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By now, you’ve likely seen the short videos produced using AI video-generation tools, which make it possible to create photorealistic clips of several seconds from a simple text prompt. An Indian startup is now pushing the technology to its limits: It plans to release, by the end of 2025, a feature-length movie created almost entirely… Read more

These beard tools deliver a quality trim for all types of facial hair. Read more

There’s nothing more done to death than the vampire. Director Robert Eggers says he tried to avoid the obvious by returning to “the older folklore.” Read more

AI voice cloning and deepfakes are supercharging scams. One method to protect your loved ones and yourself is to create secret code words to verify someone’s identity in real time. Read more

The worst technologies of 2024. The future of mixed reality. AI’s impact on the climate. These are just a few of the topics we covered this year in MIT Technology Review’s monthly event series, Roundtables.  The series offers a unique opportunity to hear straight from our reporters and editors about what’s next for emerging technologies.… Read more

As we run, drive, bike, and fly, we leave behind telltale marks of our movements on Earth—if you know where to look. Physical tracks, thermal signatures, and chemical traces can reveal where we’ve been. But another type of trail we leave comes from the radio signals emitted by the cars, planes, trains, and boats we… Read more

The IT help desk is often considered the “dungeon” department in most IT organizations: a place where those who can’t excel at anything more meaningful in IT are left to linger, or those who are just starting out in IT must prove their mettle before launching their “true” IT careers. The help desk can also… Read more

Cuando su director ejecutivo o director financiero le pregunta sobre el presupuesto necesario para la remediación de la deuda técnica, ¿se encuentra con dificultades para justificar la inversión? No es el único. Si bien los directores de TI comprenden el peso aplastante de la deuda técnica, traducir esto a un lenguaje empresarial convincente para la junta… Read more

Your physical and mental well-being are crucial—but the picture isn’t complete if you aren’t flexing your connection muscles, too. Here’s how to build—and keep—your social health. Read more

FineWeb2 significantly advances multilingual pretraining datasets, covering over 1000 languages with high-quality data. The dataset uses approximately 8 terabytes of compressed text data and contains nearly 3 trillion words, sourced from 96 CommonCrawl snapshots between 2013 and 2024. Processed using the datatrove library, FineWeb2 demonstrates superior performance compared to established datasets like CC-100, mC4, CulturaX,… Read more