I was honored when MIT Technology Review invited me to be the first guest curator of its 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Narrowing down the list was difficult. I wanted to choose things that not only will create headlines in 2019 but captured this moment in technological history—which got me thinking about […]
Ren Zhengfei, the reclusive founder and CEO of China’s embattled tech huge, Huawei, is defiant about American initiatives to impede his enterprise with lawsuits and limits. “There is no way the US can crush us,” Ren explained in a scarce new job interview with international media. “The planet simply cannot […]
Algorithms are biased—and Facebook’s is no exception. Just past week, the tech giant was sued by the US Section of Housing and Urban Growth about the way it let advertisers purposely goal their adverts by race, gender, and religion—all safeguarded courses below US regulation. The business introduced that it would […]
Under a California plan aimed at curbing local weather pollution, landowners across the US have acquired hundreds of millions of pounds for promised carbon dioxide reductions that may possibly not happen. The condition has issued carbon offset credits to initiatives that may overstate their emissions reductions by 80 million tons […]
Mobile-phone technological know-how has modified the way humans recognize and interact with the globe and with just about every other. It’s tricky to believe of a technologies that has more strongly shaped 21st-century dwelling. The latest technology—the fifth technology of mobile requirements, or 5G—is at the moment staying deployed in […]
Understanding exactly where we are in the pursuit of self-driving cars can be as confusing as understanding in which we are in the pursuit of AI. In excess of the past number of years, the flood of companies coming into the area and the continuous news updates have manufactured it […]
Roxanne Flick’s Abstraction furniture series tackles numerous troubles uncovered in artwork by way of a mirror, couch desk, and aspect table. Designs replacing the human physique, the relevance of operate, and in which the borders of layout are living are her focuses. Flick’s remedy is to create functional artwork which […]
The brass horns in the sculpture of Steve Parker make music… but not how you’d anticipate. In this electrified sculpture, a viewer’s contact activates attractive and unanticipated recordings. Quite a few of his interactive is effective are on view at the Cue Art Basis in New York in the ought […]
Encouraged by both mother nature and existence, Chinese outside furnishings brand name KUNDESIGN welcomed the 25th anniversary of MAISON&OBJET with their current collections as nicely as new operates. This year’s topic for the exhibit – Ready for the New Era! – questioned attending makes to examine the wants and expectations […]
Motivated by both nature and lifetime, Chinese outside home furniture model KUNDESIGN welcomed the 25th anniversary of MAISON&OBJET with their existing collections as nicely as new performs. This year’s theme for the exhibit – Prepared for the New Technology! – requested attending manufacturers to investigate the demands and expectations of […]