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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through October 27)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The AI Cold War That Could Doom Us All
Nicholas Thompson | Wired
"At the dawn of a new stage in the digital revolution, the world’s two most powerful nations are rapidly retreating into positions...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through October 20)
DIGITAL MEDIA
Actors Are Digitally Preserving Themselves to Continue Their Careers Beyond the Grave
Erin Winick | MIT Technology Review
"Earlier this year Last Jedi visual-effects supervisor Ben Morris told Inverse that the Star Wars franchise is now scanning all its leads....
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through October 13)
ROBOTICS
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Shows Off Parkour Skills
Erico Guizzo | IEEE Spectrum
"The remarkable evolution of Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ most agile robot, continues. In a video posted today, Atlas is seen jumping over a log and...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through October 6)
ROBOTICS
The Demise of Rethink Robotics Shows How Hard It Is to Make Machines Truly Smart
Will Knight | MIT Technology Review
"There’s growing interest in using recent advances in AI to make industrial robots a lot smarter and more useful....
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through September 29)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How Google's DeepMind Will Train Its AI Inside Unity's Video Game Worlds
Sean Captain | Fast Company
"DeepMind, part of Google parent company Alphabet, is going big on virtual world AI training through a deal...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through September 22)
ROBOTICS
Meet the Winner of Robotics' World Cup
Editorial Staff | MIT Technology Review
"If you are under the impression that the recent soccer World Cup was won by a fine French team that triumphed over Croatia...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through September 15)
GENETICS
Plan to Build a Genetic Noah's Ark Includes a Staggering 66,000 Species
George Dvorsky | Gizmodo
"As its name implies, this group had initially planned to sequence the genomes of at least 10,000 vertebrate species,...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through September 8)
TECHNOLOGY
Google Turns 20: How an Internet Search Engine Reshaped the World
Editorial Staff | The Verge
"No technology company is arguably more responsible for shaping the modern internet, and modern life, than Google. The company that...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through September 1)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority. Will Silicon Valley Help?
Cade Metz | The New York Times
"The consultants and planners who try to forecast threats think AI could be the next technological game...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 25)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
God Is in the Machine
Carl Miller | The Times Literary Supplement
"Algorithms have changed, from Really Simple to Ridiculously Complicated. They are capable of accomplishing tasks and tackling problems that they’ve never been able...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 18)
FUTURE
What the Year 2050 Has in Store for Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari | Wired
"Humankind is facing unprecedented revolutions, all our old stories are crumbling and no new story has so far emerged to replace them....
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 11)
MIXED REALITY
I Tried Magic Leap and Saw a Flawed Glimpse of Mixed Reality's Amazing Potential
Adi Robertson | The Verge
"Whether or not it’s cooler than most people think, the Magic Leap One is cooler than...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through August 4)
TECHNOLOGY
Apple Is Worth One Trillion Dollars
Ian Bogost | The Atlantic
"Tech magnates crow too often about 'changing the world,' but this is what it really looks like, for good and for ill. It’s what railroads...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 28)
ROBOTICS
Can a Robot Be a Very Good Doggo? Boston Dynamics Hopes So
Nick Lucchesi | Inverse
"Boston Dynamics has plans to take its robotic helpers mainstream next year: By July 2019, it will be on pace...
