MIT Technology Review Narrated

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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1
Meet the radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukrain...
23 min
2
ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. ...
27 min
3
Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths f...
30 min
4
The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit
41 min
5
The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom
26 min
6
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
26 min
7
Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s mo...
34 min
8
How gamification took over the world
16 min
9
Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead rel...
27 min
10
Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “su...
35 min
11
What is AI?
79 min
12
The cost of building the perfect wave
27 min
13
How generative AI could reinvent what it means ...
28 min
14
The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlim...
21 min
15
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. ...
28 min
16
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global cap...
25 min
17
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of...
Synthesia's new technology is impressive but raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real.
28 min
18
It’s time to retire the term “user”
The proliferation of AI means we need a new word.
13 min
19
The search for extraterrestrial life is targeti...
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will travel to one of Jupiter's largest moons to look for evidence of conditions that could support life.
26 min
20
Large language models can do jaw-dropping thing...
Why figuring out how and why LLMs do what they do matters for the future.
16 min
21
How ASML took over the chipmaking chessboard
The CTO of the Dutch company explains how it become one of the most important businesses in the world.
18 min
22
Minds of machines: The great AI consciousness c...
Philosophers, cognitive scientists, and engineers are grappling with what it would take for AI to become conscious.
30 min
23
In Machines We Trust: That's a wrap!
Farewell to In Machines We Trust
26 min
24
In Machines We Trust: When AI hears a problem
An deep dive into vocal biomarkers from MIT Technology Review
32 min
25
In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future wit...
Part two of a miniseries
20 min