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Week of January 21
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Connectivity
Will people ditch cash for cryptocurrency? Japan is about to find out
The world’s largest experiment in using blockchain-based networks to pay for things is about to begin.
Ethereum’s got a hard forking problem thanks to another delayed upgrade
Software bugs are holding things up, and it’s turned into a referendum on the cryptocurrency’s decentralized nature.
Intelligent Machines
Three charts show how China’s AI industry is propped up by three companies
More than half of the country’s major AI players have funding ties that lead back to Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent.
AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong
Using historical data to train risk assessment tools could mean that machines are copying the mistakes of the past.
Giving algorithms a sense of uncertainty could make them more ethical
Algorithms are best at pursuing a single mathematical objective—but humans often want multiple incompatible things.
We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find the damn cables
Quantum machines will deliver the next great leap forward in computing, but researchers building them can’t easily get some of the exotic components they need.
Rewriting Life
We won’t use CRISPR to make super-smart babies—but only because we can’t
Gene experts speculate that our worst gene-editing fears won’t come true because they are too complex for us to pull them off.
Sustainable Energy
Let’s keep the Green New Deal grounded in science
Advocates hope the proposal will inspire voters, but that’s no reason it has to ignore the latest research.
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The European Space Agency wants to mine the moon for oxygen and water
Amazon’s experimental, six-wheel delivery robot is taking to the streets
Computer science reveals why this headline is not funny
To uncover the secrets of humor, researchers crowdsourced the task of turning satirical sentences from The Onion into serious ones.
CERN wants to build a particle collider that’s four times bigger than the LHC
CRISPR babies are real and the scientist who made them sought “personal fame and fortune”
AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong
Using historical data to train risk assessment tools could mean that machines are copying the mistakes of the past.
WhatsApp is banning you from forwarding the same message to more than five people
Repeating radio bursts from outside our galaxy have been detected for the second time
Will people ditch cash for cryptocurrency? Japan is about to find out
The world’s largest experiment in using blockchain-based networks to pay for things is about to begin.
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