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 great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit
41 min
52
The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom
26 min
53
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
26 min
54
Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s mo...
34 min
55
How gamification took over the world
16 min
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Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead rel...
27 min
57
Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “su...
35 min
58
What is AI?
79 min
59
The cost of building the perfect wave
27 min
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How generative AI could reinvent what it means ...
28 min
61
The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlim...
21 min
62
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. ...
28 min
63
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global cap...
25 min
64
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
65
It’s time to retire the term “user”
The proliferation of AI means we need a new word.
13 min
66
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
67
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
68
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
69
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
70
In Machines We Trust: That's a wrap!
Farewell to In Machines We Trust
26 min
71
In Machines We Trust: When AI hears a problem
An deep dive into vocal biomarkers from MIT Technology Review
32 min
72
In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future wit...
Part two of a miniseries
20 min
73
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.
20 min
75
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI re...
An oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast
13 min