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Top www.technologyreview.com stories from the past year

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1.

Apple says researchers can vet its CSAM tools, but is suing a startup that can. (www.technologyreview.com)

36 points by webmobdev 2021-08-18 | 2 comments

2.

Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments (www.technologyreview.com)

18 points by minimumvector 2022-06-27 | 1 comments

3.

Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade (www.technologyreview.com)

15 points by furcyd 2021-11-03 | 2 comments

4.

If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? (www.technologyreview.com)

14 points by galaxyLogic 2021-11-19 | 8 comments

5.

Meta has built a new language AI–and it’s giving it away for free (www.technologyreview.com)

14 points by mgl 2022-06-27 | 0 comments

6.

The 50-year-old P-NP problem that eludes theoretical computer science (www.technologyreview.com)

13 points by 8bitsrule 2021-10-28 | 1 comments

7.

After George Floyd’s murder, police built a secretive surveillance machine (www.technologyreview.com)

9 points by jbegley 2022-03-03 | 0 comments

8.

The NSA spies shaping the future (www.technologyreview.com)

8 points by caaqil 2022-02-01 | 0 comments

9.

She’s at the center of the lab leak controversy. Now she’s telling her story (www.technologyreview.com)

7 points by johndfsgdgdfg 2022-04-13 | 0 comments

10.

Chinese hackers disguised themselves as Iran to target Israel (www.technologyreview.com)

6 points by fortran77 2021-08-11 | 0 comments

11.

How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation (www.technologyreview.com)

6 points by RageoftheRobots 2021-11-20 | 0 comments

12.

Sony’s racing AI destroyed its human competitors by being nice (and fast) (www.technologyreview.com)

6 points by isaacfrond 2022-07-20 | 1 comments

13.

Yann LeCun has a bold new vision for the future of AI (www.technologyreview.com)

6 points by mgl 2022-07-03 | 0 comments

14.

The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse (www.technologyreview.com)

5 points by mmettler 2022-01-03 | 0 comments

15.

Russia is risking the creation of a “splinternet”–and it could be irreversible (www.technologyreview.com)

5 points by gmays 2022-03-18 | 1 comments

16.

A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed (2020) (www.technologyreview.com)

5 points by dredmorbius 2022-02-10 | 2 comments

17.

Anti-abortion activists collecting data they’ll need for prosecutions post-Roe (www.technologyreview.com)

5 points by Bud 2022-06-01 | 1 comments

18.

VR is as good as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence (www.technologyreview.com)

5 points by amynordrum 2022-08-06 | 2 comments

19.

The radical intervention that might save the “doomsday” glacier (www.technologyreview.com)

5 points by pseudolus 2022-01-15 | 0 comments

20.

US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth (www.technologyreview.com)

5 points by dxs 2022-07-14 | 0 comments

21.

Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited users (www.technologyreview.com)

5 points by pseudolus 2022-04-10 | 0 comments

22.

Altos Labs, Silicon Valley’s latest wild bet on living forever (www.technologyreview.com)

5 points by geox 2021-09-06 | 0 comments

23.

Activists are targeting Russians with open-source “protestware” (www.technologyreview.com)

5 points by 22222 2022-03-21 | 0 comments

24.

MIT startup announces 256-qubit quantum computer (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by dr_dshiv 2021-11-17 | 1 comments

25.

US company sold iPhone hacking tools to UAE spies (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by 1cvmask 2021-09-16 | 0 comments

26.

Brain implants could be the next computer mouse (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by ofou 2021-11-20 | 0 comments

27.

US company sold iPhone hacking tools to UAE spies (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by fortran77 2021-09-15 | 0 comments

28.

We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law (2020) (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by Trouble_007 2022-05-08 | 2 comments

29.

2021 has broken the record for zero-day hacking attacks (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by 0xedb 2021-09-28 | 0 comments

30.

It’s okay to opt out of the crypto revolution (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by marban 2022-07-12 | 1 comments

31.

Is Ginkgo’s synthetic-biology story worth $15B? (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by IdoRA 2021-08-29 | 0 comments

32.

Crypto millionaires are pouring money into Central America (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by plumeria 2022-04-24 | 1 comments

33.

Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: Worldcoin recruitment (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by NelsonMinar 2022-04-07 | 1 comments

34.

Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by tomtung 2022-02-11 | 4 comments

35.

Is Ginkgo’s synthetic-biology story worth $15B? (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by IdoRA 2021-09-17 | 1 comments

36.

Scientist now believes Covid started in Wuhan’s wet market. Here’s why (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by MarcScott 2021-11-29 | 0 comments

37.

We Drained California Dry (www.technologyreview.com)

4 points by jelliclesfarm 2022-01-04 | 2 comments

38.

Tesla is making its own AI chips (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by mardiyah 2021-09-06 | 0 comments

39.

Tinder “Feedback Loop” Forces Men and Women into Extreme Strategies (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by galaxyLogic 2022-03-08 | 0 comments

40.

How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by yarapavan 2021-11-24 | 0 comments

41.

Robot dog just taught itself to walk (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by danijar 2022-07-18 | 0 comments

42.

The xenotransplant patient who died received a heart infected with a pig virus (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by gmays 2022-05-06 | 0 comments

43.

Eric Topol used his social-media account to kill off Trump’s October surprise (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by finite_jest 2021-12-26 | 0 comments

44.

A quick guide to the most important AI law you’ve never heard of (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by webmaven 2022-05-13 | 1 comments

45.

Anti-aging drugs are being tested as a way to treat Covid (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by pseudolus 2022-05-18 | 0 comments

46.

AI’s progress isn’t the same as creating human intelligence in machines (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by RafelMri 2022-07-23 | 0 comments

47.

10 Breakthrough Technologies in 2022 (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by bpierre 2022-03-01 | 0 comments

48.

Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by malshe 2021-08-23 | 0 comments

49.

One scientist concluded Covid began with a spillover at Wuhan's wet market (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by ofou 2021-11-20 | 0 comments

50.

Lab-grown hair cells to treat baldness could be on the way (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by elorant 2022-01-19 | 0 comments

51.

Russia is risking the creation of a “splinternet”–and it could be irreversible (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by 22222 2022-03-17 | 0 comments

52.

The propaganda war has eclipsed cyberwar (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by caaqil 2022-03-03 | 0 comments

53.

The Afghan Biometric Databases Abandoned to the Taliban (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by jbegley 2021-08-30 | 0 comments

54.

The metaverse has a groping problem already (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by mgh2 2021-12-19 | 0 comments

55.

AI could predict 10 years of scientific priorities–if we let it (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by AniketP1 2021-09-21 | 0 comments

56.

One doctor’s campaign to stop a vaccine being rushed through before Election Day (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by ggreer 2021-12-22 | 0 comments

57.

The propaganda war has eclipsed cyberwar in Ukraine (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by guerrilla 2022-03-06 | 0 comments

58.

DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by gmays 2021-12-10 | 0 comments

59.

The metaverse has a groping problem (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by ta988 2021-12-18 | 4 comments

60.

Activists are targeting Russians with open-source “protestware” (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by doener 2022-03-24 | 0 comments

61.

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2022 (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by mrintellectual 2022-03-17 | 1 comments

62.

NASA is going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid. Things might get chaotic (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by lnyan 2021-09-10 | 1 comments

63.

I taught myself to lucid dream. You can too. (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by emptybits 2021-08-25 | 0 comments

64.

How to avoid sharing bad information about Russia's invasion of Ukraine (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by 22222 2022-02-25 | 0 comments

65.

China built a one-of-a-kind cyber-espionage behemoth to last (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by vaghetti 2022-03-02 | 0 comments

66.

The metaverse is the next venue for body dysmorphia online (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by pseudolus 2021-11-17 | 0 comments

67.

Mathematicians are deploying algorithms to stop gerrymandering (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by lnyan 2021-08-14 | 0 comments

68.

The US military wants to understand the most important software on earth (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by zhengiszen 2022-07-19 | 0 comments

69.

A new way to make quadratic equations easy (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by jbredeche 2021-11-25 | 0 comments

70.

Be more concerned about deliberate internet shutdowns (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by lnyan 2021-09-10 | 0 comments

71.

Mathematicians are deploying algorithms to stop gerrymandering (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by furcyd 2021-08-12 | 0 comments

72.

The rare spots of good news on climate change (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by mmettler 2022-01-02 | 0 comments

73.

DeepMind has predicted the structure of almost every protein known to science (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by jonbaer 2022-07-29 | 1 comments

74.

NSO was about to sell hacking tools to France. Now it’s in crisis (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by hassanahmad 2021-11-23 | 2 comments

75.

Meet the scientist at the center of the Covid lab leak controversy (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by throwaway4good 2022-02-14 | 0 comments

76.

DeepMind’s AI predicts almost when and where it’s going to rain (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by loftyal 2021-09-30 | 0 comments

77.

Omicron Data – another month away (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by News-Dog 2021-12-05 | 1 comments

78.

Why China is still obsessed with disinfecting everything (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by cwwc 2022-05-20 | 1 comments

79.

Russia is risking the creation of a “splinternet”–and it could be irreversible (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by elorant 2022-03-22 | 0 comments

80.

“I Was There When Facebook Put Profits over Safety” (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by gigama 2021-11-12 | 2 comments

81.

Company wants to use carbon dioxide to store renewable power on the grid (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by SiempreViernes 2022-05-11 | 0 comments

82.

How to save social media by treating it like a city (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by marban 2021-12-21 | 0 comments

83.

The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by jamesdco 2022-07-25 | 0 comments

84.

Meta has built a new language AI–and it’s giving it away for free (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by echen 2022-06-22 | 2 comments

85.

The metaverse has a groping problem already (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by marcodiego 2021-12-26 | 0 comments

86.

Yann LeCun’s big bet for building intelligent machines (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by OrderOfChaos 2022-06-25 | 0 comments

87.

MIT Tech Review reviews unnamed easy-to-use deepfake site (www.technologyreview.com)

3 points by etiam 2021-09-13 | 0 comments

88.

Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by colinprince 2022-04-22 | 0 comments

89.

The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by p4bl0 2022-07-24 | 2 comments

90.

A new generation of AI-powered robots is taking over warehouses (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by lnyan 2021-08-07 | 0 comments

91.

Who Is Starlink For? (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by teleforce 2021-09-07 | 2 comments

92.

The NSA spies shaping the future (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by curmudgeon22 2022-02-04 | 1 comments

93.

Company delivers packages faster than Amazon, but workers pay the price (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by conanxin 2022-06-21 | 0 comments

94.

Why software is so bad (2002) (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by kovac 2021-11-04 | 0 comments

95.

Quantum computing has a hype problem (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by RafelMri 2022-03-31 | 0 comments

96.

How AI is reinventing what computers are (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by rbanffy 2022-07-23 | 0 comments

97.

Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by mechatron 2021-09-15 | 0 comments

98.

AI Could Predict 10 Years of Scientific Priorities–If We Let It (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by infodocket 2021-09-20 | 0 comments

99.

An Afghan coding bootcamp becomes a lifeline under Taliban rule (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by kirso 2022-01-05 | 0 comments

100.

The Metaverse (Already) Has a Groping Problem (www.technologyreview.com)

2 points by cbtacy 2021-12-16 | 1 comments

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