This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 11)
LONGEVITY
Meet Altos Labs, Silicon Valley's Latest Wild Bet on Living Forever
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review
"Altos is pursuing biological reprogramming technology, a way to...
New Research Reveals Animals Are Changing Their Body Shapes to Cope With Climate Change
Global warming is a big challenge for warm-blooded animals, which must maintain a constant internal body temperature. As anyone who’s experienced heatstroke can tell...
The World’s Largest Direct Air Capture Plant Is Now Pulling CO2 From the Air...
A little over four years ago, the world’s first commercial plant for sucking carbon dioxide out of the air opened near Zurich, Switzerland. The...
Hyundai Goes All-In on Hydrogen With Its ‘Trailer Drone’ and More
Between the grim outlook reported by the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report last month and frequent reports of extreme weather events all over the world,...
One Incredible Ocean Crossing May Have Made Human Evolution Possible
Humans evolved in Africa, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere—likely in Asia—before colonizing Africa. At the...
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Gene Therapies Are Almost Here, But Healthcare Isn’t Ready for Sky-High Prices
Zolgensma—which treats spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease that damages nerve cells, leading to muscle decay—is currently the most expensive drug in the...
New Mini-CRISPR Systems Could Dramatically Expand the Scope of Gene Therapy
CRISPR has revolutionized genome engineering, but the size of its molecular gene-editing components has limited its therapeutic uses so far. Now, a trio of...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 4)
COMPUTING
The $150 Million Machine Keeping Moore's Law Alive
Will Knight | Wired
"The technology will be crucial for making more advanced smartphones and cloud computers, and...
A Google AI Designed a Computer Chip as Well as a...
AI has finally come full circle.
A new suite of algorithms by Google Brain can now design computer chips—those specifically tailored for running AI software—that...
This Room Can Wirelessly Charge Devices Anywhere Within Its Walls
Today, wireless charging is little more than a gimmick for high-end smartphones or pricey electric toothbrushes. But a new approach that can charge devices...
A Quarter of Sun-Like Stars Eat Their Own Planets, According to New Research
How rare is our solar system? In the 30 years or so since planets were first discovered orbiting stars other than our sun, we...
Better Than Batteries? A Startup That’s Storing Energy in Concrete Blocks Just Raised $100...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Sixth Assessment Report in early August, and the outlook isn’t good. The report has added renewed...
Deep Learning Is Tackling Another Core Biology Mystery: RNA Structure
Deep learning is solving biology’s deepest secrets at breathtaking speed.
Just a month ago, DeepMind cracked a 50-year-old grand challenge: protein folding. A week later,...
America’s Biggest 3D Printed Building Is This New Military Barracks in Texas
3D printing is picking up speed as a construction technology, with 3D printed houses, schools, apartment buildings, and even Martian habitat concepts all being...
