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The Download: the North Pole’s future and humanoid data
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta have all set AI spending recordsCollectively, they’re up 71% on...
Essential Gear for an Emergency Kit—for Cars or Go-Bags
You never know when you're going to have to bug out on short notice. The politics of the moment are less than predictable. Disasters never strike on schedule, and...
The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents
—Casey Crownhart This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday. Orchestrated agents are coming for...
Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Gets a Dark Mode (2026)
I'm a nighttime reader. I usually read in the dark with my e-reader of choice in its native dark mode (if you're unfamiliar, it's the mode that turns the...
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Light Phone Is Making Its Dumb Phone More Useful With Third-Party...
Time and time again, owners of dumb phones—or minimalist phones—turn to their niche communities asking for extra features for their pared-down devices: an authenticator...
The Download: the North Pole’s future and humanoid data
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta have all set AI spending...
Essential Gear for an Emergency Kit—for Cars or Go-Bags
You never know when you're going to have to bug out on short notice. The politics of the moment are less than predictable. Disasters...
The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents
—Casey Crownhart This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday....
Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Gets a Dark Mode (2026)
I'm a nighttime reader. I usually read in the dark with my e-reader of choice in its native dark mode (if you're unfamiliar, it's...
The Download: Musk and Altman’s legal showdown, and AI’s profit problem
Cheap, accessible models now produce weaponized deepfakes—from sexually explicit images to political propaganda—that look startlingly real. They’re already inciting violence, changing minds, and sowing...
