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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In Machines We Trust: Optimizing for convenience
Retailers are rethinking the shopping experience.
14 min
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In Machines We Trust: When Your Face is Your Ti...
20 min
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In Machines We Trust: How pricing algorithms le...
Part-three of a series on automation and our wallets.
25 min
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In Machines We Trust: Want a job? The AI will s...
Part-two of an investigation into automated hiring practices.
29 min
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In Machines We Trust: Farming a war zone
Shortages of farm supplies in Ukraine might accelerate the adoption of precision technologies.
17 min
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In Machines We Trust: What’s next for space res...
Astronaut Michael López-Alegría on the path forward for research in low Earth orbit
23 min
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In Machines We Trust: Decoding a future of fire
Part two of our series on wildfires.
19 min
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In Machines We Trust: How AI watches wildfires
Part one a two-part series on wildfires.
17 min
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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
12 min
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In Machines We Trust: AI finds its voice
An encore edition from season two
27 min
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In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI m...
An oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast
10 min
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In Machines We Trust: Seeing double: AI births ...
Digital twins of humans capture the physical look and expressions of real humans.
18 min
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In Machines We Trust: Real-Time Farming (Audio ...
Introducing a miniseries about precision agriculture
10 min
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In Machines We Trust: How retail is using AI to...
Beating AI-powered fraud detection systems requires exceedingly boring behavior
16 min
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In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI he...
An oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast
9 min
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In Machines We Trust: How to craft effective AI...
A conversation about equity taped before a live audience.
20 min
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In Machines We Trust: Can AI keep guns out of s...
Amid a growing epidemic of gun violence, can AI be part of the solution?
18 min
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In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI be...
An oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast
12 min
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In Machines We Trust: Who watches AI watching s...
Welcome to season four!
21 min
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In Machines We Trust: When an algorithm gets it...
A look back at where we started.
19 min
46
Welcome to Curious Coincidence
A new investigative podcast from MIT Technology Review
3 min
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Welcome to The Extortion Economy
Part 1: The Problem
22 min
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In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder (E...
Machines are ranking the way people look—and the results are influencing the things we do, the posts we see, and the way we think.
21 min
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In Machines We Trust: What’s behind a smile (En...
An introduction to emotion AI.
23 min
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In Machines We Trust: Attention shoppers, you’r...
Revisiting our series on unexpected uses of facial recognition.
26 min