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The internet of things turned every device in your house into a smart something. Now it’s coming for nature—to track forest fires and tree health or to listen out for threatened animals. Read more

The restaurant featured in the hit TV show Midnight Diner is a wholly a fictitious izakaya. On a recent trip to Tokyo, I set out to find it anyway. Read more

Once an internet cause célèbre, this year lots of folks turned cold on Spotify Wrapped. TikTok’s year in review also felt unsurprising. Maybe our platforms know less about us than we think. Read more

Next month, MIT Technology Review will unveil the 2025 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Every year, our newsroom looks across the fields we cover for technologies that are having a true breakthrough moment. This annual package highlights the technologies that we think matter most right now.  We define ‘breakthrough’ in a few ways—perhaps there’s been… Read more

Sports science company Okkulo has shown that its specially lit training environment can improve players’ visual-motor skills—and a growing number of sports are starting to test it out. Read more

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. There’s a new film about IVF out on Netflix. And “everyone in the field [of reproductive medicine] has watched it,” according to one embryologist I spoke to recently.… Read more

Roughly 10 years since the original, this vibrating pendant is a reminder that good things can come in small packages. Read more

Bank holding company Ally Financial is determined to stay at the cutting edge of technology in the financial industry. Today, that means leveraging gen AI to transform its business. But Ally is part of a highly regulated industry, which has seen many banks and financial institutions delayed by regulations. Ally’s answer? Develop an AI platform… Read more

In less than 10 minutes, a US teen made a small fortune selling off a memecoin he’d made on a lark. Traders, feeling swindled, sought revenge. Read more

The future of SAP architectures is hybrid. But according to a survey conducted by the Financials subgroup of the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG), where exactly the journey will go has not yet been decided for many organizations. Nearly half of SAP customers surveyed (47%) still work with on-prem SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), and… Read more