From venue to screen Most significantly, the Olympic Winter Games increased its use of cloud technology to broadcast events globally. Traditionally, getting the Olympics onto people’s screens required expensive international telecommunication optical circuits, as well as sizeable news and broadcast crews who had to be flown into the host city. But the Olympic Broadcasting Services […]

To support MIT Technology Review’s journalism, please consider becoming a subscriber. OSN team activities  The activities of each of the OSN teams mentioned is unclear—the agencies involved in OSN responded to our request for clarification by saying  that “mutual aid” and “joint response” was commonplace, and that a collaborative response to trials for officers outside […]

—James Ball What do psychedelic drugs do to our brains? AI could help us find out The big picture: Psychedelic drugs have long been touted as possible treatments for mental-health disorders like depression and PTSD. But very little is really known about what these substances actually do to our brains. Understanding how they work could help […]

The moves have raised fears of a “splinternet” (or Balkanized internet), in which instead of the single global internet we have today, we instead have a number of national or regional networks that don’t speak to one another and perhaps even operate using incompatible technologies.  That would spell the end of the internet as a […]

Randomized clinical trials, which involve giving some participants a drug, others a placebo, and comparing the effects of both, are considered the gold standard in such studies.   But such trials are slow and expensive, and tend to involve only a small number of participants. “[It takes] multiple years, costs a seven-digit amount of money, [and] […]