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This Startup Is Training AI to Gobble Up the News and Rewrite It Free...
Bias in journalism is nothing new, but there are growing concerns technology is pushing us into echo chambers where we only hear one side...
Tiny Tooth Sensor Tracks What You Eat, and It Could Help You Be Healthier
The South Beach diet. The Atkins diet. Eating paleo. Cutting out gluten. Going vegan. The list of fad diets and health crazes goes on,...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 14)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI Learns a New Trick: Measuring Brain Cells
Robbie Gonzalez | Wired
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The Startup That Has to Kill You to Preserve Your Brain—Here’s...
Here’s something you don’t hear every day: for $10,000, an MIT-backed startup will preserve your brain right down to the synapse level. Within this...
How the Most Successful Leaders Will Thrive in an Exponential World
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Robot Cities: Three Urban Prototypes for Future Living
Before I started working on real-world robots, I wrote about their fictional and historical ancestors. This isn’t so far removed from what I do...
How Will Merging Minds and Machines Change Our Conscious Experience?
One of the most exciting and frightening outcomes of technological advancement is the potential to merge our minds with machines. If achieved, this would...
MIT’s New Voiceless Interface Can Read the Words in Your Head
The way we interact with the technology in our lives is getting progressively more seamless. If typing terms or addresses into your phone wasn’t...
This Memory Prosthesis Boosts Recall in Humans by Roughly 40 Percent
This one’s for the books: in a jaw-dropping study, a team just turned the human brain from a read-only memory device to a rewritable...
How Big Is the Gap Between ‘Ready Player One’ and Current VR Tech?
Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Ready Player One depicts a future where VR technology can transport people into a completely realistic alternate universe. But how close...
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