How to have a child in the digital age
When the journalist and culture critic Amanda Hess got pregnant with her first child, in 2020, the internet was among
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Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon
Later this month, Intuitive Machines, the private company behind the first commercial lander that touched down on the moon, will
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Adventures in the genetic time machine
Eske Willerslev was on a tour of Montreal’s Redpath Museum, a Victorian-era natural history collection of 700,000 objects, many displayed
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This artist collaborates with AI and robots
Many artists worry about the encroachment of artificial intelligence on artistic creation. But Sougwen Chung, a nonbinary Canadian-Chinese artist, instead
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A woman made her AI voice clone say “arse.” Then she got banned.
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and
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My sex doll is mad at me: A short story
The near future. It’s not a kiss, but it’s not not a kiss. Her lips—full, soft, pliable—yield under mine, warm
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China’s electric vehicle giants are betting big on humanoid robots
At the 2025 CCTV New Year Gala last month, a televised spectacle watched by over a billion viewers in China,
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What a major battery fire means for the future of energy storage
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Motor neuron diseases took their voices. AI is bringing them back.
Jules Rodriguez lost his voice in October of last year. His speech had been deteriorating since a diagnosis of amyotrophic
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