Technology
The era of editing human genes to treat inherited disease has arrived. That’s according to a pair of biotech companies that say they’ve eliminated painful symptoms from two patients with blood diseases.
Because when it comes to communicating any issue at a global scale, things just inherently start to sound theatrical, no matter how much science gets thrown around.
AI will need to go through a number of stages of development before it reaches the most extreme scenarios – if ever.
Akihiko Kondo doesn't have the air of a rebel. This year, however, the bespectacled school administrator bucked conventional norms.
He married a hologram.
Amazon has found its way into just about every part of people’s shopping lives. Once a fledgling online bookstore, the tech giant has changed retail as we know it. As we look at the year ahead, we asked two leading futurists to predict what Amazon will be selling you in a decade.
It's clever, if also a commentary on Japan's labor priorities.
E coli microbes have been modified to carry an expanded genetic code which researchers say will ultimately allow them to be programmed.
Making quantum computing accessible will help accelerate progress in artificial intelligence (AI). Speed up computing, and you enhance the performance of deep learning.
BrainNet allows collaborative problem-solving using direct brain-to-brain communication.