China’s Gene-Edited Babies May Become Super Smart
New research indicates that the controversial use of CRISPR gene-editing on twin girls in China last year might have inadvertently improved their cognitive capacities, including their ability to learn and form memories, leading … Read the rest
Basketball Sneakers You Can Tighten With Your Smartphone
Nike is preparing to launch a new self-lacing basketball shoefor the masses (that’s us) that can also accommodate prescribed tightness settings.
Just before Christmas Nike revealed its redesigned self-lacing shoes would arrive … Read the rest
Mad Scientists Consider Alerting Aliens To Our Presence
Although it’s a great idea for science fiction, I consider the idea of deliberately trying to tell aliens that we exist to be extreme folly.
But a new MIT studyoutlines a way … Read the rest
London Cab Company Addison Lee Developing Self-Drive Taxis
After undertaking a year-long investigation with Ford and four other mobility specialists on how to build self-driving systems that integrate with London’s existing transport infrastructure, Addison Lee has announced the next step … Read the rest
Wireeless “Black Box” Remotely Monitors Your Health
Imagine a box, similar to a Wi-Fi router, that sits in your home and tracks all kinds of physiological signalsas you move from room to room: your breathing, heart rate, sleep, gait, and … Read the rest
VR Headset Gives The Partially Sighted Better Sight
A virtual reality headset has restored sight to people who are legally blind. While it didn’t cure the physical cause of their blindness, the device let people with severe macular degeneration resume … Read the rest
Attitudes Toward “Designer Babies” Start To Change
Letting parents use new gene-editing technology to pick characteristics of their unbornchild can be “morally acceptable”as long as it doesn’t increase social inequalities, an influential medical ethics group has said.
In a major … Read the rest
Uber’s App Will Soon Be Able To Tell If You’re Drunk
For many commuters who have had one too many after work, Uber has been a godsend, allowing over-the-limit passengers to stumble into a cab and get dropped off outside … Read the rest
Putting The Whole Planet Under Real-Time Surveillance
Airbus SEand two of the world’s most recognizable tech billionaires, MicrosoftCorp. founder Bill Gates and SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son, propose to build and launch some 500 small satellites intended to … Read the rest
New Crypto Currency Offers Accountability and Transparency
Some of the world’s best-known economists have announced plans to create what could be described as the thinking person’s cryptocurrency.
Saga aims to address many of the criticisms frequently thrown at bitcoin, the … Read the rest