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#General #Development #Mobile Development #Cloud & DevOps #Cybersecurity & Privacy #AI & Data Science #Hardware & Gadgets #Design & UXRoundtables: Meet the 2025 Innovator of the Year
Every year, MIT Technology Review selects one individual whose work we admire to recognize as Innovator of the Year. For 2025, we chose Sneha Goenka, who designed the computations behindthe world’s fastest whole-genome sequencing method. Thanks to her work, physicians can now sequence a patient’s genome and diagnose a genetic condition in less than eight…
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Why One VC Thinks Quantum Is a Bigger Unlock Than AGI
Venture capitalist Alexa von Tobel is ready to bet on quantum computing—starting with hardware.
‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI
Artificial intelligence is making steady advances into subtitling but, say its practitioners, it’s a vital service that needs a human to make it workIs artificial intelligence going to destroy the SDH [subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing] industry? It’s a valid question because, while SDH is the default subtitle format on most platforms, the humans behind it – as with all creative industries – are being...
Australia may have to choose between a Chinese TikTok and one owned by Trump’s billionaire backers
Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp’s ‘worrying dominance’ in Australian mediaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWould you rather a Chinese-owned TikTok or one run by a consortium of Trump-supporting billionaires? That’s the choice Australia is being asked to consider.The Trump administration has outlined...
Tariffs on talent? Trumps’s visa fees threaten tech’s most prized employees
The president’s deal on visas could upend Silicon Valley, and will a TikTok purchase finally go through?Hello, welcome to TechScape. I’m writing to you from a plane back to a United States in uproar. This week’s tech news is all about Donald Trump’s deals: with China, with the UK, and with the US tech industry, which is facing steep fines for its favorite visa.Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship...
All Amazon Fresh stores in UK to close
Company to shut 19 shops and convert five to Whole Foods outlets, after concept of stores without tills fails to catch onAmazon is preparing to shut down all of its Amazon Fresh stores in the UK, just four years after the US tech company launched its first grocery shop in London.The company plans to close all 19 Fresh stores, with plans to convert five of these into Whole Foods Market shops, the US organic grocery...
The Download: AI’s retracted papers problem
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers The news:Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. In one such study, researchers…
‘It’s prime time for rapture talk’: TikTok gets its first ‘world is ending’ moment
Evangelical Christians on #RaptureTok are warning others of doom on 23 or 24 September – and sharing how they’re preppingIf you believe a vocal cohort of evangelical Christians on social media, consider Tuesday 23 September – or maybe Wednesday 24 September – a wrap on this whole society thing. For the first time, the rapture is playing out on TikTok.Believers have taken to the app to disclose their preparation for...
How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’
The Signal Foundation president recalls where she was when she heard Trump cabinet officials had added a journalist to a highly sensitive group chat.
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers
Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by MIT Technology Review, raise questions about how reliable AI tools are at evaluating scientific research and could complicate efforts by countries and industries seeking to invest in AI tools for scientists. AI search…
Pixel 10 Pro XL review: Google’s superphone gets AI and magnetic upgrades
Top camera, great software, solid battery life and huge screen bolstered by helpful Gemini and Qi2 supportGoogle’s Pixel superphone is back, packed with a bigger battery, faster charging, magnetic accessories and even more cutting-edge AI tools to try to usurp Apple and Samsung as the monarchs of really big phones.The Pixel 10 Pro XL is the largest slab phone Google makes and is one of the biggest available in Europe...
Murdoch, Ellison and China: what we know about the US’s TikTok deal
TikTok’s future in the US has been in limbo for over year, but the Trump administration has signaled a deal is comingFor a week, the White House has signaled that a deal to transfer ownership of TikTok to a US company is forthcoming. Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week that would create a structure for a group of investors to take over operations of the Chinese social media company in the...
Too tricky to cancel: Amazon faces US trial over alleged Prime subscription deceptions
E-commerce giant accused of using tricks to enroll millions into membership and making it nearly impossible to cancelAmazon went to trial on Monday in a US government lawsuit that accuses the e-commerce giant of using tricks to enroll millions of customers in its Prime subscription service and then making it nearly impossible to cancel.The Federal Trade Commission’s complaint, filed in June 2023, alleges that Amazon...
AI ‘carries risks’ but will help tackle global heating, says UN’s climate chief
Simon Stiell insists it is vital governments regulate the technology to blunt its dangerous edgesHarnessing artificial intelligence will help the world to tackle the climate crisis, but governments must step in to regulate the technology, the UN’s climate chief has said.AI is being used to make energy systems more efficient, and to develop tools to reduce carbon from industrial processes. The UN is also using AI as an...
$3,800 Flights and Aborted Takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Announcement Panicked Tech Workers
President Trump’s sudden policy shift sent tech firms scrambling to get immigrant workers back to the US and avoid $100,000 fees.
Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir
For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement Over the past decade, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (Ice) has amassed millions of data points that it uses to identify and track its...
The Download: the LLM will see you now, and a new fusion power deal
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This medical startup uses LLMs to run appointments and make diagnoses Patients at a small number of clinics in Southern California run by the medical startup Akido Labs are spending relatively little time,…
Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center
Mark Zuckerberg’s company faces backlash after rowing back promises to create between 300 and 500 new jobs to man its subsidiary’s new data center.
An oil and gas giant signed a $1 billion deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, just agreed to buy $1 billion in electricity from a power plant being built by Commonwealth Fusion Systems. The deal is the latest to illustrate just how much investment Commonwealth and other fusion companies are courting as they attempt to take fusion power from the…
WIRED’s Politics Issue Cover Is Coming to a City Near You
We’re turning our latest cover into posters, billboards, and even a mural in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Here’s how to find it. (Pics or it didn’t happen.)
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand
Defense tech giant Palantir is selling T-shirts and tote bags as part of a bid to encourage fans to publicly endorse it.
Elon Musk Is Out to Rule Space. Can Anyone Stop Him?
With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power.
This medical startup uses LLMs to run appointments and make diagnoses
Imagine this: You’ve been feeling unwell, so you call up your doctor’s office to make an appointment. To your surprise, they schedule you in for the next day. At the appointment, you aren’t rushed through describing your health concerns; instead, you have a full half hour to share your symptoms and worries and the exhaustive…
More Britons view AI as economic risk than opportunity, Tony Blair thinktank finds
TBI says poll data threatens Keir Starmer’s ambition for UK to become artificial intelligence ‘superpower’Nearly twice as many Britons view artificial intelligence as a risk to the economy than regard it as an opportunity, according to Tony Blair’s thinktank.The Tony Blair Institute warned that the poll findings threatened Keir Starmer’s ambition for the UK to become an AI “superpower” and urged the government to...
How to Build a Faceless YouTube Channel with AI in 2025
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The Metabolic Ceiling: Why Your Body Puts a Limit on Endless Training
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This $19 AI Tool Runs My $1,200/Day Business While I Sleep
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Week 2, episode 4 — How a 7B Model Beat a 175B Behemoth in Data Science
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JK Update Technology: Leveraging GitHub for Developers and Innovators
In the modern tech landscape, collaboration and version control are essential for successful software development. GitHub, the world’s…Continue reading on Medium »
The Forbidden Powers of Python Metaclasses I Shouldn’t Have Touched
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Trump says Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch likely part of US TikTok deal
US president tells Fox News ‘a man named Lachlan is involved … that’s a very unusual name, Lachlan Murdoch’Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch will probably be involved in the effort to buy TikTok in the US, Donald Trump said in an interview on Sunday.The president was asked about the status of the sale of the app during an interview with Peter Doocy on The Sunday Briefing on Fox News. Trump administration...