The disconnect is huge: Even as countries of the world pledge to cut their greenhouse gas emissions going into the Paris climate talks, recent analyses suggest that overall emissions will still rise through the year 2030, and current national...
Read moreWatch CRISPR edit DNA in real time
CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat, refers to the unique organization of repeating DNA sequences. These sequences are a critical part of the immune systems of microorganisms like bacteria. The CRISPR system can...
Read moreScientists could eradicate pain by rewiring your brain
With the U.S. facing a epidemic-level addiction crisis, scientists are looking for novel ways to treat pain that don’t involve dangerous, highly addictive medications like opioids. Some researchers are even making inroads on therapies and...
Read moreBlockchain (& AI) Will Rewire Whole Industries
Everyone’s obsessed with blockchain – and for good reason. Blockchain is a technology that can solve some of the most vexing technological, professional and personal problems we face. But despite the elegance, complexity and security of the...
Read moreBlockchain and IoT: made for each other?
Blockchain and IoT provide several tangible benefits as individual technologies, but to really unlock their potential it is important to understand how they work together. Jean-Luc Scherer explores the myriad benefits of their convergence…
Read moreThe future is coming. Here’s what it might look like
Emergent technologies are poised to radically change how we work and live. They will transform our cities and workplaces, shifting jobs and entrepreneurship in new directions, and spur new ways to manage our lives. All of society will be...
Read moreDubai Just Appointed a “State Minister for Artificial Intelligence”
Governments around the world are beginning to understand the potential and importance of artificial intelligence (AI). International acceptance has spread with the implementation of AI regulations, like what has been created in Germany. For...
Read moreChina and India can teach the developing world a lot
Indonesia shares similar characteristics with China and India as Asian countries that have more people between the ages of 15 and 64 than young children and the elderly. Analysts call this surplus of people of productive working age a...
Read moreThe future of work could lie in freelancing
Today, freelancers represent 35% of the United States workforce. In the European Union, the rate is 16.1%. Both figures demonstrate the same global trend: from creative entrepreneurs to those paid by the task, freelancing is on the rise...
Read moreGermany has developed a set of ethical guidelines for self-driving cars
The German federal government will adopt new guidelines for self-driving cars inside the country, which will prioritize the value and equality of human life over damage to property or animals. These guidelines, presented on Aug. 23 by an ethics...
Read moreThe society of the future looks nothing like you might imagine
What is a “smart” society? While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often...
Read moreCambodia’s education minister on reforms and the fourth industrial revolution
It’s 8am on a Wednesday and Hang Chuon Naron, an economist who has been Cambodia’s education minister since 2013, has spent the past five minutes discussing the myriad ways in which artificial intelligence will change the world. After pondering...
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