Drugs, Robots, and the Pursuit of Pleasure: Why Experts Are Worried About AIs Becoming Addicts
In 1953, a Harvard psychologist thought he discovered pleasure—accidentally—within the cranium of a rat. With an electrode inserted into a specific area of its...
Walmart Is Launching an Autonomous Delivery Service in Three US Cities
Walmart has been America’s biggest retailer since the 1990s, its focus on low costs and ultra-efficient logistics helping it edge out competitors and keep...
Tele-Driving Startup to Deploy Remote-Controlled Cars as a Step Towards Full Autonomy
Self-driving cars are taking longer to hit roads than many experts predicted. Despite impressive progress in the field—like trucks using self-driving features to move...
The CRISPR Family Tree Holds a Multitude of Untapped Gene Editing Tools
Thanks to CRISPR, gene therapy and “designer babies” are now a reality. The gene editing Swiss army knife is one of the most impactful...
A New Mystery Human Species Has Been Discovered in Israel
An international group of archaeologists has discovered a missing piece in the story of human evolution.
Excavations at the Israeli site of Nesher Ramla have...
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Electrifying the Future: Toyota Puts Over $13 Billion Into Battery Technology
The world’s largest car manufacturer by volume has been sluggish in its efforts to electrify compared to competitors. But Toyota has just announced a...
New Study Finds a Single Neuron Is a Surprisingly Complex Little Computer
Comparing brains to computers is a long and dearly held analogy in both neuroscience and computer science.
It’s not hard to see why.
Our brains can...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 11)
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Meet Altos Labs, Silicon Valley's Latest Wild Bet on Living Forever
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review
"Altos is pursuing biological reprogramming technology, a way to...
AI Is Harder Than We Think: 4 Key Fallacies in AI...
Artificial intelligence has been all over headlines for nearly a decade, as systems have made quick progress in long-standing AI challenges like image recognition,...
New Research Reveals Animals Are Changing Their Body Shapes to Cope With Climate Change
Global warming is a big challenge for warm-blooded animals, which must maintain a constant internal body temperature. As anyone who’s experienced heatstroke can tell...
The World’s Largest Direct Air Capture Plant Is Now Pulling CO2 From the Air...
A little over four years ago, the world’s first commercial plant for sucking carbon dioxide out of the air opened near Zurich, Switzerland. The...
Hyundai Goes All-In on Hydrogen With Its ‘Trailer Drone’ and More
Between the grim outlook reported by the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report last month and frequent reports of extreme weather events all over the world,...
Gene Therapies Are Almost Here, But Healthcare Isn’t Ready for Sky-High Prices
Zolgensma—which treats spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease that damages nerve cells, leading to muscle decay—is currently the most expensive drug in the...
New Mini-CRISPR Systems Could Dramatically Expand the Scope of Gene Therapy
CRISPR has revolutionized genome engineering, but the size of its molecular gene-editing components has limited its therapeutic uses so far. Now, a trio of...
