Roundtables: Generative AI Search and the Changing Internet

Roundtables: Generative AI Search and the Changing Internet

Recorded on February 18, 2025 Generative AI Search and the Changing Internet Speakers: Mat Honan, editor in chief, and Niall Firth, executive editor. Generative AI search, one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025, is ushering a new era of the internet. Despite fewer clicks…Read More

The Download: 4G on the moon, and parenting in the digital age

The Download: 4G on the moon, and parenting in the digital age

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. Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon Later this month, Intuitive Machines, the private company behind the first commercial lander that touched down on the moon…Read More

Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon

Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon

Later this month, Intuitive Machines, the private company behind the first commercial lander that touched down on the moon, will launch a second lunar mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The plan is to deploy a lander, a rover, and hopper to explore a site near the lunar south pole that could harbor water ice,……Read […]

Inside China’s electric-vehicle-to-humanoid-robot pivot

Inside China’s electric-vehicle-to-humanoid-robot pivot

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. While DOGE’s efforts to shutter federal agencies dominate news from Washington, the Trump administration is also making more global moves. Many of these center on China…Read More

How to have a child in the digital age

How to have a child in the digital age

When the journalist and culture critic Amanda Hess got pregnant with her first child, in 2020, the internet was among the first to know. “More brands knew about my pregnancy than people did,” she writes of the torrent of targeted ads that came her way. “They all called me mama.”  The internet held the promise……Read […]

Samsung Galaxy A06 5G launches in India with Dimensity 6300, 4 OS updates

Samsung Galaxy A06 5G launches in India with Dimensity 6300, 4 OS updates

The new Samsung Galaxy A06 5G is the first 5G-capable phone in the A0 family. And despite its modest price of ₹10,500, it promises 4 OS updates – that’s as much as some flagships are getting (and doubles what others are). The phone is powered by the Dimensity 6300 and supports 12 5G bands…Read More