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. South Africa’s private surveillance...
“Vumacam’s technology is honed for the purpose of preventing crime and as such does not have mass surveillance capability nor intention,” says Pearman. “The concerns of...
In part two, we head to Venezuela, where AI data-labeling firms found cheap and desperate workers amid a devastating economic crisis, creating a new model of...
In the US, for instance, during much of the 20th century the various regions of the country were—in the language of economists—“converging,” and financial disparities decreased....
Economist Matteo Benetton, a coauthor of the paper and a professor at the Hass School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, says that crypto...
To support MIT Technology Review’s journalism, please consider becoming a subscriber. DeFi—an idea similar to smart contracts—is all about transparency and open-source code as an ideology....
Meanwhile, young financial services companies were coming to market with innovative products and services and NAB was finding it difficult to compete. “Many customers today are...
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” 5G-powered digitization promises to accelerate connectivity-led transformation in an increasingly hyperconnected world,...
Most aging clocks estimate a person’s biological age based on patterns of epigenetic markers—specifically, chemical tags called methyl groups that are layered onto DNA and affect...
“We are cashless,” proclaims a sign on the gleaming glass door of the cafe I frequent. The sign predates the glossy list of covid-19 measures taped...