MIT Technology Review Narrated
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Welcome to MIT Technology Review Narrated, the home for the very best of our journalism in audio.
- 10 minutes 46 secondsHow Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players. This story was written by Will Douglas Heaven and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com
25 March 2026, 4:00 am - 19 minutes 19 secondsHow uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade
Fast, stealthy, and cheap—autonomous, semisubmersible drone boats carrying tons of cocaine could be international law enforcement’s nightmare scenario. A big one just came ashore. This story was written by Eduardo Echeverri López and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com
18 March 2026, 4:00 am - 34 minutes 41 secondsAmerica was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.
The Mars Sample Return mission got off to a promising start, hunting for potentially humanity-changing space rocks. How did it fall off the rails?
This story was written by Robin George Andrews and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com
11 March 2026, 4:00 am - 30 minutes 42 secondsThe curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis
A new wave of theft is rocking the luxury car industry—mixing high tech with old-school chop-shop techniques to snag vehicles while they’re in transport.
This story was written by Craig Silverman and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com
4 March 2026, 4:00 am - 30 minutes 48 secondsHackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.
Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of the Com, a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target. This story was written by Kim Zetter and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com
25 February 2026, 4:00 am - 14 minutes 35 secondsStratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year
High-altitude platforms could help connect over 2 billion people around the world who are still offline.
This story was written by Tereza Pultarova and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com
18 February 2026, 4:00 am - 9 minutes 43 secondsHow next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint
From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology.
This story was written by Casey Crownhart and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com
11 February 2026, 12:12 pm - 10 minutes 16 secondsChina figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to deal with their aging batteries.
As early electric cars age out, hundreds of thousands of used batteries are flooding the market, fueling a gray recycling economy even as Beijing and big manufacturers scramble to build a more orderly system. This story was written by Caiwei Chen and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com
4 February 2026, 9:00 am - 15 minutes 16 secondsThis Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air
Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth. This story was written by Alexander C. Kaufman and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
28 January 2026, 4:00 am - 21 minutes 42 secondsMeet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time. This story was written by Will Douglas Heaven and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
21 January 2026, 4:00 am - 13 minutes 47 secondsWhat’s next for AI in 2026
Our AI writers make their big bets for the coming year—here are five hot trends to watch. This story was written by Rhiannon Williams, Will Douglas Heaven, Caiwei Chen, James O'Donnell, Michelle Kim and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.
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