This Company Wants to Put a Human-Size Hologram Booth in Your Living Room
Over the last several months we’ve gotten very used to communicating via video chat. Zoom, FaceTime, Google Hangouts, and the like have not only...
Another Win for Senolytics: Fighting Aging at the Cellular Level Just Got Easier
Longevity research always reminds me of the parable of blind men and an elephant. A group of blind men, who’ve never seen an elephant...
MIT Report: Robots Aren’t the Biggest Threat to the Future of Work—Policy Is
Fears of a robot-driven jobs apocalypse are a recurring theme in the media. But a new report from MIT has found that technology is...
The Trillion-Transistor Chip That Just Left a Supercomputer in the Dust
The history of computer chips is a thrilling tale of extreme miniaturization.
The smaller, the better is a trend that’s given birth to the digital...
Science Fiction Explores the Interconnectedness Revealed by the Coronavirus Pandemic
In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, a theory widely shared on social media suggested that a science fiction text, Dean Koontz’s 1981...
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 21)
HEALTH
Larry Brilliant Says We'll Beat Covid—After We Go Through Hell
Steven Levy | Wired
"The epidemiologist calls it 'the best of times and the worst of...
Who Should Get a Covid-19 Vaccine First?
If the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics, as Galileo once declared, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought that truth home...
A 3D Printed Apartment Building Is Going Up in Germany
3D printing is making strides in the construction industry. In just a couple years we’ve seen the tech produce single-family homes in a day,...
How Fake Viruses Can Help Us Make the Best Possible Vaccines
Roughly 15 years ago, in a seeming prank, a pair of smiley faces graced the cover of Nature, one of the world’s preeminent science...
McDonald’s Is Making a Plant-Based Burger; You Can Try It in 2021
Fast-food chains have been doing what they can in recent years to health-ify their menus. For better or worse, burgers, fries, fried chicken, roast...
This Is How We’ll Engineer Artificial Touch
Take a Jeopardy! guess: this body part was once referred to as the “consummation of all perfection as an instrument.”
Answer: “What is the human...
90% of the Global Power Capacity Added in 2020 Will Be Renewable
There’s been plenty of hand-wringing about the potential for the Covid-19 pandemic to distract from the ongoing fight against climate change. But the latest...
Will the Coronavirus Evolve to Be Less Deadly?
No lethal pandemic lasts forever. The 1918 flu, for example, crisscrossed the globe and claimed tens of millions of lives, yet by 1920, the...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 14)
COMPUTING
Like a Futuristic Phone Booth, PORTL Lets You Communicate Via Full-Body Hologram
Luke Dormehl | Digital Trends
" wants to reinvent the way we beam people,...
