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Bangladesh’s garment-making industry is getting greener

Water reclaimed at the factory’s sewage treatment plant is used in the facility’s restrooms.ZAKIR HOSSAIN CHOWDHURY It’s a good start, but Bangladesh’s $40 billion garment industry still has a long way to... Read more »

MIT Technology Review’s most popular stories of 2025

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. Understanding AI’s energy use was a huge global conversation in 2025 as hundreds of millions of people began... Read more »

The paints, coatings, and chemicals making the world a cooler place

Modern approaches, as demonstrated everywhere from California supermarket rooftops to Japan’s Expo 2025 pavilion, go even further. Normally, if the sun is up and pumping in heat, surfaces can’t get cooler than... Read more »

AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025

The key to R1’s success was distillation, a technique that makes AI models more efficient. It works by getting a bigger model to tutor a smaller model: You run the teacher model... Read more »

Four bright spots in climate news in 2025

Back in 2015, the battery storage industry had installed only a fraction of a gigawatt of battery storage capacity across the US. That year, it set a seemingly bold target of adding... Read more »

Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone

What put the lab on the map, Deibert says, was its 2009 report “Tracking GhostNet,” which uncovered a digital espionage network in China that had breached offices of foreign embassies and diplomats... Read more »

Researchers are getting organoids pregnant with human embryos

Only none of it is happening inside a body. These images were captured in a Beijing laboratory, inside a microfluidic chip, as scientists watched the scene unfold. A transparent microfluidic chip used... Read more »

How I learned to stop worrying and love AI slop

@digitalpersons AI video technology is evolving so quickly that even for creative professionals, there is a lot to experiment with. Daryl Anselmo, a creative director turned digital artist, has been experimenting with... Read more »

How social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism

Put your math hats on for a minute, and let’s take a look at what this beef from mid-October was about. It’s a perfect example of what’s wrong with AI right now.... Read more »

This company is developing gene therapies for muscle growth, erectile dysfunction, and “radical longevity”

It’s debatable whether healthy people should be exposed to these risks, says Fernandez Lynch. The technology “still has serious questions about its safety and effectiveness,” even for people with life-threatening diseases, she... Read more »