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MIT Technology Review Narrated

MIT Technology Review

Welcome to MIT Technology Review Narrated, the home for the very best of our journalism in audio. Each week we will share one of our most ambitious stories, from print and online, narrated for us by real voice actors. Expect big themes, thought-provoking topics, and sharp analysis, all backed by our trusted reporting.

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23:46

Meet the radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine’s...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/12/18

Despite it being over 100 years old, radio technology is still critical in almost all aspects of modern warfare—including in the drones that have come to dominate the Russia-Ukraine war. But before the war, there was a frightening vacuum of expertise. Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, who has been obsessed with radios since childhood, stepped in to fill it. Now, the unlikely hero is sharing expert advice and intel on the ever-evolving technology that’s taken over the skies. His work may determine the

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27:54

ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/12/11

You can practically hear the shrieks from corner offices around the world: “What is our ChatGPT play? How do we make money off this?”Whether it’s based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, an AI gold rush has started to mine the anticipated business opportunities from generative AI models like ChatGPT. But while companies and executives see a clear chance to cash in, the likely impact of the technology on workers and the economy on the whole is far less obvious. This story was written by editor at

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30:43

Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/12/04

In the future, CRISPR will get easier and easier to administer, potentially opening up paths for tinkering with human evolution. What will that mean for our species?This story was written by senior biomedicine editor Antonio Regalado and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com

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41:45

The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/11/27

Did you know that NASA intends to destroy the International Space Station by around 2030? Once it's gone, private companies will likely swoop in with their own replacements. Get ready for the great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit.This story was written by David W. Brown and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com

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26:02

The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/11/21

Pump jacks and pipelines clutter the Elk Hills oil field of California, a scrubby stretch of land in the southern Central Valley that rests above one of the nation’s richest deposits of fossil fuels. Oil production has been steadily declining in the state for decades, as tech jobs have boomed and legislators have enacted rigorous environmental and climate rules. Companies, towns, and residents across Kern County, where the poverty rate hovers around 18%, have grown increasingly desperate for new

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26:17

Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/11/13

Robots that can do many of the things humans do in the home—folding laundry, cooking meals, cleaning—have been a dream of robotics research since the inception of the field in the 1950s. While engineers have made great progress in getting robots to work in tightly controlled environments like labs and factories, the home has proved difficult to design for. Out in the real, messy world, furniture and floor plans differ wildly; children and pets can jump in a robot’s way; and clothes that need

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34:29

Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/11/06

In an attempt to protect its forests and famous wildlife, Virunga has become the first national park to run a Bitcoin mine. But some are wondering what crypto has to do with conservation. This story was written by Adam Popescu and narrated by Noa (newsoveraudio.com)

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16:19

How gamification took over the world

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/10/30

We live in an undeniably gamified world. We stand up and move around to close colorful rings and earn achievement badges on our smartwatches; we meditate and sleep to recharge our body batteries; we plant virtual trees to be more productive; we chase “likes” and “karma” on social media sites and try to swipe our way toward social connection.But instead of liberating us from drudgery and maximizing our potential, gamification has turned out to be just another tool for coercion, distraction, and

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27:22

Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/10/23

Digital clones of people's dead relatives are far from perfect: they're occasionally impersonal and sometimes downright creepy. But if the technology might help us hang onto the people we love, is it so wrong to try? This story was written by news editor Charlotte Jee and narrated by Noa.

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35:35

Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “super...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/10/16

A Silicon Valley startup wants to supercharge trees to soak up more carbon and cool the climate. Is this the great climate solution or a whole lot of hype? This story was written by Boyce Upholt and narrated by Noa.

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79:04

What is AI?

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/10/09

Artificial intelligence is the hottest technology of our time. But what is it? It sounds like a stupid question, but it’s one that’s never been more urgent. MIT Technology Review takes a deep dive into the competing answers from titans of industry and helps us understand how we got here—and why you should care, no matter who you are. This story was written by senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and narrated by Noa.

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27:27

The cost of building the perfect wave

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/10/02

The growing business of surf pools wants to bring the ocean experience inland, making surfing more accessible to communities far from the coasts.These pools can use—and lose—millions upon millions of gallons of water every year. With many planned for areas facing water scarcity, who bears the cost of building the perfect wave? This story was written by senior features and investigations reporter Eileen Guo and narrated by Noa.

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28:47

How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/09/25

Open-world video games are inhabited by vast crowds of computer-controlled characters. These animated people—called NPCs, for “nonplayer characters”—populate the bars, city streets, or space ports of games. They make virtual worlds feel lived in and full. Often—but not always—you can talk to them. After a while, however, the repetitive chitchat (or threats) of a passing stranger forces you to bump up against the truth: This is just a game. It may not always be like that. Just as it’s upending

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21:55

The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/09/18

At any given time, the US organ transplant waiting list is about 100,000 people long. Martine Rothblatt sees a day when an unlimited supply of transplantable organs—and 3D-printed ones—will be readily available, saving countless lives. This story was written by senior biomedicine editor Antonio Regalado and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com

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28:45

Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/09/11

Design thinking suggests that we are all creatives, and we can solve any problem if we empathize hard enough. The methodology was supposed to democratize design, but it may have done the opposite. Where did it go wrong? This story was written by Rebecca Ackermann and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com

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25:00

How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/09/04

Tokelau is a group of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand (of which it’s an official territory) and Hawaii. Its population hovers around 1,400 people. Reaching it requires a boat ride from Samoa that can take over 24 hours. To say that Tokelau is remote is an understatement: it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone… in 1997.Despite its size, Tokelau has become an internet giant. Until recently, its .tk domain had more users than any

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28:00

An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/08/28

An AI startup created a hyperrealistic deepfake of MIT Technology Review’s senior AI reporter that was so believable, even she thought it was really her at first. This technology is impressive, to be sure. But it raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real and what's fake.This story was written by senior AI reporter Melissa Heikkilä and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com

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13:32

It’s time to retire the term “user”

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/08/21

Though “user” seems to describe a relationship that is deeply transactional, many of the technological relationships in which a person would be considered a user are actually quite personal. That being the case, is the term “user” still relevant? This story was written by Taylor Majewski and narrated by Noa.

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26:30

The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/08/14

We've known of Europa’s existence for more than four centuries, but for most of that time, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon was just a pinprick of light in our telescopes— a bright and curious companion to the solar system’s resident giant. Over the last few decades, however, as astronomers have scrutinized it through telescopes and six spacecraft have flown nearby, a new picture has come into focus. Europa is nothing like our moon.Observations suggest that its heart is a ball of metal and rock,

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16:14

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But...

MIT Technology Review Narrated ·

2024/08/07

Despite all their runaway success, nobody knows exactly how—or why—large language models work. And that’s a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.This story was written by senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and narrated by Noa ((News Over Audio), an app offering you professionally-read articles from the world’s best publications.

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