Cover Story
Rising Seas Lift an Industry
For the Dutch masters of water management, climate change is a boon.
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Your guide to what matters today
05.18
Big Data, Big Business
Big data is transforming business today. Here’s how Oracle is mining its cutting-edge strategies.
Presented in partnership with Oracle
Social needs
Tech Slowdown Threatens the American Dream
Despite the allure of apps and social media, today’s digital technologies are doing little to generate the kind of prosperity that previous generations enjoyed, a prominent economist argues. But that doesn’t mean we should give up on innovation.
Tomorrow's machines
China Is Building a Robot Army of Model Workers
Can China reboot its manufacturing industry—and the global economy—by replacing millions of workers with machines?
Big data
How Political Candidates Know If You’re Neurotic
The latest data-driven campaign pitches target you based on your personality, not just your demographics. But does such profiling work?
View from the Marketplace
How Data Capital Creates Competitive Advantage
Data-capital tools are available to established companies and startups alike. The real trick: Determining which business activities generate the most valuable data.
Features
Beyond silicon
Moore’s Law Is Dead. Now What?
Shrinking transistors have powered 50 years of advances in computing—but now other ways must be found to make computers more capable.
Taking on the Cybersecurity Challenge
Produced by MIT Technology Review Custom, in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and FireEye
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Once More Unto the Breach: What It Takes to Defeat Cyberattackers
Cyberattacks are a fact of life across the world, as intruders breach more and more organizations each day. Why are we so vulnerable? And what can we do to make our systems more secure?
by MIT Technology Review Custom
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Crisis Communication After an Attack
If there’s one area where organizations stumble when responding to breaches, it’s in keeping stakeholders informed. Doing that job well starts well before cybercriminals come calling.
by MIT Technology Review Custom
Robotics
Smart machines are beginning to speak to us and act on their own.
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Chinese Bid for Kuka Shows How Serious It Is About Robots
A Chinese company’s attempt to buy the German robotics giant is the latest sign of the country’s ambitions to lead a revolution in advanced manufacturing.
by Will Knight
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Google Finally Launches a Siri Killer in Pivot Away from Conventional Search
The Google Assistant is an answer to Siri that has greater powers of conversation and will take over your home.
by Tom Simonite
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Self-Driving Trucks May Hit the Road Before Google’s Cars
Retrofitting long-haul rigs could speed up the adoption of self-driving technology—provided regulators let them roll.
by Will Knight
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Internet access
Wireless, Super-Fast Internet Access Is Coming to Your Home
The Supreme Court shut down his last venture, Aereo, after it riled TV broadcasters. Now Chet Kanojia wants to overturn how broadband is delivered.
Energy
Can we transform how we power and feed the world in time to head off climate change?
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Floating Wind Farms: Great Concept, Implausible Economics
There are much stronger winds the further offshore you go, but capturing them and turning them into electricity has proved uneconomical.
by Richard Martin
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Rwanda Inaugurates Groundbreaking Methane Power Project
First-of-its-kind project to extract gas—and avert catastrophe—comes online on Central Africa’s Lake Kivu.
by Jonathan W. Rosen
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New Methane Rules Will Curb Emissions, but the EPA Still Has to Measure Them Accurately
The problem with regulating methane emissions is that it’s hard to measure them.
by Richard Martin
Innovations, Ideas, and Insights
Provided by BBVA
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Striving for Innovation Success in the 21st Century
Open innovation bridges the gap between business and academia. It encourages participation on both sides, through a distributed and decentralized approach.
by Henry Chesbrough, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
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Business Models, Information Technology, and the Company of the Future
by Haim Mendelson, Stanford University