Why Chinese apps chose to film super-short soap operas in Southeast Asia
Catch up with China 1. Two influential Chinese bloggers in exile have been sharing uncensored news about…
Is there anything more fascinating than a hidden world?
Technology has long played the spoiler to these worlds in hiding. We have used ships, airplanes, and rockets to…
Journey to the eclipse | MIT Technology Review
Today, NASA operates a fleet of 27 spacecraft to study the sun. NASA even sent a probe to scoop up plasma and…
Precision Fermentation Ingredients Market Size, Trends, and Forecast
The global precision fermentation ingredients market size is estimated to be valued at USD 2.8 billion…
Top Changes in the Retail Market
One of the most promising changes in the retail market has been the regrowth of consumer…
The first-ever mission to pull a dead rocket out of space has just begun
There are an estimated 500,000 pieces of space junk as small as a centimeter across orbiting Earth, and about…
The Download: tiny TikTok-style soap operas, and how algorithms change us
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1…
How Wi-Fi sensing became usable tech
“Even if your data is encrypted,” says Patwari, “somebody sitting outside of your house could get information…
Bans on deepfakes take us only so far—here’s what we really need
Rules that require all AI-generated content to be watermarked are impossible to enforce, and it’s also highly…
Algorithms are everywhere | MIT Technology Review
“The present is not a prison sentence, but merely our current snapshot,” they write. “We don’t have to use…