The company is imposing new guardrails on its police tech after reports that officers are abusing it and cities are dropping contracts. But the changes leave glaring loopholes. The police-tech giant ...

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El Niño? Climate change? All of the above? This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere. June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began.

How companies are freeing themselves of legacy data systems to power AI agents that deliver trusted, autonomous action.

Rising temperatures can affect our power supply, including nuclear and natural-gas power plants. Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid is being pushed to its limits as ...

On September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking scientific work and building ...

Our 2026 Innovators Under 35 list will be out soon. Here’s what we looked for as we sifted through 550 nominations from ...

AI agents that can model the human process of research will accelerate discoveries in science. Every few decades, someone ...

The sex reversal technique could be used to help rescue endangered species, say the researchers behind the work.

AI agents can instead model the iterative, highly contingent process of actual research. While tools like AlphaFold apply a ...

Senior reporter Eileen Guo has been following an idea that moved from the fringes of the right-wing Internet to drive Trump policy.