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A small group of volunteers will receive multiple injections of the experimental treatments next month, says Unlimited Bio.
This company is developing gene therapies for muscle growth, erectile dysfunction, and “radical longevity”
A small group of volunteers will receive multiple injections of the experimental treatments next month, says Unlimited Bio.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A small group of volunteers will receive multiple injections of the experimental treatments next month, says Unlimited Bio.
One project aims to harness local geothermal resources to pull CO2 from the air. Will it prove that carbon removal can really help our warming planet?
Welcome to Kenya’s Great Carbon Valley: a bold new gamble to fight climate change
One project aims to harness local geothermal resources to pull CO2 from the air. Will it prove that carbon removal can really help our warming planet?
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December 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
One project aims to harness local geothermal resources to pull CO2 from the air. Will it prove that carbon removal can really help our warming planet?
A small but influential community of researchers, scientists, and policy experts believes, in the simplest terms, that AI could get so good it could be bad—very, very bad—for humanity. They wish people were still taking their warnings really seriously.
The AI doomers feel undeterred
But they certainly wish people were still taking their warnings really seriously.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A small but influential community of researchers, scientists, and policy experts believes, in the simplest terms, that AI could get so good it could be bad—very, very bad—for humanity. They wish people were still taking their warnings really seriously.
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Fascinating look at what's happening to early EVs coming off the roads by @caiwei.bsky.social
China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to bury their batteries.
As early electric cars age out, hundreds of thousands of used batteries are flooding the market, fueling a gray recycling economy even as Beijing and big manufacturers scramble to build a more orderly...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Fascinating look at what's happening to early EVs coming off the roads by @caiwei.bsky.social
As early electric cars age out, hundreds of thousands of used batteries are flooding the market, fueling a gray recycling economy even as Beijing and big manufacturers scramble to build a more orderly system.
China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to bury their batteries.
As early electric cars age out, hundreds of thousands of used batteries are flooding the market, fueling a gray recycling economy even as Beijing and big manufacturers scramble to build a more orderly...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
As early electric cars age out, hundreds of thousands of used batteries are flooding the market, fueling a gray recycling economy even as Beijing and big manufacturers scramble to build a more orderly system.
How well do you remember this year’s headlines? Take our quiz on the year in health and biotechnology to find out: www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/18/1...
Take our quiz on the year in health and biotechnology
How well do you remember this year’s headlines?
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December 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
How well do you remember this year’s headlines? Take our quiz on the year in health and biotechnology to find out: www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/18/1...
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It’s @antonioregalado.bsky.social’s annual Worst Tech of the year list. Cornucopia of options in 2025.
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The 8 worst technology flops of 2025
The Cybertruck, sycophantic AI, and humanoid robots all made this year’s list of the biggest technology failures.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
It’s @antonioregalado.bsky.social’s annual Worst Tech of the year list. Cornucopia of options in 2025.
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Here’s how pinning a utopian vision for AI on LLMs kicked off the hype cycle that’s causing fears of a bubble today.
A brief history of Sam Altman’s hype
Here’s how pinning a utopian vision for AI on LLMs kicked off the hype cycle that’s causing fears of a bubble today.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Here’s how pinning a utopian vision for AI on LLMs kicked off the hype cycle that’s causing fears of a bubble today.
At long last, we have published our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest technologies of the year.
Here are some of this year's more notable flops: www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/18/1...
Here are some of this year's more notable flops: www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/18/1...
December 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
At long last, we have published our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest technologies of the year.
Here are some of this year's more notable flops: www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/18/1...
Here are some of this year's more notable flops: www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/18/1...
There’s new interest and funding for the field, but it’s waiting for its breakthrough moment.
Can AI really help us discover new materials?
There’s new interest and funding for the field, but it’s waiting for its breakthrough moment.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
There’s new interest and funding for the field, but it’s waiting for its breakthrough moment.
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I selfishly asked @alexckaufman.bsky.social to write this because I wanted to know what's been going on with atmospheric water generation. And then mid-reporting, Omar Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Which was...um...totally our plan all along. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/17/1...
This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air
Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I selfishly asked @alexckaufman.bsky.social to write this because I wanted to know what's been going on with atmospheric water generation. And then mid-reporting, Omar Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Which was...um...totally our plan all along. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/17/1...
Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops.
What even is the AI bubble?
Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops.
Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.
This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air
Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.
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2025 was the year AI reached peak hype. (I mean, one hopes!). We have a fantastic series looking at the froth, anchored by this gem from @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social
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The great AI hype correction of 2025
Four ways to think about this year's reckoning
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December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
2025 was the year AI reached peak hype. (I mean, one hopes!). We have a fantastic series looking at the froth, anchored by this gem from @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social
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The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map.
Quantum navigation could solve the military’s GPS jamming problem
The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map.
The hype we have been sold for the past few years has been overwhelming. Hype Correction is the antidote.
Why it’s time to reset our expectations for AI
The hype we have been sold for the past few years has been overwhelming. Hype Correction is the antidote.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The hype we have been sold for the past few years has been overwhelming. Hype Correction is the antidote.
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TR has a package of stories up today recalibrating the AI hype, exploring what it will deliver & where it's coming up short: www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...
Hype Correction
An MIT Technology Review series Hype Correction It’s time to reset expectations. AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is the single biggest, most important inven...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
TR has a package of stories up today recalibrating the AI hype, exploring what it will deliver & where it's coming up short: www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...
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Today @technologyreview.com has a fantastic new package that corrects all the AI hype www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...
Hype Correction
An MIT Technology Review series Hype Correction It’s time to reset expectations. AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is the single biggest, most important inven...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Today @technologyreview.com has a fantastic new package that corrects all the AI hype www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...
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OK here we go! Today we launch Hype Correction, our critical look at where AI is, and how we should reset our expectations. www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
OK here we go! Today we launch Hype Correction, our critical look at where AI is, and how we should reset our expectations. www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...
While there is some uncertainty about how exactly Southeast Asia's space sector may evolve, there is plenty of optimism, too.
Southeast Asia seeks its place in space
At the Thai Space Expo, attendees explored possible futures for the region.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
While there is some uncertainty about how exactly Southeast Asia's space sector may evolve, there is plenty of optimism, too.
Carrier screening, which tests would-be parents for hidden genetic mutations that might affect their children, initially involved testing for specific genes in at-risk populations.
Now, it’s open to almost everyone who can afford it. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Now, it’s open to almost everyone who can afford it. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Expanded carrier screening: Is it worth it?
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Carrier screening, which tests would-be parents for hidden genetic mutations that might affect their children, initially involved testing for specific genes in at-risk populations.
Now, it’s open to almost everyone who can afford it. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Now, it’s open to almost everyone who can afford it. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Should private companies be able to dim the sun?
Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious
Should private companies be able to dim the sun?
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December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Should private companies be able to dim the sun?
Should private companies be able to dim the sun?
Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious
Should private companies be able to dim the sun?
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December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Should private companies be able to dim the sun?
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Have a smarter baby? You might, but it's not necessarily legal to advertise. Our look at the NYC subway ad campaign by IVF embryo profiling company Nucleus and how it collides with anti-discrimination statutes that apply to advertising on public property.
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The ads that sell the sizzle of genetic trait discrimination
A startup’s ads for controversial embryo tests hit the New York City subway.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Have a smarter baby? You might, but it's not necessarily legal to advertise. Our look at the NYC subway ad campaign by IVF embryo profiling company Nucleus and how it collides with anti-discrimination statutes that apply to advertising on public property.
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I did a lengthy interview with the CEO of Stardust, in which he walked back the solar geoengineering startup's testing and deployment plans a bit. The company also intends to release details about its proprietary particles early next year and expects to open a US office soon.
How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet
And why many scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I did a lengthy interview with the CEO of Stardust, in which he walked back the solar geoengineering startup's testing and deployment plans a bit. The company also intends to release details about its proprietary particles early next year and expects to open a US office soon.