Virtual Influencers Are on the Rise. How Far Will Their Influence Go?
In early April 2019, something was suddenly very different about Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Instagram account. In lieu of retro-style pictures of chicken, a decidedly...
How the US Will Get to a 50 Percent Renewable Electric Economy by 2030
By 2030, more than 50 percent of the US economy will run on electricity derived from renewables. What are the implications as we shift the...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 6)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Machine Learning Has Been Used to Automatically Translate Long-Lost Languages
Emerging Technology from the arXiv | MIT Technology Review
"Some languages that have never been...
Facebook Claims Libra Offers Economic Empowerment to Billions—an Economist Is Skeptical
Facebook is joining the cryptocurrency craze. Should we be concerned?
The social network site on June 18 said it’s launching a new cryptocurrency called Libra...
Scientists Can Now Clone Brain Organoids. Here’s Why That Matters
An army of free-floating minibrain clones are heading your way!
No, that’s not the premise of a classic sci-fi brain-in-jars blockbuster. Rather, a team at...
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...
Could Lab-Grown Brains Develop Consciousness?
There’s a very un-sexy view of consciousness: our rich, meaningful inner experience of self and other is nothing but electrical and chemical chattering inside...
This Radical New DNA Microscope Reimagines the Cellular World
It’s not every day that something from the 17th century gets radically reinvented.
But this month, a team from the Broad Institute at MIT and...
The LightSail-2 Mission Launched Last Week. It Could Shape the Future of Solar Spaceflight
Just like the early explorers harnessed the wind to sail around the world, scientists have long dreamed of using light to sail through the...
Can AI Save the Internet from Fake News?
There’s an old proverb that says “seeing is believing.” But in the age of artificial intelligence, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to take anything at...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 29)
MINIATURIZATION
Self-Assembling Microrobots Can Be Programmed to Form a Tiny Steerable Car
Luke Dormehl | Digital Trends
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