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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The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom
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Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
26 min
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Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s mo...
34 min
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How gamification took over the world
16 min
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Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead rel...
27 min
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Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “su...
35 min
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What is AI?
79 min
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The cost of building the perfect wave
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How generative AI could reinvent what it means ...
28 min
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The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlim...
21 min
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Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. ...
28 min
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How a tiny Pacific Island became the global cap...
25 min
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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
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It’s time to retire the term “user”
The proliferation of AI means we need a new word.
13 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In Machines We Trust: That's a wrap!
Farewell to In Machines We Trust
26 min
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In Machines We Trust: When AI hears a problem
An deep dive into vocal biomarkers from MIT Technology Review
32 min
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In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future wit...
Part two of a miniseries
20 min
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In Machines We Trust: A conversation with Geoff...
A live taping from EmTech Digital, our signature AI event, in the MIT Media Lab
39 min
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In Machines We Trust: The Chip War (Live)
A conversation taped before a live audience.
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In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI re...
An oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast
13 min
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In Machines We Trust: When AI watches the streets
A look at how smart city tech is being used in ways we didn't predict.
26 min