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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world’s first robot assisted eye surgery paves the way for surgeries that were previously impossible.   British surgeons have…

NASA successfully sequences DNA in space, ushering in better healthcare for astranauts and a new era in space biology For the first time ever, DNA was…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is going “Digital” and the majority of companies in today’s world are either already becoming software companies, or…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hundreds of millions of people suffer every day from chronic disease, pain and illness but now a new class of…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The power of Bots is only just starting to be realised and it’s looking increasingly likely that the first industry they’ll…

Olympic teams used to look for marginal gains but now new technology gains appear to be anything but marginal Update [Aug 13 2016: 21.26GMT] Team GB…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Move over Heston Blumenthal there’s a new chef in town   Later this month, a 3D Printing pop up restaurant,…

An artificial intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful….

Rolls Royce plans for a future full of fleets of autonomous cargo ships Rolls Royce and the led Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) believe…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Never visit the dentists again and eat all the sweet stuff you like. Marvellous!   Scientists in the UK have…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Growing your own products just became a thing.   If you needed to be convinced just how fast technology is…