprises need to constantly look for ways to improve and expand what they offer to the marketplace. For example, Sameena Shah, managing director of AI research at JPMorgan Chase, says the company’s... Read more »

The Download: Google’s anti-censorship tool, and China’s critical minerals

Zeyi Yang, our China reporter, recently talked to Seaver Wang, co-director of the climate and energy team at think tank the Breakthrough Institute, to find out more about the role critical minerals... Read more »

How China hopes to secure its supply chain for critical minerals

Zimbabwe instituted some export restrictions on unrefined ore. They wanted to encourage international financial investment into refineries in the country to export refined products to benefit their people more. And Indonesia did... Read more »

Google has a new tool to outsmart authoritarian internet censorship

Importantly, during crackdowns, the SDK will make it easier for developers from different companies to work on the same code and enable them to run updates more efficiently, allowing for quicker responses... Read more »

The Download: introducing our TR35 innovators

How do you know what’s coming next, especially with a topic as fast-moving as technology? One way is to focus on the technology itself, as we do every year with our 10... Read more »

2023 Innovator of the Year: As AI models are released into the wild, Sharon Li wants to ensure they’re safe

This did not happen because the robot was programmed to do harm. It was because the robot was overly confident that the boy’s finger was a chess piece.   The incident is a... Read more »

She was a semi-pro Go player but learned that biology is even harder

ALEX GAGNE The result of her survey, published in January, is an “atlas” of how individual transcription factors affect the identity of stem cells. Joung says she has seen neurons, beating heart... Read more »

Building ethical thinking into technology

Okay, so that last one is just a nightmare scenario courtesy of the AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who posed it at an EmTech Digital event of ours earlier this year. But it... Read more »

How software that tracks covid variants could protect us against future outbreaks

The tool, which has been accessible online since 2021, now records more than 15 million viral sequences, and scientists add to it daily. It helps them and public health officials discover new... Read more »