Showing results by publisher "MIT Technology Review" in Science

Welcome to MIT Technology Review Narrated, the home for the very best of our journalism in audio. Each week we will share one of our most ambitious stories, from print and online, narrated for us by real voice actors. Expect big themes, thought-provoking topics, and sharp analysis, all backed by our trusted reporting.

In this issue: "35 Innovators Under 35 – Inventors" by The Editors of Technology Review; "35 Innovators Under 35 – The Entrepreneurs" by The Editors of Technology Review; "35 Innovators Under 35 – Visionaries" by The Editors of Technology Review; "35 Innovators Under 35 – Humanitarians" by The Editors of Technology Review; "35 Innovators Under 35 – Pioneers" by The Editors of Technology Review; and "A New Way to Reproduce" by Antonio Regalado.

In this issue: "Can China and the Internet Save American Small Business?" by Emily Parker; "In China, a Store of the Future—No Checkout, No Staff" by Yiting Sun; "China's Central Bank Has Begun Cautiously Testing a Digital Currency" by Will Knight; "Trump Talk Aside, Auto Manufacturing and Automation Are Booming in Mexico" by Amy Guthrie; "Karamba Is Writing Software to Keep Your Connected Car from Getting Hacked" by Doron Levin; "Peter Thiel Is Funding the Effort to Bring Woolly Mammoths Back to Life" by Antonio Regalado…

In this issue: "Why Tesla Is Worth More than GM" by James Surowiecki; "Help from Above" by Jonathan W. Rosen; "Carbon" by Katherine Bourzac; "Oxford Nanopore" by Antonio Regalado; "IBM" by David H. Freedman; "General Electric" by Elizabeth Woyke; "Why Bad Things Happen to Clean-Energy Startups" by James Temple.

In this issue: "Congress Takes Blockchain 101" by Mike Orcutt; "Why Congress Can't Seem to Fix This 30-Year-Old Law Governing Your Electronic Data" by Mike Orcutt; "Trump's Tax Talk Sounds Less Than "Phenomenal" for Tech" by Peter Burrows; "The U.S. Military Wants Its Autonomous Machines to Explain Themselves" by Will Knight; "Messaging App Sweeping Asia Could Blunt Snapchat's Global Ambitions" by Yoochul Kim and Elizabeth Woyke; "This Lab-in-a-Box Could Make Gene Therapy Less Elitist" by Antonio Regalado; and more!

In this issue: "Procuring Innovation" by Fred Kaplan; "The Hole in the Digital Economy" by David Talbot; "Rejuvenating the Chance of Motherhood?" by Karen Weintraub; "The Cancer Lottery" by Stephen S. Hall; and "Google's Long, Strange Life Span Trip" by Antonio Regalado.

In this issue: "10 Breakthrough Technologies"; "One Man's Quest to Hack His Own Genes" by Antonio Regalado; and "The Robotic Grocery Store of the Future Is Here" by Jamie Condliffe.

In this issue: "100 Days in, Few Clues about Trump's Tech Agenda" by Mike Orcutt; "Finding Solace in Defeat by Artificial Intelligence" by Brenden Lake; "Facebook's Sci-Fi Plan for Typing with Your Mind and Hearing with Your Skin" by Rachel Metz; "Google's Health Study Seeks 10,000 Volunteers to Give Up Their Medical Secrets" by Antonio Regalado; "Engineering the Perfect Astronaut" by Antonio Regalado; "With Neuralink, Elon Musk Promises Human-to-Human Telepathy. Don't Believe It." by Antonio Regalado; "The World's Largest Electric Vehicle Maker Hits a Speed Bump" by Laurie Burkitt.

In this issue: "One Man's Quest to Hack His Own Genes" by Antonio Regalado; "Critics Blast Star-Studded Advisory Board of Anti-Aging Company" by Karen Weintraub; "Questionable 'Young Blood' Transfusions Offered in U.S. as Anti-Aging Remedy" by Amy Maxmen; "10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2016: Where Are They Now?" by Tom Simonite; "5 Big Predictions for Artificial Intelligence in 2017" by Will Knight; "Everything You Need to Know About Gene Therapy’s Most Promising Year" by Antonio Regalado; "For $149 a Month, the Doctor Will See You as Often as You Want" by Rachel Metz; "The Man Selling Virtual Reality to China" by Yiting Sun; "One Startup's Vision to Reinvent the Web for Better Privacy" by Tom Simonite; "Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence" by Will Knight; "Robot Cars Can Learn to Drive without Leaving the Garage" by Will Knight; "The Limits of Fact-Checking Facebook" by Matt Mahoney.

In this issue: "Disinformation Technology" by John Pollock; "The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI" by Will Knight; "James Allison Has Unfinished Business with Cancer" by Adam Piore; "Treating Addiction with an App" by Nanette Byrnes; and "The Growing Case for Geoengineering" by James Temple.

The tube was out back, 11 feet in diameter, 60 feet long, the unfinished end spiraling into wide ribbons of steel - like a gigantic Pillsbury dough container with its seams gaping open. Behind the tube was a big blue tent known as the robot school, where autonomous welders wheel or crawl along, making the tubes airtight. The goal is to put tracks and electromagnets inside the tube and vacuum most of the air out.

In this issue: "Can CRISPR Save Ben Dupree?" by Antonio Regalado; "Your Driverless Ride Is Arriving" by Will Knight; "Elon Musk's House of Gigacards" by Peter Burrows; "The One and Only Texas Wind Boom" by Richard Martin; and "Learning to Prosper in a Factory Town" by Nanette Byrnes.

In this issue: "5 Things You Need to Know about Facebook’s Next 10 Years" by Rachel Metz and Tom Simonite. "Wireless, Super-Fast Internet Access Is Coming to Your Home" by David Talbot. "The Nauseating Disappointment of Oculus Rift" by Rachel Metz. "The Unbelievable Reality of the Impossible Hyperloop" by Ryan Bradley. "Coffee Under Threat" by Nanette Byrnes. "Who Approved the Genetically Engineered Foods Coming to Your Plate? No One." by Mike Orcutt. "When Smartphones Become Too Addictive, Stylish Dumb Phones Offer a Respite" by Rachel Metz.

In this issue: "In Apple vs. the FBI, There Is No Technical Middle Ground" by David Talbot; "How Apple Could Fed-Proof Its Software Update System" by Tom Simonite; "Pentagon Hackers Are Waging America's First Cyberwar" by Tom Simonite; "The Missing Link of Artificial Intelligence" by Tom Simonite; "An AI with 30 Years' Worth of Knowledge Finally Goes to Work" by Will Knight; "Technical Roadblock Might Shatter Bitcoin Dreams" by Tom Simonite; "In First Human Test of Optogenetics, Doctors Aim to Restore Sight to the Blind" by Katherine Bourzac.

In this issue: "Why Startups Are Struggling" by James Surowiecki; "Why Kickstarter's Glowing Plant Left Backers in the Dark" by Antonio Regalado; "Inside Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Engine Room" by Tom Simonite; "Find Out Which Appliance Is Sucking All Your Power" by David Talbot; "Juiced-Up Home Wi-Fi for $10 Extra a Month? It’s Coming." by Stacey Higginbotham; "How Stores Will Use Augmented Reality to Make You Buy More Stuff" by Elizabeth Woyke; "The Sacramento Kings' New Stadium Is Wired for Virtual Reality" by Tom Simonite.

In this issue: "Microsoft's Top Lawyer Becomes a Civil Rights Crusader" by Tom Simonite; "Bill Gates Doubles His Bet on Wiping Out Mosquitoes with Gene Editing" by Antonio Regalado; "Manufacturing Dopamine in the Brain with Gene Therapy" by Antonio Regalado; "China's Headlong Rush into an Ultra-expensive Cancer Therapy" by Yiting Sun; "Fetal Cells Offer Promise in Prenatal Testing" by Bonnie Rochman; "A Big Step Forward in the Quest for a Better Painkiller" by Adam Piore; "Life as an Entrepreneur in a Violent Mexico" by Adam Popescu.

In this issue: "Basic Income: A Sellout of the American Dream" by David H. Freedman. "The All-American iPhone" by Konstantin Kakaes. "Dear Silicon Valley: Forget Flying Cars, Give Us Economic Growth" by David Rotman. "50 Smartest Companies 2016" by Ryan Bradley. "23andMe" by Antonio Regalado. "Toyota" by George Anders.

In this issue: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016: "Immune Engineering" by Antonio Regalado. "Precise Gene Editing in Plants" by David Talbot. "Conversational Interfaces" by Will Knight. "Reusable Rockets" by Brian Bergstein. "Robots That Teach Each Other" by Amanda Schaffer. "DNA App Store" by Antonio Regalado. "SolarCity's Gigafactory" by Richard Martin. "Slack" by Lee Gomes. "Tesla Autopilot" by Ryan Bradley. "Power from the Air" by Mark Harris. Also: "Should Silicon Valley Go to War?" by Fred Kaplan. "Apprentice Work" by Martin Gayford.

In this issue: "The Rogue Immune Cells That Wreck the Brain" by Adam Piore. "The People's Robots" by Will Knight. "The Extinction Invention" by Antonio Regalado. "The Missing Link of Artificial Intelligence" by Tom Simonite.

In this issue: "How Bad Will Trump Be for Climate Policy?" by David Victor; "Trump's Impact on Clean-Energy Businesses" by Peter Fairley; "Amazon's Next Big Move: Take Over the Mall" by Nicholas Carr; "Mark Zuckerberg Is Funding a Facebook for Human Cells" by Antonio Regalado; "Web Pioneer Tries to Incubate a Second Digital Revolution" by Tom Simonite; "The Decline in Chinese Cyberattacks: The Story Behind the Numbers" by Mara Hvistendahl; "On Patrol with America's Top Bioterror Cop" by Antonio Regalado; "Companies Bet on Designer Bacteria as New Way to Treat Disease" by Antonio Regalado.