This week — a brain implant helps cure depression and other future implants; an inconvenient truth about AI; CRISPR family tree holds a multitude of untapped tools; and more!

More Than A Human

This woman’s brain implant zaps her with electricity when it senses she’s getting depressed

Sarah, a 36-year old woman suffering from…

This week — AI and music; DARPA SubT challenge results are in; how biology becomes engineering; Amazon shows a roaming robot for home; DeepMind predicts when and where it is going to rain; and more!

More Than A Human

MIT Establishes New Initiative to Meld Humans and Machines

A newly formed MIT research center…

This week — NASA checks if Spot can go to explore Mars; GitHub’s Copilot generates code with bugs; bioengineering meets gaming PCs; how bringing dinosaurs back could look like; lab-grown coffee; and more!

More Than A Human

Tiny Neural Implant Could Give Spinal Injury Patients Control Over Their Own Limbs Again

A team of…

This week — a plan to resurrect woolly mammoths; a new armed robot from Israel; how human-machine teaming could look like; engineering living materials; and more!

Aubrey De Grey

SENS Foundation has published the Executive Summary of the investigation into allegations of inappropriate conduct against Dr Aubrey de Grey, the co-founder and the…

This week — Jeff Bezos funds a longevity company; new mini-CRISPR; Intel to launch robotaxis in Germany next year; the future of health and fitness; and more!

More Than A Human

Meet Altos Labs, Silicon Valley’s latest wild bet on living forever

Funded by Jeff Bezos and Yuri Miller (who made his fortune on…

This week — made for work robot from Agility Robotics; CAD for genomes; mycelium-based packaging is coming; what is Biological Singularity; and more!

More Than A Human

Alphabet X’s exosuit

X, Alphabet’s research and development division, is famous for its moonshot projects and for their secrecy. But sometimes the company gives a little sneak…

This week — what is going on with Aubrey de Grey; a critique of Tesla Bot; behind the scenes at Boston Dynamics; 3d-bioprinted Wagyu beef; what happened to IBM Watson; and more!

Aubrey de Grey

About two weeks ago, Celine Halioua and Laura Deming shared stories of their encounters with Aubrey de Grey…

This week — Tesla is building a humanoid robot; Atlas shows new parkour skills; how AI landed a man in jail with scant evidence; how AI is being used in courts; programmable traps for viruses; and more!

Artificial Intelligence

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence

Associated Press shares…