TIME logo
Connect Wallet
Wallet Settings
Disconnect Wallet
MetaMask
WalletConnect
Sign In
My Account
Manage Account
Digital Magazines
Subscriber Benefits
Help Center
Sign Out
SUBSCRIBE FOR 99¢
Subscribe
Spotlight Story
Photos of Pakistan's Flooding
Close
My Account
Manage Account
Digital Magazines
Subscriber Benefits
Help Center
Sign Out
Sign In
Sections
Home
U.S.
Politics
World
Health
Climate
Personal Finance by NextAdvisor
Future of Work by Charter
Business
Tech
Entertainment
Ideas
Science
History
Sports
Magazine
TIME 2030
TIME Studios
Video
TIME100 Talks
TIMEPieces
The TIME Vault
TIME for Health
TIME for Kids
TIME Edge
Red Border: Branded Content by TIME
Join Us
Newsletters
Subscribe
Subscriber Benefits
Give a Gift
Shop the TIME Store
Connect Wallet
Customer Care
US & Canada
Global Help Center
Reach Out
Careers
Press Room
Contact the Editors
Media Kit
Reprints and Permissions
More
Privacy Policy
Your California Privacy Rights
Terms of Use
Site Map
Connect with Us
Innovation
Elon Musk Enters In-Flight Wi-Fi Market With Small Satellites
By Todd Shields / Bloomberg
How Researchers Are Working to Make IVF More Effective
By Jamie Ducharme
Tackling Genetic Data's Racial Imbalance
By Vivienne Walt
DeepMind Shares Protein Structure Solution
By Billy Perrigo
More in
Innovation
The CHIPS Act Could Help Auto and Electronics Shoppers
It’s been a difficult year for shoppers looking for cars, electronics and anything that requires a computer chip. A global semiconductor shortage has left many companies unable to fill orders or even finish products they’ve...
By Nik Popli
July 27, 2022
The Metaverse Will Reshape Our Lives. Let's Make Sure It's for the Better
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reports that in the first six months of 2022, the word metaverse appeared in regulatory filings more than 1,100 times. The previous year saw 260 mentions. The preceding two...
By Matthew Ball
July 18, 2022
Why Copycat AI Tools Will Be the Internet’s Next Big Problem
Text-to-image tools have the potential to turbocharge harassment and spread misinformation
By Billy Perrigo
June 23, 2022
Nutrition Labels Help Us Make Better Food Choices. Climate Labels Could Do the Same for Sustainability
Our existence relies on the food we eat and clean water to drink. We often take these things for granted. Yet climate change poses a threat to these most precious assets, an impact frequently neglected...
By Irene Heemskerk
April 15, 2022
3D-Printed Homes Could Help Solve Affordable Housing Crisis
Videos of 3D-homebuilding are racking up tens of millions of views and helping people envision a world in which affordable 3D-printed houses are the new norm
By Megan McCluskey
April 4, 2022
Exclusive: Intel Reveals Plans for Massive New Ohio Factory, Fighting the Chip Shortage Stateside
As part of an effort to regain its position as a leading maker of semiconductors amidst a global chip shortage, Intel is committing $20 billion to build a manufacturing mega-site in New Albany, on the...
By Alana Semuels
January 20, 2022
AI Can Now Craft Jokes—But It's No Laughing Matter
Don’t you hate it,” says Jon the Robot, gesturing with tiny articulated arms at an expectant crowd, “when you’re trying to solve inverse kinematics equations to pick up a cup and then you get ‘Error...
By Corinne Purtill
January 4, 2022
These Are the Most Mispronounced Words of 2021
The list identifies the words that proved most challenging for newsreaders and people on television to pronounce this year
By William J. Kole/ AP
December 7, 2021
The Cow That Could Feed the Planet
The cows in Farmer John’s pasture lead an idyllic life. They roam through tree-shaded meadows, tearing up mouthfuls of clover while nursing their calves in tranquility. Tawny brown, compact and muscular, they are Limousins, a...
By Aryn Baker/Maastricht, Netherlands
November 2, 2021
Inside the Taiwan Firm That Makes the World’s Tech Run
On the northwest coast of Taiwan, nestled between mudflats teeming with fiddler crabs and sweet-scented persimmon orchards, sits the world’s most important company that you’ve probably never heard of. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., or TSMC,...
By Charlie Campbell
October 1, 2021
How London Became a Global Center for Fintech and What U.S. Tech Hubs Can Learn From It
When Silicon Valley veteran Eileen Burbidge moved to London in 2004, it was only meant to be temporary. With more than a decade of experience at tech stalwarts including Apple, Sun Microsystems and Verizon Wireless,...
By Gina Clarke
October 1, 2021
How AI Will Completely Change the Way We Live in the Next 20 Years
Artificial intelligence could be the most transformative technology in the history of mankind, writes Kai-Fu Lee
By Kai-Fu Lee
September 14, 2021
This Startup Has a Mission to Fight Student Debt
The startup Mos, founded by a Tunisian human rights activist, wants to teach college-bound students the financial skills they didn't learn in school
By Katie Reilly
September 1, 2021
MRNA's Next Chapter Has Nothing to Do With COVID Vaccines
It’s safe to say that before the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, most people hadn’t thought about messenger RNA, or mRNA, since high school science class—if ever. The molecule plays a pivotal...
By Jamie Ducharme
August 2, 2021
Psychiatry Is Still Stuck in Freud's Era. Big Data Can Revolutionize How We Care for Patients
I have a problem. I am a psychiatrist in the 21st century and yet I still evaluate patients the way Freud did a century ago: I sit with a patient and, by carefully observing how...
By Daniel Barron
July 9, 2021
America's Semiconductor Shortage Is Wreaking Havoc on Our Lives. Can We Fix It?
Semiconductors drive the world, but America is running short on them. Can the country catch up?
By Andrew Blum
June 28, 2021
10 Major Health Breakthroughs You Missed During COVID-19
From HIV treatment to dengue fever prevention, here are the major health breakthroughs you missed during the pandemic
By Jeffrey Kluger
June 10, 2021
How Artificial Intelligence May Be Planning Your Next Flight
Alaska Airlines has trained its human flight planners to work with new artificial intelligence designed to make flights more fuel efficient and safer
By Alana Semuels/Seattle
May 25, 2021
A Blind Patient Had Sight Restored in a Breakthrough Study
Reversing what was once irreversible
By Jeffrey Kluger
May 24, 2021
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Have Come to the U.S
They're intended as a population control tool, but some locals in the Florida Keys are furious over the project
By Alejandro de la Garza / Florida Keys, Fl.
May 9, 2021
We Need More Data in the Fight Against Cancer
For the first time in over a year, we are starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel from the devastation caused by COVID-19. While much work remains to end and avoid...
By Dr. David B. Agus, Dr. Elizabeth M. Jaffee, and Dr. Chi Van Dang
April 29, 2021
How Electric Cars Could Craft the Soundscape of the Future
What should you hear from an electric Vehicle? Automakers are working on answers--and composing the soundscape of the 21st century city
By Alejandro de la Garza
April 6, 2021
How We Can Solve the World's Biggest Problems This Decade
Societies will be forced to confront these crises, or be overwhelmed by them
By Justin Worland
January 22, 2021
8 Solutions for a More Equitable, Sustainable Future
Angelina Jolie, José Andrés, Christian Siriano and more on how to build a better world
By TIME Staff
January 22, 2021
Here's a Formula That Explains Where We Need to Invest in Climate Innovation
It's possible to provide affordable energy for everyone without causing a climate disaster
By Bill Gates
January 22, 2021
Cyber Citizenship Must Be a National Priority
"We need a sustained national effort if we are to prepare our citizens, both young and otherwise, for ‘life on-line’ in today’s socially engineered world."
By P.W. Singer and Michael McConnell
January 21, 2021
European Union Announces New Big Tech Regulations
Big tech companies could face multibillion dollar fines in Europe and the threat of being broken up unless they comply with sweeping new regulations announced by the European Commission on Tuesday. After years of wrangling...
By Billy Perrigo
December 15, 2020
The Chinese Company Revolutionizing How Goods Get Delivered
Could this be the first time that a Chinese firm truly writes global rules?
By Charlie Campbell / Hangzhou
November 23, 2020
'There's No Story That Stays Stable for Too Long.' How Artists Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Confront Modern Anxieties
'There's no story that stays stable for too long'
March 2, 2020
How TIME Re-created the 1963 March on Washington in Virtual Reality
Tucked away in an office on a quiet Los Angeles street, past hallways chockablock with miniature props and movie posters, is a cavernous motion-capture studio. And in that studio is the National Mall in Washington,...
By Patrick Lucas Austin
February 20, 2020
The Tech Team Behind Billy Porter's Incredible Opening and Closing Grammys Hat Told Us How it Works
What the performer's high-tech hat says about the future of fashion
By Patrick Lucas Austin
January 27, 2020
Why This Electric Car Racing League Matters Even If You Don't Care About Cars
Formula E is driving electric cars forward at a time when we need them most
By Alex Fitzpatrick
July 10, 2019
Everything You Need to Know About 5G
Wireless carriers around the world are beginning to deploy 5G, the latest and greatest in mobile broadband technology. Like the evolution from 3G to 4G, the jump to 5G will mean faster speeds, lower latency...
By Alex Fitzpatrick
May 23, 2019
The World Has an E-Waste Problem
As a tech-hungry nation flush with cash gets ready to upgrade to the next generation of lightning-fast 5G devices, there is a surprising environmental cost to be reckoned with: a fresh mountain of obsolete gadgets....
By Alana Semuels/Fresno, Calif.
May 23, 2019
6 Tech Leaders on What They Fear the Most
Techies pride themselves on their optimism. It couldn't be any other way. After all, Silicon Valley was built on the idea that technology is a force for good. In the nearly nine years I've spent...
By Laurie Segall
January 17, 2019
What If Museums Cost More for Rich People
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 22, 2018
Cities Need More Workers
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 21, 2018
Why the Dry-Cleaning Industry is Drying Up
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 20, 2018
Traffic Apps Might Be Making Traffic Worse
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 19, 2018
The Case for Conservative Universities
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 16, 2018
Is YouTube Bad For Us
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 15, 2018
Medical Schools Can Do Better for Aspiring Doctors with Disabilities
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 14, 2018
The Screen Time Debate is Pitting Parents Against Each Other
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 9, 2018
We Could Hack Mosquitoes to Prevent Dengue and Zika
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 7, 2018
The Best Use of Corporate Tax Cuts is Investing in Apprenticeship Programs
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 6, 2018
There May Be Five Types of Diabetes
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 5, 2018
Load More Articles
More from
TIME
More From TIME
