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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We live in a digital world where we are influenced by things we see on social media and online, and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Technology is reaching the point where people can communicate with one another via their dreams, and that makes sci-fi look…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In a large trial AI matched and outperformed human physiotherapists and now it’s been put in charge of a major…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day AI will be ably to outfly human pilots in all situations, and that day is approaching fast.  …

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The French have found a new way to generate energy and bio-products from datacenter waste energy.   Love the Exponential…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Malware is finally appearing in the last place you’d think of – web URLs and it’s proving devastatingly effective at…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Graphene is a 2D wonder material with amazing properties which make it ideal for computing applications, but so far it’s…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine being able to wipe out deadly viruses by using themselves against themselves … that’s what this tech does at…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if rather than protecting the data from hackers we created new unhackable data storage materials instead?   Love the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Slime robots can go places that other robots can’t and could have valuable applications in everything from healthcare to the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are getting closer to being able to create organisms that are 100% synthetic DNA and that are truly artificial…