Five of the World’s Biggest Central Banks Unite to Explore Launching Their Own Digital Currencies
In the beginning, there was Satoshi. It’s been a little over a decade since the pseudonymous founder of Bitcoin...
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Scientists Create First Ever Living, Programmable Organism
A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots.” This week, a...
The Brain Predicts Reward Like an AI, Says New DeepMind Research
The idea of reinforcement learning—or learning based on reward—has been around for so long it’s easy to forget we...
AI Investors, Crowdlending, and the Death of Cash
Every day, roughly 60 percent of all market trades are made by computer. When the market turns volatile, this...
How Google’s New Weather AI Will Make Sure You Never Get Caught in the Rain
Among the many things we’ve become addicted to on our smartphones is checking the weather. If you’re anything like...
Scientists Discovered ‘Mini-Computers’ in Human Neurons—and That’s Great News for AI
With just their input cables, human neurons can perform difficult logic calculations previously only seen in entire neural networks....
IBM’s Plan to Design Solid-State Batteries Using Quantum Tech
Batteries are the key to decarbonizing both transport and the grid, but today’s technology is still a long way...
The Top Biotech Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2020
Last year left us with this piece of bombshell news: He Jiankui, the mastermind behind the CRISPR babies scandal,...
How Scientists Squeezed a Particle Accelerator Onto a Tiny Silicon Chip
Particle accelerators have helped us unravel some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, but they’re huge, expensive, and inaccessible to...
What Needs to Happen to Get to the Flying Car Future
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world’s largest helicopter manufacturers will showcase what a city might...
