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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 23)
COMPUTING
A Giant Superfast AI Chip Is Being Used to Find Better Cancer Drugs
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
"Thus far, Cerebras’s computer has checked all the boxes. Thanks to its chip size—it is larger than...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 16)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence
Matthew Hutson | Quanta
"In a recent paper, Clune argues that open-ended discovery is likely the fastest path toward artificial general intelligence—machines with nearly all the capabilities of...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 9)
ROBOTICS
It's That Time of Year Again—Fall Is Here and Packs of Robot Dogs Are Frolicking in the Leaves
James Vincent | The Verge
"There’s nothing I like more on bright and cold autumnal days than heading...
Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine Kicks Off Today in San Diego
Tech is changing almost every aspect of modern life, and medicine and healthcare are no exception. New technologies are bringing quick advancement to areas that need them, and enabling rapid progress in everything from...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 2)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DeepMind Has Finally Thrashed Humans at StarCraft for Real
Alex Lee | Wired
"...after 44 days training the neural network, DeepMind was not only successful in trouncing its human opponents under similar human-level constraints, but...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 26)
GENETICS
A New CRISPR Technique Could Fix Almost All Genetic Diseases
Megan Molteni | Wired
"The system, which Liu’s lab has dubbed 'prime editing,' can for the first time make virtually any alteration—additions, deletions, swapping any single...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 19)
AUTOMATION
Alphabet's Wing Starts Drone Deliveries to US Homes
Kris Holt | Engadget
"Alphabet's Wing has started making deliveries by drone to homes in the US for the first time. During a pilot program in Christiansburg, Virginia, drones...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 12)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How to Stop Superhuman AI Before It Stops Us
Stuart Russell | The New York Times
"Once the focus shifts from building machines that are 'intelligent' to ones that are 'beneficial,' controlling them will become...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 5)
AUTOMATION
UPS Gets FAA Clearance to Roll Out a Fleet of Delivery Drones
Allison Matyus | Digital Trends
"The move essentially will allow UPS to create its own drone airline. The company’s UPS Flight Forward program now has full...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 21)
FUTURE
Protesting Climate Change, Young People Take to Streets in a Global Strike
Somini Sengupta | The New York Times
"Anxious about their future on a hotter planet and angry at world leaders for failing to arrest...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 14)
BIOTECH
Meet the 'Artificial Embryos' Being Called Uncanny and Spectacular
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review
"...scientists believe that it might not be long before they can synthesize embryos in the lab that are almost indistinguishable from...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 7)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A Molecule Designed by AI Exhibits 'Druglike' Qualities
Gregory Barber | Wired
"Lots of people are designing machine learning pipelines to produce virtual molecules, but relatively few have published research validating the work in the...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 31)
COMPUTING
A Carbon Nanotube Microprocessor Mature Enough to Say Hello
Samuel K. Moore | IEEE Spectrum
"It’s the most complex integration of carbon nanotube-based CMOS logic so far, with nearly 15,000 transistors, and it was done using...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 24)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
To Power AI, This Startup Built a Really, Really Big Chip
Tom Simonite | Wired
"The silicon monster is almost 22 centimeters—roughly 9 inches—on each side, making it likely the largest computer chip ever, and a monument...
Singularity University’s Global Summit Kicks off Today in San Francisco
Singularity University’s (SU) annual Global Summit begins today in San Francisco, running through Wednesday, August 21. The Singularity Hub team is on the ground to bring you inside access to the event with articles...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 17)
AUGMENTED REALITY
This Is the Computer You'll Wear on Your Face in 10 Years
Mark Sullivan | Fast Company
" foreshadow a device that many of us may wear as our primary personal computing device in about...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 10)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Inside DeepMind's Epic Mission to Solve Science's Trickiest Problem
Greg Williams | Wired UK
"For Hassabis, Suleyman and Legg, if the first nine years of DeepMind have been defined by proving its research into reinforcement...
Where Death Ends and Cyborgs Begin, With Futurist Zoltan Istvan
Transhumanism is a growing movement but also one of the most controversial. Though there are many varying offshoots within the movement, the general core idea is the same: evolve and enhance human beings by...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 3)
NEUROSCIENCE
Facebook Is Funding Brain Experiments to Create a Device That Reads Your Mind
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review
"The research is important because it could help show whether a wearable brain-control device is feasible and...
Exploring the Great Mysteries of Consciousness and Free Will With Annaka Harris
For thousands of years, humankind has been plagued by to two essential questions: Why do I have this unique voice inside my head? And am I in control of it or am I simply...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 27)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI to Pursue Holy Grail of Artificial Intelligence
James Vincent | The Verge
"i'The creation of AGI will be the most important technological development in human history, with the potential...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 20)
ROBOTICS
Boston Dynamics' Robots Are Preparing to Leave the Lab—Is the World Ready?
James Vincent | The Verge
"After decades of kicking machines in parking lots, the company is set to launch its first ever commercial bot...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 13)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
'Superhuman' AI Crushes Pros at Six-Player Texas Hold'em
George Dvorsky | Gizmodo
" said, 'Poker in particular has been an early sandbox for AI, and to show such a level of dominance in an unrestricted...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 6)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Machine Learning Has Been Used to Automatically Translate Long-Lost Languages
Emerging Technology from the arXiv | MIT Technology Review
"Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 29)
MINIATURIZATION
Self-Assembling Microrobots Can Be Programmed to Form a Tiny Steerable Car
Luke Dormehl | Digital Trends
"Remember the way that different 'Zords' in Power Rangers joined to together to form a larger Megazord? It’s basically that—only...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 22)
ROBOTICS
This Freaky Robotic Fish Is Powered by 'Blood'
George Dvorsky | Gizmodo
"In an effort to create more autonomous, life-like robots, scientists have developed a soft robotic lionfish with a multi-functional circulatory system. A blood-like compound...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 15)
HEALTH
Laser Destroys Cancer Cells Circulating in the Blood
Emily Waltz | IEEE Spectrum
"Tumor cells that spread cancer via the bloodstream face a new foe: a laser beam, shined from outside the skin, that finds and...
Why Big Organizations Need to Hack Their Cultures to Become More Innovative
Big established companies know they must innovate to survive, but often fail to do so. Startups, meanwhile, are born innovating. While it's tempting to apply the startup model to legacy corporations, the truth is...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 8)
ROBOTICS
Inside the Amazon Warehouse Where Humans and Machines Become One
Matt Simon | Wired
"Seen from above, the scale of the system is dizzying. My robot, a little orange slab known as a 'drive' (or more...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 1)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DeepMind Can Now Beat Us at Multiplayer Games Too
Cade Metz | The New York Times
"DeepMind’s project is part of a broad effort to build artificial intelligence that can play enormously complex, three-dimensional video...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through May 25)
GENETICS
Gene Therapy Might Have Its First Blockbuster
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review
"...drug giant Novartis expects to win approval to launch what it says will be the first 'blockbuster' gene-replacement treatment. A blockbuster is any...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through May 18)
AUGMENTED REALITY
Minecraft Earth Wants to Be the Next Pokemon Go—Only Bigger
Peter Rubin | Wired
"It’s a massive undertaking that quite literally covers the entire globe in Minecraft—and is the biggest step yet taken toward the...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through May 11)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A New Way to Build Tiny Neural Networks Could Create Powerful AI on Your Phone
Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review
"If you can train a neural network locally on a device instead of in...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through May 4)
NANOTECHNOLOGY
The Microbots Are on Their Way
Kenneth Chang | The New York Times
"Like Frankenstein, Marc Miskin’s robots initially lie motionless. Then their limbs jerk to life. But these robots are the size of a speck...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 20)
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 exist a video game out there right now that a...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 13)
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 both earlier approaches by combining them. It overcomes the scalability...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 6)
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 the start-up Impossible Foods. The deal is a big step...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through March 30)
GENE EDITING
Genome Engineers Made More Than 13,000 Genome Edits in a Single Cell
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review
"The group, led by gene technologist George Church, wants to rewrite genomes at a far larger scale...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through March 23)
COMPUTING
Racing Against China, US Reveals Details of $500 Million Supercomputer
Don Clark | The New York Times
"Lab officials predict it will be the first American machine to reach a milestone called 'exascale' performance, surpassing a...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through March 16)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DeepMind and Google: The Battle to Control Artificial Intelligence
Hal Hodson | 1843
"Hassabis thought DeepMind would be a hybrid: it would have the drive of a startup, the brains of the greatest universities, and...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through March 9)
MEDICINE
HIV Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDs Epidemic
Apoorva Mandavilli | The New York Times
"Scientists have long tried to duplicate the procedure that led to the first long-term...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through March 2)
NEUROSCIENCE
Doctors Plan to Test a Gene Therapy That Could Prevent Alzheimer's Disease
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review
"Eventually, the hope is, middle-aged people with risky genes might undergo one-time genetic tune-ups. Even a small reduction...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through February 23)
GENETICS
Doubling Our DNA Building Blocks Could Lead to New Life Forms
Megan Molteni | Wired
" could have immediate impacts on the nascent DNA data storage industry and NASA’s search for life elsewhere in the solar system. It...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through February 16)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI Is Reinventing the Way We Invent
David Rotman | MIT Technology Review
"i'This is where the action is,' Alán Aspuru-Guzik says. 'AIs that drive cars, AIs that improve medical diagnostics, AIs for personal shopping—the...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through February 9)
AUTOMATION
The Rise of the Robot Reporter
Jaclyn Paiser | The New York Times
"In addition to covering company earnings for Bloomberg, robot reporters have been prolific producers of articles on minor league baseball for The Associated...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through February 2)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The World's Fastest Supercomputer Breaks an AI Record
Tom Simonite | Wired
"Summit, which occupies an area equivalent to two tennis courts, used more than 27,000 powerful graphics processors in the project. It tapped their...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through January 26)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DeepMind Beats Pros at Starcraft in Another Triumph for Bots
Tom Simonite | Wired
"DeepMind’s feat is the most complex yet in a long train of contests in which computers have beaten top humans at...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through January 19)
FUTURE
The Most Powerful Person in Silicon Valley
Katrina Brooker | Fast Company
"Billionaire Masayoshi Son—not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg—has the most audacious vision for an AI-powered utopia where machines control how we live....
Singularity Hub’s Top Articles of the Year
2018 was a big year for science and technology. The first gene-edited babies were born, as were the first cloned monkeys. SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon Heavy, and NASA's InSight lander placed a seismometer...
Breaking Out of the Corporate Bubble With Uncommon Partners
For big companies, success is a blessing and a curse. You don’t get big without doing something (or many things) very right. It might start with an invention or service the world didn’t know...
