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This Is What an AI Said When Asked to Predict the Year Ahead
“What’s past is prologue.” So says the famed quote from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, alleging that we can look to what has already happened as...
How Advertising Will Get Way More Personal—and Then Vanish Completely
Today, less than two decades after the arrival of the internet, Google and Facebook together command more advertising dollars than all print media on the...
Neuromodulation Is the Secret Sauce for This Adaptive, Fast-Learning AI
As obstinate and frustrating as we are sometimes, humans in general are pretty flexible when it comes to learning—especially compared to AI.
Our ability to...
20 Technology Metatrends That Will Define the Next Decade
In the decade ahead, waves of exponential technological advancements are stacking atop one another, eclipsing decades of breakthroughs in scale and impact.
Emerging from these...
The Company That Wants to Fling Rockets Into Space With a Giant Centrifuge
The rapidly falling cost of getting into orbit has spurred a boom in the space industry as a host of new applications become economical....
Blind Woman Sees With New Implant, Plays Video Game Sent Straight to Her Brain
It’s been over a decade since artificial retinas first began helping the blind see. But for many people, whose blindness originates beyond the retina,...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 8)
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CRISPR'd Cells Show Promise in First US Human Safety Trial
Megan Molteni | Wired
"The highly anticipated results showed that the procedure is both safe...
12 Ways Big Tech Can Take Big Action on Climate Change
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have invested $1 billion in Breakthrough Energy to fund next-generation solutions to tackle climate. But there is a huge...
The Weirdest, Wildest Ways We’re Using Drones—and What’s Ahead
Drones haven’t made too many headlines over the past few months, but they came back with a vengeance this week and last, with all...
Work in the Age of Web 3.0
What is the future of work? Is our future one of ‘technological socialism’ (where technology is taking care of our needs)? Or will tomorrow's...
How AI Helped Predict the Coronavirus Outbreak Before It Happened
Coronavirus has been all over the news for the last couple weeks. A dedicated hospital sprang up in just eight days, the stock market...
Verily’s Bold New Project Aims to Predict Depression Using Your Phone
Depression is a shifting, amorphous beast that silently haunts millions. It’s also difficult to pinpoint.
Psychiatry has formulated well-tested questionnaires to diagnose depression. But these...
Could Photonic Chips Outpace the Fastest Supercomputers?
There's been a lot of talk about quantum computers being able to solve far more complex problems than conventional supercomputers. The authors of a...
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