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The Startup Behind NYC’s Plan to Replace Phone Booths with 7,500 Connected Kiosks
Intersection, which is funded by Alphabet, hopes they could someday guide autonomous vehicles, too.
Intelligent Machines
Karamba Is Writing Software to Keep Your Connected Car from Getting Hacked
In Israeli’s cybersecurity-focused tech scene, cars are becoming a hot area.
Connectivity
If You Get Your Face Scanned the Next Time You Fly, Here’s What You Should Know
We aren’t entirely sure what the government is doing with the images.
Rewriting Life
Scientists Used CRISPR to Put a GIF Inside a Living Organism’s DNA
Harvard researchers embedded images in the genomes of bacteria to test the limits of DNA storage.
Intelligent Machines
Biased Algorithms Are Everywhere, and No One Seems to Care
The big companies developing them show no interest in fixing the problem.
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Trump Talk Aside, Auto Manufacturing and Automation Are Booming in Mexico
A visit to the country’s Bajío region finds a thriving car ecosystem.
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The Unaffordable Urban Paradise
Tech startups helped turn a handful of metro areas into megastars. Now they’re tearing those cities apart.
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A Field Guide to Digital Transformation
Hybrid IT, edge computing and other advanced technologies can help companies accelerate time to value.
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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.
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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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Virtual Reality’s Missing Element: Other People
VR can be the basis of a new communications industry if the technology becomes less insular and isolating.
Rewriting Life
Reprogramming our bodies to make us healthier.
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3-D-Printed Artificial Heart Beats Like the Real Thing But Isn’t Much Use Yet
It pumps blood using ventricles like those of a real heart, but it begins to degrade after just 3,000 beats.
by Jamie Condliffe
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Verily Robot Will Raise 20 Million Sterile Mosquitoes for Release in California
The company, an arm of Alphabet, is using mosquitoes infected with a sterilizing bacteria to fight dengue and Zika.
by Emily Mullin
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Scientists Used CRISPR to Put a GIF Inside a Living Organism’s DNA
Harvard researchers embedded images in the genomes of bacteria to test the limits of DNA storage.
by Emily Mullin
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Connectivity
What it means to be constantly connected with each other and vast sources of information.
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$99 Headset Could Be Augmented Reality’s First True Chance at a Mass Market
Its success will depend mostly on the kind of content that developers create.
by Rachel Metz
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Will We Ever Stop the Robocallers?
Americans are “mad as hell” about telephone spam, says the FCC chairman—but they may have to get used to it.
by Mike Orcutt
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A Laser Sensor on an iPhone Would Make a Lot of Sense
The feature could help Apple’s push to develop compelling augmented-reality applications.
by Jamie Condliffe
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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
by Jonathan Rossiter
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The Next Step in Finance: Exponential Banking
The current technological revolution is accelerating the transformation, not only of industry and business, but also of human lifestyles, culture, and, therefore, society as a whole.
by Francisco Gonzalez
