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Are high gas prices good news for EVs? It’s complicated.

Then again, maybe that won’t quite do the trick: One survey from Cox Automotive found that most US consumers would consider switching to an EV or hybrid if gas prices hit $6... Read more »

The snow gods: How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app

Meteorologists live in cities because that’s where the jobs are. They don’t live in small mountain towns.  That’s what was missing in the industry. When I moved to Tahoe, in 2006, I... Read more »

Roundtables: The Next Era of Space Exploration

Listen to the session or watch below Whether it’s the race to find life on Mars, the campaign to outsmart killer asteroids, or the quest to make the moon a permanent home... Read more »

Why this battery company is pivoting to AI

The company also shifted its chemistry focus, and in 2022 it announced a battery with a silicon anode rather than a lithium metal one. That shift could help make the battery easier... Read more »

This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math

And when Charton solved the Turán problem with PatternBoost, he was still at Meta. “I had literally thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of machines I could run it on,” he says. “It... Read more »

The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns

This is our latest story to be turned into an MIT Technology Review Narrated podcast, which we’re publishing each week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Just navigate to MIT Technology Review Narrated on either platform, and follow us to get all... Read more »

Agentic commerce runs on truth and context

Product truth: If the catalog is inconsistent, an agent’s choices will look arbitrary (“the wrong shirt,” “the wrong size,” “the wrong material”), and trust collapses quickly. Payee truth: Agentic commerce expands beyond... Read more »

The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war

On the lighter side, AI agents are now going viral online. OpenAI hired the creator of OpenClaw, a popular AI agent. Meta snapped up Moltbook, where AI agents seem to ponder their... Read more »

Exclusive eBook: Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?

We’re starting to give AI agents real autonomy, but are we prepared for what could happen next? This subscriber-only eBook explores this and angles from experts, such as “If we continue on... Read more »

This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain

Fahy was involved from the time the samples were taken. “We had Greg Fahy on the phone coordinating the whole thing, [including] where the biopsies were taken,” says Nick Llewellyn, who oversees... Read more »