Mat Honan

Data barons at President Trump’s inauguration show the importance of relationships in the modern world. The latest issue of MIT Technology Review explores all kinds of partnerships.

It's true that powerful forces control what you can see on Facebook and Instagram. But it's not the media calling those shots. 

Driving into the future

Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge

Plus a chat about Anduril and how AI is poised to transform warfare, and a great new Tiny Desk concert.

Plus a chat about how the Ukraine war is reshaping tech in Eastern Europe, and a stocking stuffer recommendation.

Plus: The inside story on Clear

Welcome to The Debrief with Mat Honan, your weekly take on the tech news that really matters, links to stories we love, and the occasional recommendation.

Rather than analyzing the news this week, I thought I’d lift the hood a bit on how we make it. 

The latest issue of MIT Technology Review is all about food, and more to the point, how we can use technology—high tech and low tech—to feed more people.

Recent demos of smart glasses from Meta and Snap have shown off some impressive visuals. But the brains are the thing.

These new AR glasses are amazing. And extremely goofy.

With this issue, we want to celebrate our milestone as a publication without dwelling too much on our own past.

There are fortunes to be had in making the things we play more appealing, more accessible, more fun.

Whatever we build today will create our future. And if we’re not thoughtful about it, the forward steps we take now could be seen as steps back in the years to come.

MIT Technology Review sat down with outgoing CTO Martin van den Brink to talk about the company’s rise to dominance and the life and death of Moore’s Law.

Watch the ondemand video of the Roundtables session: The AI Economy. Available only to MIT Alumni and subscribers. Hosted by Mat Honan, Editor in chief and David Rotman, Editor at large. Learn more about how generative AI will impact the economy, the potential risks, and what the US is doing to invest in new hardware that underpins generative AI tools.

Some hidden worlds--whether in space, deep in the ocean, or in the form of waves or microbes--remain stubbornly unseen. Here’s how technology is being used to reveal them.

This magazine’s 125 years of history is fascinating—but only if we use it to help us understand where technology is headed next.

Millions of people have fled the “bird site” owned by Elon Musk and flocked to decentralized social media services instead.