Kamala Harris should stand with tech workers, not their bosses
Tangled up in the contest to be the next US president, there is another battle brewing: Silicon Valley vs. Silicon
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Three ways the US could help universities compete with tech companies on AI innovation
The ongoing revolution in artificial intelligence has the potential to dramatically improve our lives—from the way we work to what
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Trump wants to unravel Biden’s landmark climate law. Here is what’s most at risk.
President Joe Biden’s crowning legislative achievement was enacting the Inflation Reduction Act, easily the nation’s largest investment into addressing the
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Huawei’s 5G chip breakthrough needs a reality check
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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What are the hardest problems in tech we should be more focused on as a society?
Technology is all about solving big thorny problems. Yet one of the hardest things about solving hard problems is knowing
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Europe is working to slow down the global expansion of Chinese EVs
The boom has finally been lowered on Chinese electric-vehicle companies. On September 13, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen
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Tech is broken—can collective action fix it?
For Silicon Valley venture capitalists and founders, any inconvenience big or small is a problem to be solved—even death itself.
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AI isn’t great at decoding human emotions. So why are regulators targeting the tech?
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To
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What happened to the microfinance company Kiva?
One morning in August 2021, as she had nearly every morning for about a decade, Janice Smith opened her computer
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