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Uber’s Other Big Problem: Driverless Cars Aren’t Ready Yet
Its new CEO will inherit many problems, but a business plan based on the elusive dream of driverless cars is the largest.
Business Impact
The Unaffordable Urban Paradise
Tech startups helped turn a handful of metro areas into megastars. Now they’re tearing those cities apart.
Sustainable Energy
Scientists Sharply Rebut Influential Renewable-Energy Plan
Nearly two dozen researchers critique a proposal for wind, solar, and water power gaining traction in policy circles.
Connectivity
This Startup Is Making Virtual and Augmented Reality So Crisp It Looks Real
Varjo’s prototype of a VR headset shows much clearer images in the center of the display, a much-needed advancement that could help consumer adoption.
Intelligent Machines
Meet the Chinese Finance Giant That’s Secretly an AI Company
The smartphone payments business Ant Financial is using computer vision, natural language processing, and mountains of data to reimagine banking, insurance, and more.
Business Impact
In China, a Store of the Future—No Checkout, No Staff
Wheelys tests a 24-hour store run entirely by technology.
Features
Sustainable Energy
Why Bad Things Happen to Clean-Energy Startups
New technologies for storing power from wind and solar farms will be key to a clean-energy future. But Aquion Energy’s recent bankruptcy shows the market challenge of making that happen.
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A Field Guide to Digital Transformation
Hybrid IT, edge computing and other advanced technologies can help companies accelerate time to value.
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How Will We Solve Big Energy Challenges?
How will industry leaders, government officials, researchers, entrepreneurs - lift billions of people out of poverty - and continue to advance technological civilization? Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of MIT Technology Review delivers a striking message of collaboration from the Offshore Technology Conference Statoil Reception in Houston, Texas.
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Fight Scale with Scale
Samsung has rebounded from its battery-related challenges by expanding its fault resolution capabilities and is now positioned to revolutionize the manner in which the global smartphone industry mitigates future issues. Samsung’s solution could have massive ramifications for the industry, creating a quality control platform in which the entire industry may participate.
Features
Connectivity
Virtual Reality’s Missing Element: Other People
VR can be the basis of a new communications industry if the technology becomes less insular and isolating.
Intelligent Machines
Artificial intelligence and robots are transforming how we work and live.
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Reinforcement Learning: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017
By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them.
by Will Knight
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Why Waymo’s Partnership with Avis Makes Sense
Alphabet’s autonomous-driving division doesn’t care for auto maintenance, while rental firms are keen to find purpose as the model of car ownership changes.
by Jamie Condliffe
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World’s First Cable-Free Elevator Zooms Horizontally and Vertically Using Maglev Tech
It could help change the way that buildings are designed, as well as getting you to your floor faster.
by Jamie Condliffe
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Business Impact
How technology advances are changing the economy and providing new opportunities in many industries.
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In China, a Store of the Future—No Checkout, No Staff
Wheelys tests a 24-hour store run entirely by technology.
by Yiting Sun
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Zipline’s Ambitious Medical Drone Delivery in Africa
In Rwanda, an early commercial test of unmanned aerial vehicles cuts a medical facility’s time to procure blood from four hours to 15 minutes.
by Jonathan W. Rosen
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Tim Cook: Apple Isn’t Falling Behind, It’s Just Not Ready to Talk About the Future
The Apple CEO tells us what he thinks about Silicon Valley’s gender problems, President Trump’s policies on the environment and immigration, and why his company gets a bad rap on AI.
by Nanette Byrnes
Digital Transformation: Using Hybrid, Flexible IT to Accelerate Time to Value
Produced in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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How Flexible IT Can Solve Complex Business Problems
From the data center to the cloud and the network edge, emerging technologies are helping companies accelerate time to value
by MIT Technology Review Custom
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A Fireside Chat: Unlocking the Power of Hybrid, Flexible IT
In order to thrive in today’s demanding business environment, here’s how savvy organizations are using emerging technologies like hybrid IT to achieve agility from the data center to the network edge.
by MIT Technology Review Custom
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A Field Guide to Digital Transformation
Hybrid IT, edge computing and other advanced technologies can help companies accelerate time to value.
by MIT Technology Review Custom
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Interstellar travel and post-humans
The stupendous time-spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture.
by Martin Rees
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Robotics, Smart Materials, and their Future Impact for Humans
We are on the cusp of a robotics revolution in which the boundaries between artificial intelligence and biology are blurring.
by Jonathan Rossiter
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The Next Step in Finance: Exponential Banking
The current technological revolution is accelerating the transformation, not only of industry and business, but also of human lifestyles, culture, and, therefore, society as a whole.
by Francisco Gonzalez
