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The usability imperative for securing digital asset devices

MIT Technology Review Insights • March 9, 2026 When Tony Fadell started working on the iPod, usability often trumped security. The result was an iterative process. Every time someone would find a security weakness or a way to hack the device, the development group would iterate to add measures and fix the issues. Yet, flaws

How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater

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James O’Donnell • March 9, 2026 This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. “Anyone wanna host a get together in SF and pull this up on a 100 inch TV?” The author of that post on X was referring

The Download: AI’s role in the Iran war, and an escalating legal fight

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Thomas Macaulay • March 10, 2026 This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater Much of the spotlight on AI in the Iran conflict has focused on models like Claude helping

The Download: Pokémon Go to train world models, and the US-China race to find aliens

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Thomas Macaulay • March 11, 2026 This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world Pokémon Go was the world’s first augmented-reality megahit. Released in 2016 by

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

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Will Douglas Heaven • March 10, 2026 Pokémon Go was the world’s first augmented-reality megahit. Released in 2016 by the Google spinout Niantic, the AR twist on the juggernaut Pokémon franchise fast became a global phenomenon. From Chicago to Oslo to Enoshima, players hit the streets in the urgent hope of catching a Jigglypuff or

Prioritizing energy intelligence for sustainable growth

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MIT Technology Review Insights • March 10, 2026 Loudoun County, Virginia, once known for its pastoral scenery and proximity to Washington, DC, has earned a more modern reputation in recent years: The area has the highest concentration of data centers on the planet. Ten years ago, these facilities powered email and e-commerce. Today, thanks to

Hustlers are cashing in on China’s OpenClaw AI craze

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Caiwei Chen • March 11, 2026 Feng Qingyang had always hoped to launch his own company, but he never thought this would be how—or that the day would come this fast. Feng, a 27-year-old software engineer based in Beijing, started tinkering with OpenClaw, a popular new open-source AI tool that can take over a device

Brutal times for the US battery industry

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Casey Crownhart • March 12, 2026 Just a few years ago, the battery industry was hot, hot, hot. There was a seemingly infinite number of companies popping up, with shiny new chemistries and massive fundraising rounds. My biggest problem was sifting through the pile to pick the most exciting news to cover. That tide has

Reentry of NASA satellite will exceed the agency’s own risk guidelines

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Stephen Clark • March 10, 2026 A NASA satellite that spent more than a decade coursing through the Van Allen radiation belts encircling Earth is about to fall back into the atmosphere. Most of the spacecraft will burn up during reentry, but a fraction of the material making up the 1,323-pound (600-kilogram) satellite will likely

Quantum computing meets the Möbius molecule

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John Timmer • March 11, 2026 Last week, IBM trumpeted its contributions to a rather unusual paper: the production of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology, assisted by an algorithm run in part on a quantum computer. There was, to put it mildly, a lot going on in this paper, and it took a little