Andy AkhigbeChina will track its citizens' every move with a facial recognition systemverified_publisherTNW - Abhimanyu GhoshalAfter leading the charge globally in manufacturing hardware, China has its sights set on a major technological achievement: developing a facial recognition system to visually identify all 1.3 billion citizens nationwide. South China Morning Post noted that the project has been in the works since …
Andy AkhigbeScientists Are Creating Materials From DNAverified_publisherfuturism.com - Brad JonesGene editing can be used for much more than treating diseases. Doing More With DNA Chemists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have …
Andy AkhigbeInside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the BrainMIT Technology Review - M. Mitchell WaldropAI is only loosely modeled on the brain. So what if you wanted to do it right? You’d need to do what has been impossible until now: map what actually …
Andy AkhigbeHave scientists found a way to ‘turbocharge’ the human brain?NBC News - By Dom Galeon, FuturismIn preliminary research, people learned faster and made fewer mistakes when a particular brain region was electrically stimulated. In brief: What if you could improve your mental aptitude and performance by directly stimulating specific parts of the brain? That's what a team of researchers from …
Andy AkhigbeThis New Charging System Lets Electric Cars Pay For Themselves By Selling Energy Back To The Gridverified_publisherFast Company - By Adele PetersA new charging system will let the cars serve as batteries for the grid–making you cash as they sit in your driveway. If you buy a Nissan Leaf in the U.K. in 2018, you probably won’t ever have to pay to charge your new electric car. Anyone who has a garage will be able to sign up for a new program …
Andy AkhigbeCRISPR Is on the Cusp of Eradicating a Host of Diseasesverified_publisherfuturism.com - Karla LantLiver disease, hepatitis B, sickle cell disease, cardiovascular disease, muscular dystrophy, and Huntington's disease are all in CRISPR's …