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Water shortages in Southern California made an indelible impression on Evelyn Wang ’00 when she was growing up in Los Angeles. “I was quite young, perhaps in first grade,” she says. “But I remember we weren’t allowed to turn our sprinklers on. And everyone in the neighborhood was given disinfectant...
MIT 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. In an industry in constant flux, sticking your neck out to predict what’s coming next may seem reckless. (AI bubble? What AI...
We’re in the midst of a global mental-health crisis. More than a billion people worldwide suffer from a mental-health condition, according to the World Health Organization. The prevalence of anxiety and depression is growing in many demographics, particularly young people, and suicide is claiming...
Pollution from textile production—dyes, chemicals, and heavy metals like lead and cadmium—is common in the waters of the Buriganga River as it runs through Dhaka, Bangladesh. It’s among many harms posed by a garment sector that was once synonymous with tragedy: In 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza...
Vous connaissez l'histoire de la NES ? Celle du petit robot R.O.B. qui a aidé à ressusciter l'industrie du jeu vidéo américaine en 1985 ? Hé bien la Video Game History Foundation vient de sortir un documentaire d'une heure qui raconte tout ce qu'on ne vous a jamais dit sur le lancement de cette...
Climate news hasn’t been great in 2025. Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit record highs (again). This year is set to be either the second or third warmest on record. Climate-fueled disasters like wildfires in California and flooding in Indonesia and Pakistan devastated communities and caused...
Vous connaissez ce rêve de dev qui consiste à tout plaquer pour faire LE jeu qu'on a toujours voulu faire ? Yoshinama, un YouTuber japonais avec plus d'un million d'abonnés, l'a fait et pas qu'un peu puisqu'il a sorti 25 millions de yens de sa poche, soit environ 160 000 dollars, pour créer Mamon...
The earth around Lake Naivasha, a shallow freshwater basin in south-central Kenya, does not seem to want to lie still. Ash from nearby Mount Longonot, which erupted as recently as the 1860s, remains in the ground. Obsidian caves and jagged stone towers preside over the steam that spurts out...
Vous vous souvenez d'ARPANET, ce réseau militaire américain des années 60-70 qui a donné naissance à Internet ? En 2006, les États-Unis ont remis le couvert avec GENI, un autre réseau de recherche afin de tester les technologies futures du web et qui a fonctionné durant plus d'une décennie avant de...
Vous pensiez que les cafards servaient juste à vous faire flipper quand vous allumez la lumière de la cuisine de votre Airbnb à 3h du mat (Oui c'est une histoire vraie que j'ai vécue) ? Hé bien une startup allemande a décidé de leur donner une seconde vie un peu plus... stratégique. SWARM...
Omar Yaghi was a quiet child, diligent, unlikely to roughhouse with his nine siblings. So when he was old enough, his parents tasked him with one of the family’s most vital chores: fetching water. Like most homes in his Palestinian neighborhood in Amman, Jordan, the Yaghis’ had no electricity or...
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. 4 technologies that didn’t make our 2026 breakthroughs list If you’re a longtime reader, you probably know that our newsroom selects 10...