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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are edging closer to living in the world of Minority Report, surrounded by technologies that authorise us, sense us…

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Microsoft has been toying around with FPGAs and now they’re on track to turn Azure into the world’s biggest supercomputer Microsoft is embarking on a major…

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Someone is probing the critical infrastructure of the internet for weaknesses and the attacks are getting larger Many people think the internet is persistent with…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D printed munitions just became a thing.   Last week, the Marine Corps‘ Next-Generation Logistics office quietly printed, and then…

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Machine learning could cut the time it takes to plan a patient’s radiotherapy treatment by hours Working out how to zap a tumour with radiation…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A British man could become the first person in the world to be cured of HIV using a new therapy designed…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Creating new lifeforms sounds like fun and they taste great too.   Raising glasses of genetically modified beer, the synthetic…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF US Government report lays out guidance for AI use and regulation and puts regulating super AI’s in the too hard…

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As humanity nears its goals of becoming an interplanetary species it’s inevitable one day that a new nation will take form In the wake of…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The security industry faces a paradigm shift as the US Government moves to predict cyber attacks before they happen.  …

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Berkeley Lab breakthrough might help to reboot Moores Law.   Transistor size is an important part of improving the price-performance of…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF After almost forty years of research speech recognition systems are now as good as humans.   Microsoft have announced that they have…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Google takes tracking and identifying individuals to a whole new level.   Whether it is online, or offline, your privacy is…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence can do great good, or great evil   Speaking at the launch of the Leverhulme Centre for the…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New transistor design scavenges energy and paves the way for ultra low power electronics.   Transistors are found in almost every…

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They’re finally here, now we’re just waiting for the laser guns The US Army have announced that they are going to be going all in…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There will always be questions about the viability and impact of releasing genetically modified organisms into our environment but with…

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What type of tree is that anyway? Cornell is creating a catalogue for Nature Engineers from Caltech have developed a method that uses data from…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum networks are unhackable, keeping data secure and making interception and eavesdropping impossible, now they can cover greater distances which…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Encryption is the primary tool that organisations and governments use to keep data safe and secure, when Quantum computers become…