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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Balancing is a difficult skill and now one robot has mastered it. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot – the world’s…
Worried that AI’s one day could make us their pets Elon Musk is teasing a new brain-hacking tech There’s no doubting that Elon Musk is…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Carbon nanotube transistors finally out perform their traditional silicon counterparts. The computing industry has long seen carbon nanotube transistors as…
Experts around the world agree that we could be entering an era of Cold War 2.0, and that’s bad news Foreign states such as China…
Directed energy weapons are coming of age For years, the Pentagon has pursued the dream of directed energy weapons, laser weapons, that could defeat a…
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 Facebook CEO said he was ‘deeply disappointed’ in explosion of Falcon 9 rocket carrying satellite intended to provide internet…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Rose’s Law for Quantum Computing highlights the new platforms sheer power to solve humanity’s and society’s most complex problems on, and…
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 Scientists have found a new chemical that could help drug addicts forget they were ever addicted. In the cult-classic “Eternal…
Researchers have shown for the first time that our ancestors memories can be passed down in DNA
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hackers, even AI ones, can’t break into your systems if they’re confused… or so goes the theory. Intelligence work…
