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David Talbot Editor

I’m MIT Technology Review’s chief correspondent, keeping an eye most often on the world of information and communication technologies—and asking my kids when I don’t understand what’s going on. Recent projects have taken me to Kenya to write about mobile-phone-based health initiatives, and Germany to explore how they’ll ramp up renewable power while closing down nuclear plants. My 2008 feature on the Obama campaign’s social-networking operation was selected for The Best Technology Writing 2009.

  • An Interview with Stephen Wolfram

    In an interview with David Talbot, Technology Review’s chief correspondent, Stephen Wolfram describes what motivated him to launch Wolfram Alpha, how the “knowledge engine” works, and where it’s headed.

  • What is Watson?

    Researchers at IBM have developed a computer system uses natural language techniques to process a question.

  • Soul of a New Mobile Machine

    From conception to buzz, from three-way spring to soft-touch paint: inside the design of a multimedia communications gadget.

  • Soul of a New Mobile Machine

    From conception to buzz, from three-way spring to soft-touch paint: inside the design of a multimedia communications gadget.

  • Una Laptop por Niño

    The philanthropic effort dubbed the $100 Laptop has not met its grand initial goals. But its first deployment, in Peru, may turn skeptics into believers.

  • How Tor Works

    A video demonstrating how Tor uses a series of relays to protect anonymity online.

  • Dissent Made Safer

    Roger Dingledine, leader of the Tor Project, describes where the anonymity technology came from, who uses it today, and how it will improve–and its usage will expand–in the future.

  • A Heatstroke-Sensing Helmet

    Hothead Technologies has developed a system that can sense and warn a user of heatstroke. In this video, an RFID transmitter is fitted in a headband and a white temperature-sensing patch touches the wearer’s forehead. Readings are beamed to a PDA (not shown). When the wearer’s temperature hits 102.5 and stays there for 20 seconds, an alarm sounds on the PDA.

  • TR10: HashCache

    Vivek Pai explains how broadband access alone cannot bridge the digital divide.

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