Découvrez nos derniers articles sur le développement web, le design et les technologies digitales qui façonnent l'avenir
Earlier this year, the $800 million Vera Rubin Observatory commenced its decade-long quest to create an extremely detailed time-lapse movie of the universe. Rubin is capable of capturing many more stars than any other astronomical observatory ever built; it also sees many more satellites. Up to 40%...
When I picked up my daughter from summer camp, we settled in for an eight-hour drive through the Appalachian mountains, heading from North Carolina to her grandparents’ home in Kentucky. With little to no cell service for much of the drive, we enjoyed the rare opportunity to have a long, thoughtful...
When Jitender was a child in New Delhi, both his parents worked as manual scavengers—a job that involved clearing the city’s sewers of solid waste by hand. Now, he is among almost 200 contractors involved in the Delhi government’s effort to shift from this manual process to safer mechanical...
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAIBy Karen Hao ’15PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $32 Read MIT Technology Review’s excerpt here. Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the ArtsBy Samuel Jay Keyser, HM ’97, emeritus professor of linguisticsMIT PRESS, 2025, $30 Data, Systems, and...
A team at MIT and the Scripps Research Institute has made important progress toward vaccines that can protect against HIV, and potentially other diseases, with a single dose. The researchers treated mice with a vaccine that combines two different adjuvants, materials that help stimulate the immune...
Art restoration takes steady hands and a discerning eye. For centuries, conservators have identified areas needing repair and then mixed the exact shades needed to fill in one area at a time. Restoring a single painting can take anywhere from a few weeks to over a decade. Now an MIT graduate...
On a typical afternoon, MIT’s new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building hums with life. On the fourth floor, a jazz combo works through a set in a rehearsal suite as engineers adjust microphone levels in a nearby control booth. Downstairs, the layered rhythms of Senegalese drumming pulse through a...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Bon, on va pas se mentir. Il y a des histoires dans le monde de la cybersécurité qui méritent d’être racontées, pas seulement pour leur importance technique, mais parce qu’elles incarnent l’esprit...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Bon, on va pas se mentir. Il y a des objets qui marquent une époque. Le transistor, le micro-processeur, l’iPhone… Et puis il y a ces créations plus discrètes qui révolutionnent un domaine entier sans que le...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses Google has just released a report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps...
In October, a new academic conference will debut that’s unlike any other. Agents4Science is a one-day online event that will encompass all areas of science, from physics to medicine. All of the work shared will have been researched, written, and reviewed primarily by AI, and will be presented using...
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an existential imperative. Space is the place. The final frontier. It is our human destiny to transcend our home world and expand our civilization to extraterrestrial vistas. This...