21 of Emerging Tech Brew’s most-read stories from 2021
Our top stories of the year.

Dianna "Mick" McDougall
• less than 3 min read
In no particular order, here are 21 of the stories you all seemed to really enjoy across the year. They span everything from woolly-mammoth revival to large language models, and whether you missed them the first time around or want to read again, we hope something from the below list resonates with you today.
- Your Guide to Autonomous Vehicles
- Nine experts on the single biggest obstacle facing AI in the next five years
- What we get wrong about machines taking our jobs
- Your Guide to the Cloud
- The US wants to get better at manufacturing chips. That’s no easy task.
- How a smartphone chip powered NASA’s historic flight on Mars
- Amex’s fraud detection AI was ready to go live. Then Covid hit.
- We spent two days riding Waymo’s driverless taxis and it felt surprisingly normal
- How Airbnb failed its own anti-discrimination team—and let racial disparities slip through the cracks
- Your Guide to Robotics
- Weed farmers are using drones as crop cops
- Roblox’s metaverse is already here, and it’s wildly popular
- A Q&A with Tony Yen, VP of tech development at ASML
- CarbonCapture is one step closer to pulling CO2 from the atmosphere
- Tech is improving at an exponential rate. Here’s what that means for society.
- In a patch of Arizona, everyone knows Waymo. But few use it.
- A lithium shortage is coming, and automakers might be unprepared
- A biotech startup has raised millions to resurrect woolly mammoths
- This powerful AI technique led to clashes at Google and fierce debate in tech. Here’s why.
- Mixed reality could transform the travel industry in unexpected ways. Here’s how.
- 5 charts explaining the future of EV batteries
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