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Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally ban it
Helen Mort couldn’t believe what she was hearing. There were naked photos of her plastered on a...
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These might be the best places for future Mars colonists to look for ice
If we ever start an extraterrestrial colony on Mars, we’ll need water for a host of essential...
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InSight’s heat probe has failed on Mars. Is the mission a failure?
For two years now, NASA’s InSight probe has sat on the surface of Mars, attempting to dig 5 meters...
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Banks need to strike the right balance for digital transformation
Every financial institution is looking to digital transformation to meet rising customer...
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2021 planning: New business models, big opportunity
When the pandemic threw the world into disarray in spring 2020, most organizations responded by...
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Our best illustrations of 2020
From the MIT Technology Review art team, here are some of our very favorite illustrations of the...
Read MoreCurrent spacesuits won’t cut it on the moon. So NASA made new ones.
A spacesuit is more like a miniature spacecraft you wear around your body than an item of clothing. It’s pressurized, it’s decked out with life support systems, and it’s likely to look pretty cool. But should the suit fail,...
Read More2020 has sucked—but there are some small silver linings
The consensus is that 2020 has been “the worst.” But there is reason to look back at this year and find the unexpected silver linings of quarantine, particularly when it comes to how we connect with other people. None of these...
Read MoreThe year deepfakes went mainstream
In 2018, Sam Cole, a reporter at Motherboard, discovered a new and disturbing corner of the internet. A Reddit user by the name of “deepfakes” was posting nonconsensual fake porn videos using an AI algorithm to swap celebrities’...
Read MoreOne man’s crusade to end a global scourge with better salt
When he was growing up, Venkatesh Mannar and his siblings treated the family saltworks as their playground: they would slide down mountains of salt drying in the sun the way other children might sled down snow-covered hillsides....
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The power of value 4.0 for industrial internet of things
Many companies expected 2020 to be a challenging year. They anticipated technological shifts that...
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Autochocolate
>Rogelio Rodríguez Soberanes Plant manager, ECOM Cocoa Veracruz, MexicoThis story is one of a...
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