Every year, we pick the 10 technologies that matter the most right now. We look for advances that will have a big impact on our lives and break down why they matter.

Make Sunsets is already attempting to earn revenue for geoengineering, a move likely to provoke widespread criticism.

An MIT Technology Review investigation recently revealed how images of a minor and a tester on the toilet ended up on social media. iRobot said it had consent to collect this kind of data from inside homes—but participants say otherwise.

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.