Tag: MIT Technology Review

India’s 2070 net-zero pledge is achievable, appropriate, and right on time (Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review)

India has officially joined the net-zero pledge club, and its 2070 target presents a reasonable, if challenging, timeline for the country. The commitment was...

(Cybersecurity) Hackers are finding ways to hide inside Apple’s walled garden (MIT Technology Review)

Patrick Howell O'Neill The iPhone’s locked-down approach to security is spreading, but advanced hackers have found that higher barriers are great for avoiding capture. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/01/1020089/apple-walled-garden-hackers-protected/?truid=&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=03-01-2021&mc_cid=0edceb332a&mc_eid=e4d30af98f

(Technology) 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021 (MIT Technology Review)

This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year’s most important technologies. Some, such as mRNA vaccines, are...

(Australia/Big Tech) Australia has become the battleground for a power struggle between governments and Big Tech (MIT Technology Review)

The news: Australians woke up on Thursday to Facebook timelines devoid of any news. Faced with the option of either paying to link back to...

(USA/NASA/Space) NASA’s Perseverance rover is about to start searching for life on Mars (MIT Technology Review)

Neel V. Patel If the rover makes a safe landing at Jezero crater, it will begin one of the most ambitious missions NASA has ever...

(Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini (MIT Technology Review)

Karen Hao https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/29/1017065/ai-image-generation-is-racist-sexist/?truid=&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=02-01-2021&mc_cid=fa03284a78&mc_eid=e4d30af98f

(USA) People are fed up with broken vaccine appointment tools — so they’re building their own (MIT Technology Review)

Tanya Basu https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/01/1016725/people-are-building-their-own-vaccine-appointment-tools/?truid=&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=02-01-2021&mc_cid=fa03284a78&mc_eid=e4d30af98f

(USA) What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? (MIT Technology Review)

Cat Ferguson https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-million-vaccine-data-vams-problems/?truid=&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=02-01-2021&mc_cid=fa03284a78&mc_eid=e4d30af98f