MIT Technology Review

http://www.technologyreview.com/

• Global Edition
• About
• News & Analysis
• Magazine
• Lists
• Events
• More

• Connect

Login / Join

MIT Technology Review

Home News & Analysis

• Features
• Views
• Multimedia
• Discussions
• Topics

• Popular:
• QUANTUM BATTERIES
• APPLE'S R&D SPENDING
• TABLET TEACHING
• EDUCATION CRISIS
• VOTING ONLINE

• Home
• Menu
• Connect
• Login / Join
• Popular
• New

News

How to Steal Data from Your Neighbor in the Cloud

Tom Simonite

• The Pressure’s on for Intel

  Mike Orcutt

• Ivy League 2.0 or Just Another Pets.com?

  Lee Gomes

• Quantum Dots Make Artificial Photosynthesis Last Longer

  Kevin Bullis

• Microsoft Brings Star Trek’s Voice Translator to Life

  Tom Simonite

• 

  Moore’s Law Is Becoming Irrelevant

  Tom Simonite

• 

  How Improved Batteries Will Make Electric Vehicles Competitive

  Kevin Bullis

  48
• 

  Organ-on-a-Chip Mimics Deadly Lung Condition

  Susan Young

• VIEW

  Twitter Hoaxes

• VIEW

  Microgrids

• VIEW

  Climate Change: What Now?

• VIEW

  Wikimedia Predictions

• NEWS

  Smarter Batteries

Our premier conference, focused on the impact of emerging technologies.

October 24-26, 2012

• Program a Revolutionary Robot to Do Your Bidding
• Alta Devices Plans a Fast-Charging Solar iPad Cover

• Some Wisdom from Joi Ito
• Reebok and MC10 will Launch an Impact-Sensing Skullcap for Sports

Watch online Complete coverage »

• Recent
• Popular
• Views

Topics

• Biomedicine
• Business
• Communications
• Computing
• Energy
• Web

• 

  The Physics arXiv Blog

  View

  12 hours ago

  Other Interesting arXiv Papers This Week

• 

  Martin LaMonica

  View

  1 day ago

  Kior ‘Biocrude’ Plant a Step toward Advanced Biofuels

  8 comments
• 

  David Zax

  View

  1 day ago

  Making Office Mobile

  1 comment
• 

  David Talbot

  View

  1 day ago

  Bandwidth and Botnets: Communications Policy Challenges for Obama

  1 comment
• 

  David Zax

  View

  1 day ago

  An Xbox Gaming Tablet?

• 

  The Physics arXiv Blog

  View

  2 days ago

  Entanglement Makes Quantum Batteries Almost Perfect, Say Theorists

  3 comments

View more stories

Editors' Picks

• 

  EmTech

  MIT Technology Review's annual EmTech is the premier conference focused on emerging technologies and their impact.
  October 24-26, 2012
  Watch now »
  

• Photo Gallery

  Building Tesla

• From the Archives

  Library of Utopia

• Watch the Webcasts

  EmTech MIT 2012 Annual Conference

• Featured Story

  The Dementia Plague

• Featured Story

  The Deferred Dreams of Mars

Topics See all »

• Communications

  • 

    Why You Can’t Vote Online

    56 comments

  • Efficiency Breakthrough Promises Smartphones that Use Half the Power

    18 comments

  • E-Ink, Largely Limited to E-Readers, Appears in a Chinese Smartphone

    11 comments
  See more »

• Business

  • Ivy League 2.0 or Just Another Pets.com?

  • Q&A with Salman Khan

  • Can Apple Still Innovate on a Shoestring?

    17 comments
  See more »

• Computing

  • The Pressure’s on for Intel

  • Moore’s Law Is Becoming Irrelevant

  • How to Steal Data from Your Neighbor in the Cloud

  See more »

• Biomedicine

  • 

    Organ-on-a-Chip Mimics Deadly Lung Condition

  • Flipping on the Lights to Halt Seizures

  • Breakthrough Offers a Better Way to Make Drugs

  See more »

• Web

  • 

    Bouncing Camera Gets into Dangerous Places So People Don’t Have To

  • How Facebook's Plans Could Affect the Election

  • A Rewired Internet Would Speed Up Content Delivery

  See more »

• Energy

  • 

    How Improved Batteries Will Make Electric Vehicles Competitive

    48 comments

  • Quantum Dots Make Artificial Photosynthesis Last Longer

  • A Startup's Smart Batteries Reduce Buildings' Electric Bills

    13 comments
  See more »

Most:

• Recent
• Popular

Get Updates

• Newsletter Signup

Also on Twitter, Facebook, RSS, and More »

• All Recent Views
• Latest from:
  • The Physics arXiv Blog
  • Martin LaMonica
  • David Zax
  • David Talbot
  • Rachel Metz 1 week ago

• The Physics arXiv Blog

  View

  Other Interesting arXiv Papers This Week

• Martin LaMonica

  View

  Kior ‘Biocrude’ Plant a Step toward Advanced Biofuels

• David Zax

  View

  Making Office Mobile

• David Talbot

  View

  Bandwidth and Botnets: Communications Policy Challenges for Obama

From the Archives See all »

1. 2012
2. 2011
3. 2010
4. 2000s
5. 1990s
6. 1980s
7. 1970s
8. 1960s
9. 1950s
10. 1940s
11. 1930s
12. 1920s
13. 1910s
14. 1900s
15. 1899

November 1929

Putting Death Out to Pasture

One writer wondered if cows' milk was the key to human longevity.

January 1969

October 1985

January 2005

January 1949

• 7 years ago

  Synopsis: Information Technology

• 2 years ago

  From the Labs: Information Technology

• 2 years ago

  A Less Personal Computer

• 3 years ago

  The Nature of Intelligence

• 3 years ago

  From the Labs: Biomedicine

See more »

News and Analysis

• Home
• Popular
• Today's News
• Blogs
• Photo Galleries
• Videos

Back to Top

MIT Technology Review identifies important new technologies — deciphering their practical impact and revealing how they will change our lives.

• Editions

  Find your preferred version. Choose from six languages and in 13 regions worldwide.
  

• Archives

  Explore 113 years of innovation from the most respected technology publication.
  

• Lists

  Discover the most important people, companies and technologies shaping our future.
  

• Events

  Attend one of our over 400 thought-provoking live events worldwide.
  

• Subscribers

  Have MIT Technology Review delivered to your doorstep, desktop, or tablet.
  

• More

• Newsletters
• MIT Enterprise Forum
• MIT News Magazine
• EmTech

• Company

• About Us
• Work for Us
• Advertise with Us
• Reprints and Permissions

• Your Account

• Join
• View Profile
• Manage Account
• Manage Subscription

• Customer Support

• Help / Support
• Contact us
• Feedback
• Sitemap

Connect

• Twitter
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• StumbleUpon
• RSS
• Mobile

MIT Technology Review

• Ethics Statement
• Terms of Service
• Privacy

• © 2012
• v1.12.10.24