Increased mortality from extreme heat could cost the United States an estimated $141 billion a year by 2090. Read more »
He Jiankui claims he created twin girls who had been edited so they were resistant to HIV. Was that ethical? Or even legal? Read more »
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 »