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Monthly Archives: August, 2018

Would You Eat ‘Meat’ from a Lab? Consumers Aren’t Necessarily Sold on ‘Cultured Meat’

Andrew Maynard -
It’s been a busy summer for food-based biotech. The US Food and Drug Administration made headlines when it approved the plant-based “Impossible Burger,” which...

It’s Time to Make Social Media More Responsible

Leigh Manson -
The average person spends about two hours a day on social media platforms. If that sounds like a lot, it’s nothing compared to the...

The Most Valuable Tool for Ending Poverty? Data.

Vanessa Bates Ramirez -
The data revolution is under way, and data has impacted how we buy, work, live—even how we love. But there’s one field that remains...

China Is Quickly Becoming an AI Superpower

Peter H. Diamandis, MD -
Last year, China’s government put out its plan to lead the world in AI by 2030. As Eric Schmidt has explained, “It’s pretty simple. By...

For a Bright Future of Work, Focus on Purpose

Leigh Manson -
Can you think of more than one industry whose workers aren’t worried about losing their jobs to robots or computers? Automation seems to be...

New Study Is the Most Successful Attempt to Gene Edit Human Embryos So Far

Shelly Fan -
In the quest for CRISPR supremacy, China just won another first. Last week, a team used CRISPR-Cas9 to correct a single mistaken DNA letter...

How Cryptocurrencies Can Influence the Future of Freedom

Vanessa Bates Ramirez -
Bitcoin has steadily grown in popularity since its inception in 2009. We hear about how many people are getting rich quick from it, and...

Are Exoskeletons About to Go Mainstream?

Edd Gent -
Ever since the appearance of the power loader in the sci-fi classic Aliens, the idea that powered exoskeletons could let workers carry superhuman weights...

What Would It Take to Build a Tower as High as Outer Space?

Sean Sun -
The human desire to create ever bigger and more impressive structures is insatiable. The pyramids of Ancient Egypt, the Great Wall of China, and...

Tech Interfaces Need to Get Better. Extended Reality Can Help

Leigh Manson -
Throughout history, we have used tools—hammers, canes, paintbrushes—as natural extensions of our bodies. These tools seem to disappear into our hands. But today’s electronic...

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 25)

Singularity Hub Staff -
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE God Is in the Machine Carl Miller | The Times Literary Supplement "Algorithms have changed, from Really Simple to Ridiculously Complicated. They are capable of...

Five Reasons to Forget Mars for Now and Return to the Moon

Ian Whittaker -
Hopes of colonizing Mars rest on the premise that we could terraform the red planet, making it habitable for humans with a breathable atmosphere...

4 Startups Using AI to Solve 4 Totally Different Problems

Leigh Manson -
AI is one of the biggest buzzwords in tech (and in general) these days, and there’s no question AI gets a lot of hype,...

The Future of Cars Is Electric, Autonomous, and Shared—Here’s How We’ll Get There

Vanessa Bates Ramirez -
This week, Lyft announced they’d hit the milestone of their 5,000th self-driving commercial ride. The company has a fleet of autonomous cars in Las...

What’s Disrupting How We Produce Energy—and How We Use It

Leigh Manson -
“Where did solar energy get its start?” Ramez Naam asked in a presentation at Singularity University’s Global Summit. Naam, a computer scientist and award-winning...

Why the Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think

Vanessa Bates Ramirez -
People have no idea how fast the world is changing. So said Peter Diamandis to the audience at Singularity University’s Global Summit, taking place this...

Landmark FDA Approval Brings Powerful Gene Silencing Method to Market

Shelly Fan -
Earlier this month, the FDA approved an entirely new family of drugs, one so powerful that it could put CRISPR-based gene therapy to shame....

Singularity University’s Global Summit Kicks off Today in San Francisco

Singularity Hub Staff -
Singularity University’s (SU) third annual Global Summit begins today in San Francisco, running through Wednesday, August 22. The Singularity Hub team will be there...

Newly-Decoded Wheat Genome Opens the Door to Engineering Superfoods

Edd Gent -
Tweaking the DNA of crops to make them hardier and more productive is one of the most promising applications of gene-editing technology. That’s not...

If We Made Life in a Lab, Would We Understand It Differently?

Rebecca Wilbanks -
What is life? For much of the 20th century, this question did not particularly concern biologists. Life is a term for poets, not scientists,...

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 18)

Singularity Hub Staff -
FUTURE What the Year 2050 Has in Store for Humankind Yuval Noah Harari | Wired "Humankind is facing unprecedented revolutions, all our old stories are crumbling and...

Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent: The Rise of China’s Tech Giants

Peter H. Diamandis, MD -
Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent (BAT) are now valued at a combined $1 trillion USD. Alibaba and Tencent alone now account for almost one-third of the MSCI China...

Why Everything You Know About How Companies Learn Is About to Change

Lisa Kay Solomon -
Chris Pirie is the general manager of worldwide learning at Microsoft, focused on creating a digital, flexible, and scalable learning agenda that meets the...

China Is Building a Fleet of Autonomous AI-Powered Submarines. Here Are the Details

Marc Prosser -
A fleet of autonomous, AI-powered submarines is headed into hotly-contested Asian waterways. The vehicles will belong to the Chinese armed forces, and their mission...

Amazing New Brain Map of Every Synapse Points to the Roots of Thinking

Shelly Fan -
Imagine a map of every single star in an entire galaxy. A map so detailed that it lays out what each star looks like,...

AI Can Help Create a Better World—If We Build it Right

Ben Goertzel -
Society is rife with fears about the future of AI. For some, like Richard Branson and Ray Dalio, it’s AI’s exacerbation of the wealth...

A Student Took Down One of Quantum Computing’s Top Applications—Now What?

Edd Gent -
The possibility that quantum computing could turbocharge machine learning is one of the most tantalizing applications for the emerging technology. But an 18-year-old student...

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 11)

Singularity Hub Staff -
MIXED REALITY I Tried Magic Leap and Saw a Flawed Glimpse of Mixed Reality's Amazing Potential Adi Robertson | The Verge "Whether or not it’s cooler than...

Could Machine Learning Mean the End of Understanding in Science?

Amar Vutha -
Much to the chagrin of summer party planners, weather is a notoriously chaotic system. Small changes in precipitation, temperature, humidity, wind speed or direction,...

The Astounding Growth of Chinese VC—and the Tech It’s Flowing Into

Peter H. Diamandis, MD -
Over the course of the next month, I will be releasing a series of China-centered articles, leading up to my webinar with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, one...

Waste Heat: The Overlooked Energy Problem, and How to Solve It

Anastasiya Ernays-Eskarsa -
With the exponential increase in the number of data centers and electronic devices over the last decade, waste heat has become a big but...

CAR-T May Be a Silver Bullet Against Cancer—and Here’s What Else It Can Do

Shelly Fan -
CAR-T is the super-soldier serum of cell therapy: you pluck out an immune cell soldier, inject it with a dose of new genes, and...

Successfully Transplanted Lab-Grown Pig Lungs Take Us Closer to Custom Organs

Edd Gent -
Being able to grow new organs from a patient's own cells could revolutionize both the safety and availability of transplants. Scientists have now overcome...

Graphene and Beyond: The Astonishing Properties and Promise of 2D Materials

Thomas Hornigold -
Since graphene was first isolated in 2004, a Nobel Prize-winning feat that sparked a whole new exciting field of materials science research, 2D materials...

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 4)

Singularity Hub Staff -
TECHNOLOGY Apple Is Worth One Trillion Dollars Ian Bogost | The Atlantic "Tech magnates crow too often about 'changing the world,' but this is what it really...

Designing a ‘Solar Tarp,’ a Foldable, Packable Way to Generate Power From the Sun

Darren Lipomi -
The energy-generating potential of solar panels—and a key limitation on their use—is a result of what they’re made of. Panels made of silicon are...

In the Future, We’ll Know Everything—Thanks to This Tech

Peter H. Diamandis, MD -
We’re rapidly approaching the era of abundant knowledge—a time when you can know anything you want, anywhere you want, anytime you want. An era...

Are Maglev Trains the (Ultra-Fast, Levitating) Transit System of the Future?

Marc Prosser -
When you see the Japanese L0 Series maglev train at full speed, it can be hard to spot the potential (extremely costly) failure. Some...
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