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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Creating new lifeforms sounds like fun and they taste great too. Raising glasses of genetically modified beer, the synthetic…
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…
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…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The security industry faces a paradigm shift as the US Government moves to predict cyber attacks before they happen. …
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…
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…
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…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence can do great good, or great evil Speaking at the launch of the Leverhulme Centre for the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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