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Roundtables: Unveiling the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025Recorded on January 3, 2025 Unveiling the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025 Speakers: Amy Nordrum, executive editor, and Charlotte Jee, news editor. Each year, MIT Technology Review publishes an annual list of the top ten breakthrough technologies that will have the greatest impact on how we live and work in the future. This year, the…
The Download: feeding the world with poop, and 2024’s performing storiesThis 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. How poop could help feed the planet A new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of futuristic technology. It can safely treat fecal waste from people and livestock while…Robotaxis: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025WHO Baidu, Pony AI, Waymo, Wayve, Zoox WHEN Now If you live in certain cities in America or China, you’ve probably spotted driverless cars dropping off passengers. Perhaps you’ve even ridden in one yourself. That’s a radical change from even three years ago, when these services were still learning the rules of the road. And…
Stem-cell therapies that work: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025WHO California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Neurona Therapeutics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals WHEN 5 years A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from embryos created through in vitro fertilization. These cells, theoretically able to morph into any tissue in the human body, promised a medical revolution. Think: replacement parts for whatever ails you. But stem-cell science…
Fast-learning robots: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025WHO Agility, Amazon, Covariant, Robust, Toyota Research Institute WHEN Now Generative AI is causing a paradigm shift in how robots are trained. It’s now clear how we might finally build the sort of truly capable robots that have for decades remained the stuff of science fiction. Robotics researchers are no strangers to artificial intelligence—it has…
Cleaner jet fuel: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025WHO Gevo, LanzaJet, Montana Renewables, Neste, World Energy WHEN Now All the world’s planes consumed roughly 100 billion gallons of jet fuel as they crisscrossed the planet in 2024. Only about 0.5% of it was something other than fossil fuel. That could soon change. Alternative jet fuels could slash aviation emissions—which have caused about 4%…
Cattle burping remedies: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025WHO Blue Ocean Barns, DSM-Firmenich, Rumin8, Symbrosia WHEN Now Companies are finally making real progress on one of the trickiest problems for climate change: cow burps. The world’s herds of cattle belch out methane as a by-product of digestion, as do sheep and goats. That powerful greenhouse gas makes up the single biggest source of…
Generative AI search: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025WHO Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity WHEN Now Google’s introduction of AI Overviews, powered by its Gemini language model, will alter how billions of people search the internet. And generative search may be the first step toward an AI agent that handles any question you have or task you need done. Rather than returning…
Long-acting HIV prevention meds: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025WHO Gilead Sciences, GSK, ViiV Healthcare WHEN 1 to 3 years In June 2024, results from a trial of a new medicine to prevent HIV were announced—and they were jaw-dropping. Lenacapavir, a treatment injected once every six months, protected over 5,000 girls and women in Uganda and South Africa from getting HIV. And it was…
Vera C. Rubin Observatory: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025WHO US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, US National Science Foundation WHEN 6 months The next time you glance up at the night sky, consider: The particles inside everything you can see make up only about 5% of what’s out there in the universe. Dark energy and dark matter constitute the rest, astronomers…
Small language models: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025WHO Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI WHEN Now Make no mistake: Size matters in the AI world. When OpenAI launched GPT-3 back in 2020, it was the largest language model ever built. The firm showed that supersizing this type of model was enough to send performance through the roof. That…
How poop could help feed the planetA new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of futuristic technology. It can safely treat fecal waste from people and livestock while recycling nutrients that are crucial for agriculture but in increasingly short supply across the nation’s farmlands. Within the 2.3-acre plant, which smells lightly of ammonia, giant rotating spindles turn…Jobs of the future: Stool bank managerEach year, about half a million Americans are diagnosed with Clostridioides difficile, a common bacterial infection of the large intestine. Only some patients respond to antibiotics. Infection recurs in about 20% of patients and proves fatal in about 30,000 cases annually. But there is a highly effective, albeit unconventional, treatment: fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), which…
The Download: AI flops, and what the year ahead holds for EVsThis 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. The biggest AI flops of 2024 The past 12 months have been undeniably busy for those working in AI. There have been more successful product launches than we can count, and even Nobel…
How wind tech could help decarbonize cargo shippingInhabitants of the Marshall Islands—a chain of coral atolls in the center of the Pacific Ocean—rely on sea transportation for almost everything: moving people from one island to another, importing daily necessities from faraway nations, and exporting their local produce. For millennia they sailed largely in canoes, but much of their seafaring movement today involves…Why EVs are (mostly) set for solid growth in 2025MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. It looks as though 2025 will be a solid year for electric vehicles—at least outside the United States, where sales will depend on the incoming administration’s…
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready to transform our understanding of the cosmosHigh atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro Pachón, the air is clear and dry, leaving few clouds to block the beautiful view of the stars. It’s here that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon use a car-size 3,200-megapixel digital camera—the largest ever built—to produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days. Generating…The biggest AI flops of 2024The past 12 months have been undeniably busy for those working in AI. There have been more successful product launches than we can count, and even Nobel Prizes. But it hasn’t always been smooth sailing. AI is an unpredictable technology, and the increasing availability of generative models has led people to test their limits in…
The AI Hype Index: Robot pets, simulated humans, and Apple’s AI text summariesSeparating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. More than 70 countries went to the polls in 2024. The good news is that this year of global elections turned out to…
China wants to restore the sea with high-tech marine ranchesA short ferry ride from the port city of Yantai, on the northeast coast of China, sits Genghai No. 1, a 12,000-metric-ton ring of oil-rig-style steel platforms, advertised as a hotel and entertainment complex. On arrival, visitors step onto docks and climb up to reach a strange offshore facility—half cruise ship, half high-tech laboratory, all laid…
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Doublepoint releases WowMouse gesture app for Apple Watch to control your Mac devicesDoublepoint has released its WowMouse app for Apple Watch, which you can use to control your Mac devices with gestures.
Lymow unveils smart robotic mower with mulching blades and tracked threadsLymow said the Lymow One is the world's first smart robotic mower with mulching blades and tracked threads.
Eli Health introduces Hormometer to test your hormones on a smartphoneThis is how smart your smartphone is getting. Now it will be able to analyze your saliva and do a real-time hormone test.
Timekettle unveils Babel OS for AI simultaneous interpretation in language translation earbudsTimekettle has unveiled the Babel OS, its first-ever operating system designed to redefine its language translation earbuds.
Halliday unveils AI smart glasses with lens-free AR viewingHalliday has come up with eyewear we didn't know we needed: smart glasses with no lenses. Welcome to the age of AI smart glasses.
Tech trends at CES 2025 favor growth, so long as trade war doesn’t start | CTAThe tech market in the U.S. is expected to grow a few percent in 2025 to $537 billion, so long as there isn't a trade war.
Why context-aware AI agents will give us superpowers in 2025In 2025, augmented mentality will emerge from the convergence of AI agents, conversational computing and augmented reality.
Reelables lets you track packages using paper-based electronicsReelables is showing a new way to track shipped packages using inexpensive paper-based electronics that are on one side of a shipping label.
Phantom data centers: What they are (or aren’t) and why they’re hampering the true promise of AISo-called fake data centers are a bottleneck to scaling infrastructure to keep up with compute demand for AI and other critical workloads.
Nuwa Pen uses computer vision and motion sensing to digitize the words you write on paperNuwa Pen is a smart ballpoint pen that digitizes the words you write on paper as you write them. Can smart pens make a comeback?
Sassy Chap Games on launching Date Everything into tricky marketDate Everything is one of 2025's most unusual titles. Sassy Chap's Robbie Daymond speaks about the game's creation and launch.
How to map OpenAI’s ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode to your iPhone action buttonMapping ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode to the new physical Action Button on the side of newer iPhones, just above the volume up and down.
CES 2025 preview: What to expect at tech’s biggest show | The DeanBeatNext week at the CES 2025 trade show in Las Vegas, we'll once again be able to see and hear about the latest tech trends in person.
Visionary Realms’ Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen sees success in early accessVisionary Realms is an ambitious game studio that recently launched early access for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, a classic fantasy MMO.
How Meta’s latest research proves you can use generative AI to understand user intentBy thinking about recommendation as a generative problem, you can tackle it from new angles and use LLMs to better understand user intent.
Swave Photonics raises $28.3M for 3D holographic smartglasses and displaysSwave Photonics, a holographic display company, has raised $28.27 million in funding as it prepares components for AI-powered smart glasses.
Later acquires social influencer app Mavely for $250MLater, an influencer marketing and social media management firm, is acquiring social influencer app Mavely for $250 million.
AARP’s AgeTech Investor Network is helping tech entrepreneurs target the aging populationAARP has started its AgeTech Investor Network, aimed at helping startups get off the ground in the AgeTech market.
Why Yat Siu believes 2025 will be the year for real blockchain gamesYat Siu, executive chairman of Animoca Brands, has made 540 investments into blockchain games. We talked to him about the 2025 outlook.
GamesBeat writer Rachel Kaser’s Top 5 Games of 2024GamesBeat news writer Rachel Kaser lists the games of 2024 that she most enjoyed and which she found to be the best experiences.Netflix’s Squid Game: Unleashed hits No. 1 top free game in 24 countriesNetflix announced that its Squid Game: Unleashed mobile game has reached No. 1 Top Free Action Game in 57 countries
How Saga Origins is exploring the boundaries of Web3 games | Rebecca Liao interviewRebecca Liao, CEO of Saga, talked to us about the boundaries of provocative games on the Saga blockchain.
Inside the AI agent revolution: How data-driven automation transformed the enterprise in 2024In a recent survey, 82% of tech executives said they intend to integrate AI agents across their stacks within the next three years.
Why 2025 will redefine data infrastructure: 11 expert insights on sovereign clouds, exploding data, PaaS and moreKey predictions from data infrastructure industry experts and vendors to help enterprises tap the AI opportunity for growth in 2025.
In memoriam: Team17 cofounder Martyn Brown and other game devs who died in 2024Martyn Brown, cofounder of Team17 and a 35-year game industry veteran, has passed away at age 57. Brown started Team17 with Debbie Bestwick and Michael Robinson in 1990. Brown helped create more than 50 video games including Worms and Alien Breed. He also formed consultancy Insight For Hire and helped support studios Double Eleven, Exient, […]
Forrester on cybersecurity budgeting: 2025 will be the year of CISO fiscal accountabilityWith 90% of cybersecurity and risk leaders predicting they'll see budget increases in 2025, many are facing a new era of accountability.
Why 2025 will be the year of AI orchestrationFor many, 2025 will be the year of AI agents, when pilot programs, experiments and use cases converge into something resembling ROI. 
Scopely scores a billion downloads and $10B in revenue to dateScopely announced several key milestones achieved to date: $10 billion in lifetime revenue for its mobile games and a billion downloads.
Nvidia to open-source Run:ai, the software it acquired for $700M to help companies manage GPUs for AINvidia has completed its acquisition of Run:ai, a software company that makes it easier for customers to orchestrate GPU clouds for AI.