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MIT Technology Review Narrated
MIT Technology Review Narrated
MIT Technology Review

Welcome to MIT Technology Review Narrated, the home for the very best of our journalism in audio. Each week we will share... more

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Meet the radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine’s drone defense

Despite it being over 100 years old, radio technology is still critical in almost all aspects of modern warfare—including in... more

18 Dec 2024 · 23 minutes
ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.

You can practically hear the shrieks from corner offices around the world: “What is our ChatGPT play? How do we... more

11 Dec 2024 · 27 minutes
Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution

In the future, CRISPR will get easier and easier to administer, potentially opening up paths for tinkering with human evolution.... more

04 Dec 2024 · 30 minutes
The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit

Did you know that NASA intends to destroy the International Space Station by around 2030? Once it's gone, private companies... more

27 Nov 2024 · 41 minutes
The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom

Pump jacks and pipelines clutter the Elk Hills oil field of California, a scrubby stretch of land in the southern... more

21 Nov 2024 · 26 minutes
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?

Robots that can do many of the things humans do in the home—folding laundry, cooking meals, cleaning—have been a dream... more

13 Nov 2024 · 26 minutes
Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most famous national park is betting big on crypto

In an attempt to protect its forests and famous wildlife, Virunga has become the first national park to run a... more

06 Nov 2024 · 34 minutes
How gamification took over the world

We live in an undeniably gamified world. We stand up and move around to close colorful rings and earn achievement... more

30 Oct 2024 · 16 minutes
Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?

Digital clones of people's dead relatives are far from perfect: they're occasionally impersonal and sometimes downright creepy. But if the... more

23 Oct 2024 · 27 minutes
Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “super trees”

A Silicon Valley startup wants to supercharge trees to soak up more carbon and cool the climate. Is this the... more

16 Oct 2024 · 35 minutes
What is AI?

Artificial intelligence is the hottest technology of our time. But what is it? It sounds like a stupid question, but... more

09 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 19 minutes
The cost of building the perfect wave

The growing business of surf pools wants to bring the ocean experience inland, making surfing more accessible to communities far... more

02 Oct 2024 · 27 minutes
How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play

Open-world video games are inhabited by vast crowds of computer-controlled characters. These animated people—called NPCs, for “nonplayer characters”—populate the bars,... more

25 Sep 2024 · 28 minutes
The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited organs

At any given time, the US organ transplant waiting list is about 100,000 people long. Martine Rothblatt sees a day... more

18 Sep 2024 · 21 minutes
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?

Design thinking suggests that we are all creatives, and we can solve any problem if we empathize hard enough. The... more

11 Sep 2024 · 28 minutes
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime

Tokelau is a group of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand (of which it’s... more

04 Sep 2024 · 25 minutes
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary

An AI startup created a hyperrealistic deepfake of MIT Technology Review’s senior AI reporter that was so believable, even she... more

28 Aug 2024 · 28 minutes
It’s time to retire the term “user”

Though “user” seems to describe a relationship that is deeply transactional, many of the technological relationships in which a person... more

21 Aug 2024 · 13 minutes
The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa

We've known of Europa’s existence for more than four centuries, but for most of that time, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon was... more

14 Aug 2024 · 26 minutes
Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.

Despite all their runaway success, nobody knows exactly how—or why—large language models work. And that’s a problem. Figuring it out... more

07 Aug 2024 · 16 minutes
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Design thinking suggests that we are all creatives, and we can solve any problem if we empathize hard enough. The methodology was... more