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Artificial intelligence might make you think of a humanoid robot or increase your anxiety about the security of your job. But AI comes in many…
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Automating decisions, by definition, takes humans out of the equation. With that comes the risk that ethics are removed as well. Artificial intelligence (AI) is…
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When I was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island in the Azores archipelago), my mind drifted to the…
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People are biased – that’s just a fact. The problem is that these biases have crept into artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. Harrisburg University…
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What can we learn from the Earth’s 3.8 billion years of experimentation? Besides the great innovation work emerging from biomimicry, I like professor Gregory Unruh’s…
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3D printing is taking another leap forward with bioprinting: literally printing three-dimensional living objects. One of the pioneers, Inventia Life Science, is printing living cells…
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Wouldn’t it be great if there was a system that could sustainably generate fuels, replenish our damaged soils, reclaim water and grow nutritious food, all…
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What will it take to turn our buildings from sterile mausoleums into living ecosystems? Can we reinvent buildings to be less like economic factories and…
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Three quarters of workers think 2020 has been the most stressful year ever and 85% find that mental health issues at work spill over into…
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We know about blue-collar, white-collar and even green-collar workers. Now we see the rise of new-collar professionals. There are exciting careers emerging that support Industry…
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It’s 145 years since Alexander Graham Bell spoke his famous words via telephone: ‘Mr Watson, come here, I want you’. Since then, the world has…
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Every breakthrough technology has its dark side. Thomas Midgley invented leaded fuel and CFCs, which brought improvements in fuel efficiency and refrigeration, but ended up…
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When New Scientist declared that CRISPR – a technology to edit genes – ‘will likely change the world’, they were not wrong. Tinkering with nature…
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Knowledge is power – and data is the bedrock. With high resolution satellite imaging, anyone anywhere can track land use changes in near-real time. The…
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A new breakthrough in turning seawater into fresh water could finally make the process cheap and sustainable. The world’s first land-based distillation desalination plant dates…
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The digital divide of the future is not what you think – or where. Until now, we have been focused on access to the internet…
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Technology is disruptive, but can it also help us to cope with disruption? Our lives are already disrupted by cyberattacks, climate change, forced migration, health…
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What does the D in DNA stand for? For biologists, it’s ‘deoxyribo’ (you knew that, right?), but for computer scientists, increasingly it means ‘data’. Big…
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Drones will soon be as ubiquitous as airplanes. But first we need to know that they are really useful and totally safe. A recent test…
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Is Earth unique? Cosmology researchers from Washington State University have identified 24 planets that are Earth-like, some of which may be super-habitable. There’s just one…
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Thomas Edison was born in 1847 and became a serial innovator and iconic industrial genius. Besides the ubiquitous light bulb, Edison devised inventions for motion…
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Bletchley Park, the World War II British Intelligence site, is famous for cracking Germany’s Enigma code, led by the genius Alan Turing. What made the…
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Necessity is the mother of invention and the COVID-19 crisis is proof: manufacturers like Tesla, Ford and GE retrofitting factories to produce ventilators, universities rapidly…
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The rapid development of COVID vaccines was made possible by genomics, the science of genetic sequencing. The leading tech company behind the gene decoding equipment…
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We are spectacularly bad at predicting technology disruptions. We repeatedly underestimate the power of hockey stick growth curves that converge and flip systems. For example…
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Imagine the Apollo mission to the moon without ‘mission control’. It would have been a catastrophic failure. Yet most hospitals are run without a data…
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Researchers at University College London have set a new world record for internet speed – 178 terabits per second. How fast is that? You could…
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There are reasons to be cautious about artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning. They can codify prejudice, manipulate behaviour and take away decision making…
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More than 3 billion people still don’t have access to the internet – but X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, thinks it may have a connectivity solution.…
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You commit a crime and get arrested. Would you rather your case for bail is heard by a judge or decided by an AI algorithm?…
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