Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.
A gene therapy for an inherited immune disease completes a 27-year journey.
A special ring and a modified smart watch make human skin a touch interface for playing games and more.
Startup Viv says it has invented a smarter virtual assistant—but it could be smothered by the business clout of tech giants like Apple and Amazon.
Oculus’s VR headset can be thrilling, but will you buy it if some experiences make you sick and it’s hard to use for more than 20 minutes?
Why the program beloved as “ZapZap” matters so much in Brazil.
A surgical robot was able to repair pigs’ bowels more accurately than human doctors.
Millions more could be exposed to the virus by 2018, the earliest a vaccine will be ready.
Humans and machines both use neural networks for object and face recognition. Now evidence is emerging that both types of vision are flawed in the same way.
As cost overruns and delays plague the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, fusion startups are raising more capital.