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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One of life’s mysteries is why life exists in the first place, and the mystery of consciousness comes a close…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Companies are always trying to reduce the cost of producing fuel, and if they could find a way to remove…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s plastics can’t be recycled forever because of the way they’re made and the way recycling systems today work, but…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI makes facts up, heck it bullshits as well, so how do we stop if from doing that? Love…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are increasingly learning how to manipulate the code of life – DNA – and we’re doing some very weird…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI neural networks made out of DNA will let us create “AI’s in a test tube” that will usher in…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Breakthroughs in supercapacitor technology will have multiple benefits, from helping to create new renewable energy grid-scale electric storage systems and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The opioid crisis has shown that drugs have their limits and downsides so what if we could treat pain without…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the number of solar energy installations increase storing the energy they produce, so it can be released to the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As Brain Machine Interfaces improve you’re not going to need to be tethered to a computer. Love the Exponential…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We’re conditioned to think that computer chips should be small, but a supercomputer made from chips the size of dinner…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If human consciousness taps into or relies on the weirdness of quantum mechanics then it’s conceivable it could span the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Fast fashion, and fashion in general, is responsible for huge amounts of landfill and waste, so they recycling industry is…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We all too often think of machines, and robots, as static things, but new breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, manufacturing, and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The way that we vaccinate people today is, arguably, outmoded, but the next generation of vaccines that are being produced…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Elsewhere countries are building floating cities to keep their citizens from drowning, KSA’s vision is more about being grandoise. …
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There is a literal geopolitical war brewing over the availability of rare earth elements, but now a new process could…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As companies try to find ways to easily render the real world into virtual worlds, this is a space that…
IBM’s TrueNorth, a cognitive “neuromorphic” computing chip whose architecture resembles that of the human brain – although it switches neurons for transistors, is being trialled by Samsung…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF You don’t have to be a celebrity any longer to be turned into a DeepFake, now noone’s safe. Recently…
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