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Last week, news of CRISPR-engineered babies launched a firestorm of debate on the future of human reproduction: Is it safe? Is it ethical? Do...
How DeepMind’s AlphaZero Mastered Complex Games With No Human Input
It’s the end of an era in AI research. For decades complex board games like Go, chess, and shogi have been seen as the...
Are We Made of Memories? A Researcher’s Quest to Record His Life
How well do you remember what happened last week? Two weeks ago? Five weeks from last Tuesday? Unless you are meticulous in recording the...
Switching to Electric Vehicles Could Save the US Billions, But Timing Is Everything
Today, less than two percent of the vehicles Americans buy are electric. But within the next three decades, some automotive industry experts expect electric...
Will Tech Make Insurance Obsolete in the Future?
We profit from it, we fear it, and we find it impossibly hard to quantify: risk.
While not the sexiest of industries, insurance can be...
How the Most Successful Leaders Will Thrive in an Exponential World
We live in challenging times. Geopolitical turmoil, local and national social unrest, cycles of deadly natural disasters, cyber hacks, rising distrust of media and...
A Smartphone App and 3D Printed Attachment for HIV Detection
There are more than 1.1 million people in the US living with HIV, and 1 in 7 of them don’t even know they have...
The Promise—and Complications—of Domestic Robots
Every year, for just a few days in a major city, a small team of roboticists get to live the dream: ordering around their...
Research in Zero Gravity: 6 Wild Projects on the International Space Station
It’s been 20 years since the first components of the International Space Station (ISS) were launched from Earth. Orbiting the planet every 90 minutes...
CRISPR Babies: Stumbling Over Mankind’s Next Giant Leap
During the last weekend in November, MIT Tech Review broke a world-changing story: the birth of the first children to have undergone gene editing...
Welcome to the CRISPR Baby World—Here’s What You Should Know
Last week, the gene editing world was hit by news the equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
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