Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today
Happy birthday, baby. You have been born into an era of intelligent machines. They have watched over you almost since
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Culture
Music streaming can be a drag on the environment. These K-pop fans want to clean it up.
On Valentine’s Day 2023, five K-pop fans came to a bustling street in the center of Seoul, one of them
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A polyester-dissolving process could make modern clothing recyclable
Less than 1% of clothing is recycled, and most of the rest ends up dumped in a landfill or burned.
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Do you want to play a game?
For children, play comes so naturally. They don’t have to be encouraged to play. They don’t need equipment, or the
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Toys can change your life
In a November 1984 story for Technology Review, Carolyn Sumners, curator of astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science,
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Supershoes are reshaping distance running
The track at Moi University’s Eldoret Town Campus doesn’t look like a facility designed for champions. Its surface is a
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How QWERTY keyboards show the English dominance of tech
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your
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The quest to type Chinese on a QWERTY keyboard created autocomplete
This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age by Thomas S. Mullaney, published
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Technology is probably changing us for the worse—or so we always think
MIT Technology Review is celebrating our 125th anniversary with an online series that draws lessons for the future from our
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