This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's happening in technology.
Introducing the Engineering Issue
We can't fix everything, but we can be ambitious. By harnessing human ingenuity, we can tackle the challenge of making the world a better place. That's the focus of the new Engineering issue of MIT Technology Review.
Some of the challenges we face are massive in scale, like tunneling beneath the seafloor. Others exist at the nanoscale, such as a new ASML machine that is powering the future of chipmaking. And still others involve planetary-scale problems in uncharted territory, like replicating a volcano's mechanism to hack the atmosphere—a geoengineering reality check.
Plus, in a major shift for global computing power, China has claimed the US's title for the world's fastest supercomputer, marking a milestone in the race for technological dominance in 2026.