Author: Rahul

How measuring vaccine hesitancy could help health professionals tackle it

How measuring vaccine hesitancy could help health professionals tackle it

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US’s health agencies…Read More

Three questions about the future of US climate tech under Trump

Three questions about the future of US climate tech under Trump

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Donald Trump has officially been in office for just over a week, and the new administration has hit the ground running with a blizzard of executive orders and memos…Read More

This quantum computer built on server racks paves the way to bigger machines

This quantum computer built on server racks paves the way to bigger machines

A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a new quantum computer it says can be easily scaled up to achieve the computational power needed to tackle scientific challenges ranging from drug discovery to more energy-efficient machine learning. Aurora is a “photonic” quantum computer, which means it crunches numbers using photonic qubits—information encoded in light…Read More

The Download: mice with two dads, and Meta’s fact-checking challenges

The Download: mice with two dads, and Meta’s fact-checking challenges

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. Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR What’s new: Mice with two fathers have been born—and have survived to adulthood—following a complex set of experiments by a team in China…Read More