The typical cultural image of a robot—as a steel, chrome, humanoid bucket of bolts—is often far from the reality of cutting-edge robotics research. There...
Electric cars have developed a reputation as the ultimate status symbol of the champagne environmentalist, but that could be very close to changing. New...
CRISPR may be the premiere gene editing prodigy poised to upend natural genomes and erase inherited diseases. But since its inception, one thing has...
Convergence is accelerating disruption… everywhere! Exponential technologies are colliding into each other, reinventing products, services, and industries.
As AI algorithms such as Siri and Alexa...
Life demands flux.
Every living organism is constantly changing: cells divide and die, proteins build and disintegrate, DNA breaks and heals. Life demands metabolism—the simultaneous...
Holograms are a staple in science fiction, but creating ones detailed enough to have serious applications in the real world has proved difficult. While...
Tesla and other electric cars are great for the environment. However, they pale in comparison to electric buses. According to a report from Bloomberg...
Technology is rapidly being demonetized and democratized, and that includes biotechnology. Almost anyone can now access and apply powerful biotech tools like genetic testing...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Open AI's Dota 2 AI Steamrolls World Champion e-Sports Team With Back-to-Back Victories
Nick Statt | The Verge
"... tells me there probably does not...
Floating inside a petri dish in a lab at Cambridge University, a single disjointed muscle twitched.
Normally that’s not news. But in this case, the...
Deep learning is powering some amazing new capabilities, but we find it hard to scrutinize the workings of these algorithms. Lack of interpretability in...
Hopes for the first ever privately-funded moon landing were dashed last Thursday after the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed on its final descent. But despite...
For the past quarter century, scientists battled Alzheimer’s disease under a single guiding principle: that protein clumps—beta-amyloid—deposited outside sensitive brain cells gradually damage neuronal...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Two Rival AI Approaches Combine to Let Machines Learn Like a Child
Will Knight | MIT Technology Review
"...the hybrid system addresses key limitations of...
During the past 50 years, the frequency of recorded natural disasters has surged nearly five-fold.
In this blog, I’ll be exploring how converging exponential technologies...
Dr. George Church, the legendary godfather of synthetic biology, just made another push towards massively editing life’s base code.
Since the inception of gene editing,...
Convergence is accelerating disruption. Exponential technologies are colliding into each other, reinventing products, services, and industries.
Over the course of my next five blogs, I’m going...
FUTURE OF FOOD
Behold the 'Beefless Impossible Whopper'
Nathaniel Popper | The New York Times
"Burger King is introducing a Whopper made with a vegetarian patty from...
Computers were once considered high-end technology, only accessible to scientists and trained professionals. But there was a seismic shift in the history of computing...
Renewable energy demand and capacity are growing explosively. When looking at numbers for wind energy production, China stands above all other countries. Figures released...
Two billion years ago, on a geochemically bubbly youth Earth, a simple bacteria engulfed its neighbor. Rather than dissolving into nutrients, against all odds...
