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• Categorized in TR10 2020

  The advances that really matter this year
• Categorized in Computing

  We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law

  It has fueled prosperity of the last 50 years. But the end is now in sight.
• Categorized in Space

  How satellite mega-constellations will change the way we use space

  And wherever humans go, they’ll be taking satellite constellations with them to moon and Mars.
• Categorized in Blockchain

  An elegy for cash: the technology we might never replace

  Cash is gradually dying out. Will we ever have a digital alternative that offers the same mix of convenience and freedom?
• Categorized in Computing

  Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth

  IBM thinks quantum supremacy is not the milestone we should care about.
• Categorized in Biotechnology and health

  If DNA is like software, can we just fix the code?

  In a race to cure his daughter, a Google programmer enters the world of hyper-personalized drugs.
• Categorized in Humans and technology

  The professionals who predict the future for a living

  Everywhere from business to medicine to the climate, forecasting the future is a complex and absolutely critical job. So how do you do it—and what comes next?
• Categorized in Artificial intelligence

  What AI still can’t do

  Artificial intelligence won’t be very smart if computers don’t grasp cause and effect. That’s something even humans have trouble with.
• Categorized in Humans and technology

  How big tech hijacked its sharpest, funniest critics

  Without design fiction, critical hits like Black Mirror would look very different.
• Categorized in Humans and technology

  Pollsters got it wrong in the 2016 election. Now they want another shot.

  There’s a new crowd of would-be oracles, determined not to replicate the mistakes of their predecessors.