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Record labels are suing two leading AI startups and are reportedly exploring a licensing deal with YouTube—actions that will determine what the future of AI music sounds like, and if there is ...

Here’s how the funding could bring new energy technology to market. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every ...

Kenyan runners, like many others, are grappling with the impact of expensive, high-performance shoes. The track at Moi University’s Eldoret Town Campus doesn’t look like a facility designed ...

The growing business of surf pools wants to bring the ocean experience inland. But with many planned for areas facing water scarcity, who bears the cost? For nearly as long as surfing has existed ...

Researchers are increasingly turning to organ-on-a-chip technology for drug testing and other applications. In a clean room in his lab, Sean Moore peers through a microscope at a bit of intestine ...

Achim Menges uses computer-guided techniques designed to make buildings more sustainable and affordable. Humanity has long sought to tame wood into something more predictable. Sawmills manufacture ...

Pneumatic tubes were supposed to revolutionize the world but have fallen by the wayside. Except in hospitals. Pneumatic tubes were touted as something that would revolutionize the world.

You may not notice it, but your experience on any US government website is a carefully crafted experience. The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface. This public ...

With bodies that move and hands that wave, deepfakes just got a whole lot more realistic. Startup Synthesia’s AI-generated avatars are getting an update to make them even more realistic: They ...

AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive. First, a confession. I only got into playing video games a little over a year ago (I know, I know).

Engineers use the high-fidelity models to monitor operations, plan fixes, and troubleshoot problems. In January 2022, NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was approaching the end of its ...