MIT Technology Review

The idea that particular individuals drive history has long been discredited. Yet it persists in the tech industry, obscuring some of the fundamental factors in innovation.

Every sporting event tells a story. Now the first computational analysis of “game stories” suggests that future sports could be designed to prefer certain kinds of stories over others.

By turning stem cells taken from autistic patients into tiny “organoids” that closely resemble the brains of human embryos, researchers have gleaned potentially valuable insights into what may go wrong […]

A new approach to robot learning was tested in Minecraft, the popular open-ended computer game.

While the technology has improved immensely in the last couple years, there are still plenty of crucial issues to be sorted out—among them that feeling of motion sickness that some […]

Supercharge your immune cells to defeat cancer? Juno Therapeutics believes its treatments can do exactly that.

A groundbreaking online-spying case unearths details that companies wish you didn’t know about how vital information slips away from them.

The official map of the human genome can’t tell you everything about your genes. Does graph theory offer a better way?

For years, the most important food technologies were all about scale. How could we feed a fast-growing population at less expense? By doing everything bigger: food grown on bigger farms […]