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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 »

Your next doctor’s appointment might be with an AI

A new wave of chatbots are replacing physicians and providing frontline medical advice—but are they as good as the real thing? Read more »

Should You Migrate Your DevOps Architecture to the Cloud?

Evolving DevOps practices will require a new level of agility and speed to deployment. Advancements in the cloud sector have organizations wondering how the two can work together. Read more »

The smartphone app that can tell you’re depressed before you know it yourself

Analyzing the way you type and scroll can reveal as much as a psychological test. Read more »

Why we can’t quit the QWERTY keyboard

We’ve been using it to type for 144 years. Here’s why it works, and what it would take for us to give it up. Read more »

The US military wants to teach AI some basic common sense

Even the best AI programs still make stupid mistakes. So DARPA is launching a competition to remedy the field’s most glaring flaw. Read more »

Waymo’s cars drive 10 million miles a day in a perilous virtual world

A simulation lets autonomous cars experience situations that are too dangerous to try in reality. Read more »

NASA is using HoloLens AR headsets to build its new spacecraft faster

Lockheed Martin engineers wear the goggles to help them assemble the crew capsule Orion—without having to read thousands of pages of paper instructions. Read more »

There’s no Google Maps for self-driving cars, so this startup is building it

In as little as 24 hours, Mapper will deliver a machine-readable map of any place on earth with public roads. Read more »