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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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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
MIT Technology Review Narrated
The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit
MIT Technology Review Narrated