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To most people, rocks are just rocks. To geologists, they are much, much more: crystal-filled time capsules with the power to reveal the state of the planet at the very moment they were forged.  For decades, NASA had been on a time capsule hunt like none other—one across Mars. Its rovers have ...

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Listen to the session or watch below Sodium-based batteries could be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion, and the technology is finally making its way into cars—and energy storage arrays on the grid. Sodium-ion batteries are one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of ...

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Crime issue Technology has long made crime and its prosecution a game of cat and mouse. But those same new technologies that have allowed crime ...

Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.

As of recent, the AI community has shifted its obsession from chatbots to agents. At the center of this storm is OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot), an open-source framework that allows AI to live on your hardware and act on your behalf. However, a massive rift has formed in the developer community: The ...

A few years ago, generating an image from text felt magical. Then text-to-video turned prompts into moving scenes. Now models generate complete video sequences without cameras, actors, or editing timelines. ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 pushes this further. Instead of short silent clips, it delivers a ...

The generative AI race has long been a game of ‘bigger is better.’ But as the industry hits the limits of power consumption and memory bottlenecks, the conversation is shifting from raw parameter counts to architectural efficiency. Liquid AI team is leading this charge with the release of ...

While the tech folks obsesses over the latest Llama checkpoints, a much grittier battle is being fought in the basements of data centers. As AI models scale to trillions of parameters, the clusters required to train them have become some of the most complex—and fragile—machines on the planet. Meta ...

The boom of a calving glacier. The crackling rumble of a wildfire. The roar of a surging storm front. They’re the noises of the living Earth, music of this one particular sphere and clues to the true nature of these dramatic events. But as loud as all these things are, they emit even more acoustic…