A daring effort is underway to create the first children whose DNA has been tailored using gene-editing. Read more »
A diet supplemented with red algae could lessen the huge amounts of greenhouse gases emitted by cows and sheep, if we can just figure out how to grow enough. Read more »
The delivery giant’s new machine-learning app aims to reroute packages away from snow and other trouble spots in its global network. Read more »
The main targets were foreign media websites, says a new service that automates censorship-tracking in countries governed by repressive regimes. Read more »
Securing today’s increasingly complex multi-cloud environments requires much more than simply having a security platform available on a particular infrastructure.
A startup says it has tackled a long-standing problem that has kept smart contracts from responding to events in the outside world. Read more »
Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk an AI arms race, and make the technology more accessible to the developing world. Read more »
The automaker believes sponsorship and ride-sharing will be key to making its nascent autonomous-car business take off. Read more »
The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that ride the wind so they never have to come down
A sensor that can spot the wind direction from miles away will let DARPA’s surveillance balloons hover at the very edge of space in one spot indefinitely. Read more »
But are the country’s next-generation power lines a clean-power play or a global power move? Read more »