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What's up in emerging technology
Tesla Is Looking to Test Self-Driving, Electric Trucks With No Driver On Board
The FCC Is Hinting it Might Change its Rules to Hide America’s Digital Divide
Softbank Is Investing $1.1 Billion to Help a Biotech Firm’s Tech Drive
Mazda’s New Gas Engine Proves There’s Still Life in Internal Combustion
South Korea Is Decreasing Tax Breaks on Automation, and That’s Probably a Bad Idea
Intelligent Machines
Andrew Ng’s Next Trick: Training a Million AI Experts
Millions of people should master deep learning, says a leading AI researcher and educator.

Rewriting Life
FDA Cracks Down on Pioneering Doctor Who Created a Three-Parent Baby
The agency is taking a hard line on a controversial fertility technique that involves genetically modifying embryos.
Business Impact
The 5 Smartest Companies Analyzing Your DNA
These companies are leading the charge in consumer and medical genetics.

Rewriting Life
A New Way to Reproduce
Scientists are trying to manufacture eggs and sperm in the laboratory. Will it end reproduction as we know it?

Connectivity
A Smart Watch to Help Blind People Navigate
The sonar-equipped Sunu Band buzzes harder the closer an object is.

Intelligent Machines
An Algorithm Trained on Emoji Knows When You’re Being Sarcastic on Twitter
Understanding sarcasm could help AI fight racism, abuse, and harassment.
View from the Marketplace
How Will We Solve Big Energy Challenges?
How will industry leaders, government officials, researchers, entrepreneurs - lift billions of people out of poverty - and continue to advance technological civilization? Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of MIT Technology Review delivers a striking message of collaboration from the Offshore Technology Conference Statoil Reception in Houston, Texas.
Custom Research Report
Finance and HR: The Cloud’s New Power Partnership
View from the Marketplace
Fight Scale with Scale
Samsung has rebounded from its battery-related challenges by expanding its fault resolution capabilities and is now positioned to revolutionize the manner in which the global smartphone industry mitigates future issues. Samsung’s solution could have massive ramifications for the industry, creating a quality control platform in which the entire industry may participate.
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More videosRewriting Life
CRISPR Decoded 02:22
Your two-minute guide to understanding how the revolutionary gene editing technology works.
Features
Business Impact
It Pays to Be Smart
Superstar companies are dominating the economy by exploiting a growing gap in digital competencies.

From Our Current Issue
Internet of Things: A World on the Move
Sponsored by Siemens
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If Only a Simple Gadget Rating Could Save Us From Cyberattack
Suggestions that a security score be awarded to connected devices is a lovely idea that would be almost impossible to implement.
by Jamie Condliffe

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Botnets of Things: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017
The relentless push to add connectivity to home gadgets is creating dangerous side effects that figure to get even worse.
by Bruce Schneier

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Personal AI Privacy Watchdog Could Help You Regain Control of Your Data
If regulators aren’t going to help consumers make sense of what companies are doing with their data, maybe artificial intelligence can.
by Mike Orcutt

Intelligent Machines
Artificial intelligence and robots are transforming how we work and live.
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Reinforcement Learning: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017
By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them.
by Will Knight

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What AI Needs to Learn to Master Alien Warfare
AI agents need new ideas to compete in the popular strategy game StarCraft.
by Will Knight

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“Alexa, Understand Me”
Voice-based AI devices aren’t just jukeboxes with attitude. They could become the primary way we interact with our machines.
by George Anders

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Sustainable Energy
Can we sustainably provide food, water, and energy to a growing population during a climate crisis?
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Inside the Fall, and Rebirth, of a Bill Gates–Backed Battery Startup
A China Titans affiliate bought the bankrupt storage startup Aquion and plans to sell its batteries directly to big grid operators.
by James Temple

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China Builds One of the World’s Largest Geoengineering Research Programs
Backed by $3 million in federal funds, scientists are assessing how geoengineering would impact agriculture, glaciers, sea levels and more.
by James Temple

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Tesla’s Model 3 Is a Long Way from Elon Musk’s Grand Goal
Many things still need to change before electric vehicles can become a mainstream choice.
by James Temple

AI Meets CRM: Transforming Customer Experiences
Sponsored by Salesforce
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Transform Customer Experiences by Harnessing the Power of AI in CRM
Companies are using AI to build personalized and dynamic experiences to engage both internal and external audiences.
by MIT Technology Review Custom

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Artificial Intelligence for Everyone: A Next-Generation Experience
Organizations today are challenged with mining, analyzing and putting to good use the vast amounts of data now flooding in from multiple checkpoints. How to utilize that data to get closer to internal and external customers?
by MIT Technology Review Custom

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Customer Data Meets AI
A new day is dawning for the customer experience, driven by the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automated technologies to CRM data. The potential exists to transform the customer’s experience by providing service in a more predictive and intuitive way than ever before.
by MIT Technology Review Custom

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Innovations, Ideas, and Insights
Provided by BBVA
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Our Extended Sensoria. How Humans Will Connect with the Internet of Things
Mark Weiser predicted the Internet of Things in a seminal article in 1991 about how people would interact with networked computation distributed into the environments and artifacts around them.
by Joseph A. Paradiso

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Interstellar travel and post-humans
The stupendous time-spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture.
by Martin Rees

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Robotics, Smart Materials, and their Future Impact for Humans
We are on the cusp of a robotics revolution in which the boundaries between artificial intelligence and biology are blurring.
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