Showing results by narrator "Todd Mundt" in All Categories

In this issue: "10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2015: Where Are They Now?" by Tom Simonite; "5 Robot Trends to Watch for in 2016" by Will Knight; "What Will It Take to Build a Virtuous AI?" by Will Knight; "What Robots and AI Learned in 2015" by Will Knight; "The 6 Most Important Things That Happened in Virtual Reality in 2015" by Rachel Metz; "Human-Animal Chimeras Are Gestating on U.S. Research Farms" by Antonio Regalado; "Parents Turn to Prozac to Treat Down Syndrome" by Bonnie Rochman; "2015 in Biomedicine: Baby Engineering, Spray-On GMOs, and Cancer Cures" by Antonio Regalado.

In this issue: "A Change of Mind" by Bonnie Rochman. "Kindergarten for Computers" by Will Knight. "Are Young Athletes Risking Brain Damage?" by Amanda Schaffer. "Hot and Violent" by David Rotman. "Stop Emissions!" by Ken Caldeira. "A Sensible Climate Policy" by Richard Martin. "The End of Internet Advertising as We've Known It" by Doc Searls.

In this issue: "IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip" by Tom Simonite; "Claimed Breakthrough Slays Classic Computing Problem; Encryption Could Be Next" by Tom Simonite; "How Your Device Knows Your Life through Images" by Graham Templeton; "Twitter Boasts of What It Can Do with Your Data" by Tom Simonite; "Alphabet’s Stratospheric Loon Balloons to Start Serving Internet to Indonesia" by Tom Simonite.

In this issue: "India's Energy Crisis" by Richard Martin. "A Shocking Way to Fix the Brain" by Adam Piore. "Fighting ISIS Online" by David Talbot. "The Hit Charade" by Will Knight.

In this issue: "Teaching Machines to Understand Us" by Tom Simonite. "Paying for Solar Power" by David Rotman. "India Loves MOOCs" by George Anders. "Motion Pictures" by Martin Gayford.

In this issue: "35 Innovators Under 35 2015" by The Editors of Technology Review. "The Next Great GMO Debate" by Antonio Regaldo.

In this issue: "Facebook Instant Articles Just Don't Add Up for Publishers" by Michael Wolff; "Probing the Dark Side of Google's Ad-Targeting System" by Tom Simonite; "Artificial Intelligence That Makes Your Smartphone Smarter" by Rachel Metz; "Self-Charging Phones Are on the Way, Finally" by Rachel Metz; "Smartphones (and Motorcycles) Fuel Hyperlocal E-Commerce in India" by George Anders; "Inside India's Phablet Revolution" by George Anders; "Is Now a Good Time to Meet Your New Virtual Assistant?" by Will Knight; "Inside Amazon's Warehouse, Human-Robot Symbiosis" by Will Knight; "How to Stop Virtual Reality from Making You Want to Puke" by Rachel Metz; "Automated Vehicles: One Eye on the Road, Another on You" by Will Knight; "Teach Your Fitness Band to Track Biceps Curls and More" by Rachel Metz; "The Great Cancer Test Experiment" by Antonio Reglado; "When a Fetus's Test Finds a Mother’s Cancer" by Anna Nowogrodzki; and "Should Babies Have Their Genomes Sequenced?" by Anna Nowogrodzki.

In this issue: "Who Will Own the Robots?" by David Rotman. "Biotech's Coming Cancer Cure" by Antonio Regalado. "Cyber-Espionage Nightmare" by David Talbot. "Rebooting the Automobile" by Will Knight.

In this issue: "Apple Has Plans for Your DNA" by Antonio Regalado. "Small Display Bedevils Some Apple Watch Apps" by Rachel Metz. "Microsoft Making Fast Progress with HoloLens" by Rachel Metz. "Startup Beams the Web’s Most Important Content from Space, Free" by Tom Simonite. "Even Robots Now Have Their Own Virtual World" by Will Knight. "Some Tesla Owners Pimp Their Rides with Code" by Will Knight. "Dropbox Follows the Money into Crowded Market for Business Tools" by Tom Simonite. "Why Bitcoin Could Be Much More Than a Currency" by Mike Orcutt. "A New Competitor for Bitcoin Aims to Be Faster and Safer" by Tom Simonite. "Can You Improve Your E-Mails by Analyzing Recipients’ Personalities?" by Rachel Metz. "A Potato Made with Gene Editing" by Antonio Regalado. "CRISPR Patent Fight Now a Winner-Take-All Match" by Antonio Regalado.

In this issue: "Engineering the Perfect Baby" by Antonio Regalado. "Lake Kivu’s Great Gas Gamble" by Jonathan W. Rosen. "Machine Dreams" by Tom Simonite. "Paralyzed Again" by Brian Bergstein.

In this issue: "A Contrarian in Biotech" by Antonio Regalado. "Industry Body Calls for Gene-Editing Moratorium" by Antonio Regalado. "The Electric Mood-Control Acid Test" by Kevin Bullis. "Gadgets Are Getting Better at Fooling Your Sense of Touch" by Rachel Metz. "App Ads Are Booming Business for Facebook" by Robert D. Hof. "Smartphones Will Soon Learn to Recognize Faces and More" by Tom Simonite. "How People Will Use the Apple Watch" by John Pavlus. "A Smart Watch Pioneer Has an Answer for Apple" by Rachel Metz. "Your iPhone Might Make You a Reality TV Star" by Winston Ross. "New Display Technology Lets LCDs Produce Princess Leia-Style Holograms" by Mike Orcutt. "A Film Studio for the Age of Virtual Reality" by Rachel Metz. "Five Loopholes That Could Undermine Net Neutrality" by George Anders.

In this issue, Technology Review highlights 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Not all breakthroughs are created equal. Some arrive more or less as usable things; others mainly set the stage for innovations that emerge later, and we have to estimate when that will be. But we’d bet that every one of the milestones on this list will be worth following in the coming years.

In this issue, you’ll learn what the latest technological flops, fizzles, and flame outs tell us about innovation. You’ll hear how the past year ushered in progress in developing hardware and software capable of human feats of intelligence. You’ll learn how a wireless transmitter could give paralyzed people a practical way to control TVs, computers, or wheelchairs with their thoughts. You’ll hear how software that turns data into written text could help us make sense of a coming tsunami of data. You’ll learn what’s next for the inventor of Gorilla Glass. You’ll hear about how a wireless technology more than 10 times faster than the best Wi-Fi is coming to market this year.

In this issue, you’ll hear how the way the Land of the Rising Sun built and lost its dominance in photovoltaics shows just how vulnerable renewables remain to changing politics and national policies. You’ll learn how researchers are taking a new approach at unlocking Autism’s secrets. You’ll hear about a group of journalists and researchers that are venturing into the ugly corners of the Internet in an effort to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. And you’ll learn how severe droughts are forcing researchers to rethink how technology can increase the supply of fresh water.

In this issue, you'll learn how Google will keep a copy of any genome in the cloud – for only 25 dollars. You’ll hear about Lockheed Martin's breakthrough Fusion machine. You’ll learn how Knightscope is preparing to roll out human-size robot patrols. You'll hear how IBM is trying to turn things around with research on more human-like artificial intelligence. You'll learn how we’re going to need an air traffic control system for drones. You'll hear about a "smart" terminal that is going to be used for all kinds of payments. And you'll hear news from the worlds of Biomedicine, Technology and Communications.

In this issue, you’ll learn why the disparity between the rich and everyone else is larger than ever in the United States and increasing in much of Europe. You’ll hear whether an aging corporation’s adventures in fundamental physics can open an era of unimaginably powerful computers. You’ll learn how China will dominate the future of genetically modified food—despite the resistance of its population. And you’ll hear how letting go of an obsession with net neutrality could free technologists to make online services even better.

In this issue, you’ll learn how one of the world’s most renowned cancer researchers is gearing up for Plan B. You’ll hear how a California father made an end run around medicine to decode his son’s DNA. You’ll learn how one of China’s internet giants is trying to challenge Silicon Valley’s biggest companies. You’ll hear about the mastermind behind Bitcoin and how he has the most power over its destiny. You’ll learn how Apple’s first smart watch appears to be the best of its kind. And you’ll hear how Google’s crack at a quantum computer is a bid to change computing forever.

In this Special Issue, Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35. All 35 of these people are doing exciting work that could shape their fields for decades. But they’re solving problems in remarkably different ways. We consider some of them to be primarily Inventors; they’re immersed in building new technologies. Others we call Visionaries, because they’re showing how technologies could be put to new or better uses. Humanitarians are using technology to expand opportunities or inform public policy. Pioneers are doing fundamental work that will spawn future innovations; such breakthroughs will be taken up by tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs, people who are building new tech businesses. Everyone on the list was nominated either by the public or by MIT Technology Review’s editors. Some got our attention when they were picked by our international publishing partners as Innovators Under 35 for their regions. After our editors pared the roughly 500 nominees to 80 finalists, outside judges rated the originality and impact, or potential impact, of their work; those scores guided the editors as they crafted the list.

You’ll learn how Facebook is pushing beyond data-driven studies on voting, sharing, and organ-donation prompts, to make people feel good or bad. You’ll hear how inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is working with Google to apply his theory of intelligence to understanding online information. You’ll learn how Amazon’s Fire Phone could make visual search easier, better, and more popular. You’ll hear how IBM is working on a new computer chip – which could be up to five times faster than current transistors. You’ll learn how smart homes will require unprecedented effort to ensure not just security but also usability. And you’ll hear news from the worlds of Biomedicine, Technology and Communications.

In this issue, you’ll hear how researchers can investigate the source of emotions, memory, and consciousness for the first time. You’ll learn how better research tools and new insights into the genetics of brain disorders could revive the moribund effort to improve treatments. You’ll hear how a better understanding of the complex systems the brain uses to relay information could lead to massive breakthroughs in memory and computing. You’ll learn about a remarkable experiment where a paralyzed woman used her mind to control a robotic arm. And you’ll hear how Gabriel Kreiman’s single-neuron measurements of unconscious decision-making could someday point to ways we can learn to control ourselves.