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The internet is taking over a person’s life for Halloween. And you can be a part of it.

An MIT experiment is handing a single person’s free will to the crowd to test how the digital hive mind works. Read more »

Top battery scientists have a plan to electrify flight and slash airline emissions

Could a new battery designed for the demands of aviation solve one of the hardest problems in the climate puzzle? Read more »

The US pushes to build unhackable quantum networks

The fiber-optic cables carrying data across the internet are vulnerable to hacking. Two US initiatives aim to fix that by creating super-secure quantum transmissions. Read more »

A global ethics study aims to help AI solve the self-driving “trolley problem”

Millions of people in 233 countries weighed in on whose lives self-driving cars should prioritize, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures. Read more »

Two sick children and a $1.5 million bill: One family’s race for a gene therapy cure

One day, gene therapy may help with the rarest of diseases. Some parents aren’t waiting. Read more »

Are we designing inequality into our genes?

Designer babies aren’t futuristic. They’re already here. Read more »

Video doorbell firm Ring says its devices slash crime—but the evidence looks flimsy

The Amazon-owned security company says neighborhoods that use its products are safer, but the studies are unclear at best Read more »

Want to know when you’re going to die?

Your life span is written in your DNA, and we’re learning to read the code. Read more »

Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever

Your family and friends will be able to interact with a digital “you” that doles out advice—even when you’re gone. Read more »

We can now customize cancer cures, tumor by tumor

But can any company afford to manufacture one-off medical treatments? Read more »