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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly we are discovering what AI can do rather than inventing it, so researchers think, and this could be one…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Audio is increasingly becoming the medium of choice to steal biometrics and other information.   Love the Exponential Future? Join…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Machines are trained on data and vision, but sound plays a huge part in our world and now researchers are…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This is the cancer equivalent of 24/7 monitoring of patients cancers and treatments, and it’s a historic milestone.   Love…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If it’s connected it’s vulnerable to attack, and in the future everything is connected so we need new security technologies…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cyber attacks will only get bigger and bolder and today’s technologies can’t stop them. The MORPHEUS computer chip is a…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Satellites need fuel to maintain their orbits, and when that runs out they burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere. Fuel-less…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We think of batteries as having a common fixed shape, but structural batteries can be any shape and they’re the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The Earth is bathed in energy, and reversing climate change relies on us being able to capture and use it…