Interview with Patientory a population health management company
Q: What can you tell us about your company? Patientory is a population health management company that empowers end users with actionable…
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Interview with Ampersand Markets: Most robust use of blockchain in the metals world
Q: What can you tell us about your company? Our focus has been on offering a token structure to accommodate, and ultimately…
Interview with Everex – Ethereum blockchain-powered solutions for cross-border money transfers, direct payments
Q: What can you tell us about your company? Everex is a Singapore registered financial technology company, with head office in Bangkok,…
Upstart Raises $50M to Further Revolutionize Unsecured Lending
Upstart represents what Carsurance describes in its infographic as 2018’s most impactful innovations in the financial services industry. This San Francisco–based startup…
Magento 2 is getting hotter and hotter in 2019
In order to become a successful ecommerce business, you would have to have a world-class ecommerce site. To build an ecommerce website,…
The three challenges keeping cars from being fully autonomous
Understanding where we are in the pursuit of self-driving cars can be as confusing as understanding where we are in the pursuit…
Ready for 6G? How AI will shape the network of the future
Mobile-phone technology has changed the way humans understand and interact with the world and with each other. It’s hard to think of…
Landowners are earning millions for carbon cuts that may not occur
Under a California program aimed at curbing climate pollution, landowners across the US have received hundreds of millions of dollars for promised…
Facebook’s ad-serving algorithm discriminates by gender and race
Algorithms are biased—and Facebook’s is no exception. Just last week, the tech giant was sued by the US Department of Housing and…
China’s Huawei has big ambitions to weaken the US grip on AI leadership
Ren Zhengfei, the reclusive founder and CEO of China’s embattled tech giant, Huawei, is defiant about American efforts to impede his company…
The race to make a lab-grown steak
In 2013, the world’s first burger from a lab was cooked in butter and eaten at a glitzy press conference. The burger…
Bill Gates explains why we should all be optimists
There are a lot of worries today about technology’s harmful effects. How do you retain your famous optimism about it? This story…
A simple blood test to predict premature births could save babies’ lives
Fifteen million babies are born prematurely each year. Stephen Quake’s daughter, Zoe, was one of them: she arrived via emergency C-section after…
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019, curated by Bill Gates
I was honored when MIT Technology Review invited me to be the first guest curator of its 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Narrowing down…
Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to stop it
Amy Webb, futurist, NYU professor, and award-winning author, has spent much of the last decade researching, discussing, and meeting with people and…
China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced
The brains of two genetically edited girls born in China last year may have been changed in ways that enhance cognition and…
The first privately funded trip to the moon is about to launch
Update: The SpaceIL lander was launched and deployed successfully on February 21, at 8:45 p.m. aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It’s expected…
The technology behind OpenAI’s fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained
Last Thursday (Feb. 14), the nonprofit research firm OpenAI released a new language model capable of generating convincing passages of prose. So convincing,…
AI is reinventing the way we invent
Regina Barzilay’s office at MIT affords a clear view of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. Amgen’s drug discovery group is a…
Never mind killer robots—here are six real AI dangers to watch out for in 2019
Last year a string of controversies revealed a darker (and dumber) side to artificial intelligence.