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What is the chance your plane will be hit by space debris?

“We have done some work for some small-satellite manufacturers and basically, their major problem is that the tanks get down,” Beck says. “For larger satellites, around 800 kilos, we would expect maybe... Read more »

EmTech AI 2025: How AI is revolutionizing science

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 »

The Download: how AI really works, and phasing out animal testing

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Chinese hackers used Anthropic’s AI to conduct an espionage campaign   It automated a number of attacks on corporations and... Read more »

These technologies could help put a stop to animal testing

In the same vein, others have been working on creating model versions of organs—and even embryos—in the lab. By growing groups of cells into tiny 3D structures, scientists can study how organs... Read more »

OpenAI’s new LLM exposes the secrets of how AI really works

“As these AI systems get more powerful, they’re going to get integrated more and more into very important domains,” Leo Gao, a research scientist at OpenAI, told MIT Technology Review in an... Read more »

Google Deepmind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3

The researchers claim that SIMA 2 can carry out a range of more complex tasks inside virtual worlds, figure out how to solve certain challenges by itself, and chat with its users.... Read more »

The Download: AI to measure pain, and how to deal with conspiracy theorists

It was during the pandemic. They suddenly started posting daily on Facebook about the dangers of covid vaccines and masks, warning of an attempt to control us. As a science and technology... Read more »

Google is still aiming for its “moonshot” 2030 energy goals

They spoke about the tech giant’s growing energy demand and what sort of technologies the company is looking to to help meet it. In case you weren’t able to join us, let’s... Read more »

The Download: how to survive a conspiracy theory, and moldy cities

—Mike Rothschild is a journalist and an expert on the growth and impact of conspiracy theories and disinformation. It’s something of a familiar cycle by now: Tragedy hits; rampant misinformation and conspiracy... Read more »

Improving VMware migration workflows with agentic AI

This is all happening amid escalating pressure to innovate faster and more cost-effectively to meet the demands of an AI-first future. As enterprises prepare for that inevitability, they are facing compute demands... Read more »