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
26 min
52
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
26 min
53
Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s mo...
34 min
54
How gamification took over the world
16 min
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Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead rel...
27 min
56
Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “su...
35 min
57
What is AI?
79 min
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The cost of building the perfect wave
27 min
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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
61
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
63
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
65
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
66
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
67
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
68
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
69
In Machines We Trust: That's a wrap!
Farewell to In Machines We Trust
26 min
70
In Machines We Trust: When AI hears a problem
An deep dive into vocal biomarkers from MIT Technology Review
32 min
71
In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future wit...
Part two of a miniseries
20 min
72
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
74
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI re...
An oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast
13 min
75
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