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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
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.
Intelligent Machines
Apple Isn’t as Late to Automated Driving as You Might Think
Several companies have a head start in building self-driving cars, but Apple has a surprising amount of relevant experience.
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.
Connectivity
Wait, Why Does Trump Want to Change America’s Air Traffic Control System?
The president is right when he says that the nation’s air traffic control system is old and is taking a long time to modernize.
Connectivity
The Quest for a Functional New Interface for the Smartphone
Fingertips Lab’s iPhone-controlling gadget is a good idea that needs a lot of work.
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Features
Business Impact
Blood from the Sky: 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.
View from the Marketplace
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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Mainstream Machine Learning, from hype to how-to
View from the Marketplace
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
We Need More Alternatives to Facebook
Chastened by the negative effects of social media, Mark Zuckerberg says he will tweak his service and upgrade society in the process. Should any company be that powerful?
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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China’s Central Bank Has Begun Cautiously Testing a Digital Currency
The People’s Bank of China has developed a digital currency that’s designed to scale to the number of transactions made every day across the country.
by Will Knight
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Tesla’s New AI Guru Could Help Its Cars Teach Themselves
Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s new director of artificial intelligence, will help the company’s vehicles teach themselves to drive.
by Will Knight
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Watch videos of today’s leading technologists talking about tomorrow’s advances in artificial intelligence.
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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Blood from the Sky: 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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Innovations, Ideas, and Insights
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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
