Past issues

Issue #332 15 October 2021

A shorter issue this week but we have a robot-dog with a gun strapped to its back, shooting for longevity and the stars, the cost of training AI is getting bigger and AI inner misalignment has been proven.

Issue #331 08 October 2021

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!

Issue #330 01 October 2021

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!

Issue #329 24 September 2021

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!

Issue #328 17 September 2021

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

Issue #327 10 September 2021

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!

Issue #326 03 September 2021

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

Issue #325 27 August 2021

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!

Issue #324 20 August 2021

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!

Issue #323 13 August 2021

OpenAI releases beta access to Codex; Xiaomi launches "open-source" CyberDog; Google plans to build superintelligent multipurpose AI; what bioengineering can do in space; and more!

Issue #322 06 August 2021

How Covid-19 poked holes in AI; Amazon announces Genomics CLI; a universal switch for gene therapies; and more!

Issue #321 30 July 2021

The possibility of gene doping; a bipedal robot completes 5K run; an AI for cheating in online shooters; a robot taught to insert USB stick; and more!

Issue #320 23 July 2021

OpenAI disbands its robotics team; DeepMind puts entire human proteome online; how the latest neuroscience research can help create AGI; and more!

Issue #319 16 July 2021

Open source protein-folding AIs; the designer babies are now commercially available; a fully robotic pizzeria in Paris; and intro to AI safety; and more!

Issue #318 09 July 2021

How AI wolfs and sheep caused a massive debate in China; AI designs its own chips; killer robots are here; Spot dances to BTS song; and more!

Issue #317 02 July 2021

US military is going to test anti-ageing pill next year; voice actors are concerned about AI; biohackers working on cheap insulin; Pepper the robot is in trouble; and more!

Issue #316 25 June 2021

The quest to create brain-computer interfaces; the initiative to unify robots; rethinking biology as machine metaphor; an AI that turns brushstrokes into landscapes; and more!

Issue #315 18 June 2021

The efforts to make text-based AIs less racist; a call to stop lethal autonomous weapons; Boston Dynamics' celebrates one year of Spot roaming in the wild; bacterias turning plastic into vanillin; and more!

Issue #314 11 June 2021

MIT is building its own humanoid robot; DARPA is funding "living pharmacies"; open-source clone of GPT-3; unmanned drone refuelled a manned fighter jet; and more!

Issue #313 04 June 2021

China's massive multi-modal AI; humans could live up to 150 years; the first case of an autonomous drone fighting humans; DNA as a data storage; and more!

Issue #312 28 May 2021

Gene therapy partially restores a bling man's sight; the limit on lab-grown human embryos to be relaxed; Microsoft translates text into code; Germany says 'ja' for self-driving cars; and more!

Issue #311 21 May 2021

Can machines control our brains; a reality check for AI; Waymo car gets confused and tries to run away; why robots are animals, not humans; and more!

Issue #310 14 May 2021

Using young blood to reverse ageing; Pentagon inches towards letting AI control weapons; a new promising gene-editing tool; a brain implant translates thoughts of writing into text; and more!

Issue #309 07 May 2021

AI that generates code; laser-equipped weed killing farming robot; how could we augment ourselves in the future; and more!

Issue #308 30 April 2021

Self-driving cars to be allowed on UK roads this year; human augmentation is now necessary; AI chip big as your head; NYPD returns its robot dog; and more!

Issue #307 23 April 2021

Post-human species; firefighters with exoskeletons; UK government intervenes in Nvidia-Arm deal; famous geneticist sells his DNA as NFT; and more!

Issue #306 16 April 2021

First human trial of a wireless high-bandwidth BCI; a creation of part human, part monkey embryos; new legislation seeks to limit the use of AI in Europe; and more!

Issue #305 09 April 2021

A monkey with Neuralink; GPT-3 generates over 4.5B words per day; Intel's hate speech filter for gamers; French army tests Spot; and more!

Issue #304 02 April 2021

Boston Dynamics new robot and sneak-peek into their workshop; the current state of artificial wombs; how AI can help run governments; and more!

Issue #303 26 March 2021

Methuselarity by 2035 and why will it be free; scientists made early human embryos from skin cells; why adversarial networks are a security threat to robots; and more!

Issue #302 19 March 2021

How to defend yourself against Spot robots; there is a 50% chance that we will reach longevity escape velocity by 2036; how could we bring someone back to life; and more!

Issue #301 12 March 2021

A call for the Neurological Bill of Rights; the AI alignment problem; drones vs moths; and more!

Issue #300 05 March 2021

Prosthetic arms are not as cool as it seems; Google's project to enhance hearing; a call to ignore killer robot bans; bring back your dead with an AI; patients seem to be ok with robot doctors; and more!

Issue #299 26 February 2021

Spot gets an arm and gets armed; a roadmap to Human Body 2.0; is Google's AI research about to implode; and more!

Issue #298 19 February 2021

Meet the MetaHumans; Hyundai introduces two new robots; how teaching robots dance can make them better; a skeptical look at hype in biology; and more!

Issue #297 12 February 2021

Deepfaking a human genome; cobalt-based quantum brain; drone swarms are getting too fast for humans; and more!

Issue #296 05 February 2021

Updates from Neuralink; Spot gets new accessories; how AI will revolutionise games; a spinach that sends emails; and more!

Issue #295 29 January 2021

AI resurrects a singer for a commercial; lab-grown wood; Spot is getting new accessories; GMOs might be permitted in the UK; and more!

Issue #294 22 January 2021

A brain implant to fight depression; robots of the CES; a neural network that learns when it should not be trusted; and more!

Issue #293 15 January 2021

How to teach a robot to dance; another misbehaving AI chatbot removed from the internet; robots made from ice; AI accelerated by light; and more!

Issue #292 08 January 2021

State of the art in anti-ageing research; OpenAI's newest AI generates images from text; a look back to 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge; and more!

Issue #291 01 January 2021

Dancing Boston Dynamics' robots; from bionic cows to bionic humans; a surprising connection between AI and human brains; and more!

Issue #290 25 December 2020

DeepMind's new AI get closer to general-purpose AI; Microsoft's patent to create chatbots from anyone, including dead; a four-legged robot with wheels; and more!

Issue #289 18 December 2020

What's next for Boston Dynamics; the AI girlfriend seducing lonely men in China; can we upload our minds; is DNA really like language; and more!

Issue #288 11 December 2020

Hyundai to buy Boston Dynamics; mind-controlled beer pong; how to start a robot revolution; AI that makes pyjamas safe for work; and more!

Issue #287 04 December 2020

DeepMind solves protein folding problem; highlights from Cybathlon; 3D engine in DNA; AI Incidents Database; and more!

Issue #286 27 November 2020

The ethics of rebooting the dead; how biased AIs really are; BCI headset for AR/VR; why we need a robot registry; DNA synthesis generates true random numbers; and more!

Issue #285 20 November 2020

Are we ready for true human diversity; China has caught up to US in AI; how to preserve the privacy of genomic data; FBI hires 140 robots for their new facility; and more!

Issue #284 13 November 2020

Pope prays for AI and robots; Hyundai in talks to buy Boston Dynamics; living concrete; real-life Venom Snake's bionic arm; and more!

Issue #283 06 November 2020

Virtual influencers are taking over; US city bans facial surveillance; Spot is getting its arm next year; slaughter-free meat farms on Mars; and more!

Issue #282 30 October 2020

Spot explores Chernobyl; Yann LeCun on GPT-3; Apple learns the limits of robotics in manufacturing; and more!

Issue #281 23 October 2020

DIY exoskeleton and prosthetic hand; the dangerous rise of military AI; Agility Robotics starts selling their humanoid robots; and more!

Issue #280 16 October 2020

Can robots make us happier; how AI is accelerating battery development; open-source robotic leg; military cyber dogs; and more!

Issue #279 09 October 2020

CRISPR wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; NVIDIA is building UK's fastest supercomputer; Toyota presents robotic butlers; why robots in care homes are inhuman; and more!

Issue #278 02 October 2020

Ring's new flying home surveillance camera; how biotech can help with climate change; AI democratisation in the era of GPT-3; and more!

Issue #277 25 September 2020

Microsoft gets exclusive licensing access to GPT-3; a robot beats world-class curling teams; a long-discussed legal question involving self-driving cars is answered; and more!

Issue #276 18 September 2020

AI helps make chess beautiful again; a fighter pilot will dogfight an AI-controlled jet in 2024; a new report outlines path to human germline editing; and more!

Issue #275 11 September 2020

A racing mech; unfair algorithms; memes and deepfakes; The Guardian publishes AI-generated article; and more!

Issue #274 04 September 2020

Update on Neuralink's progress; how AI impacted Go community; OpenAI API preliminary pricing; DIY vaccines for COVID-19; and more!

Issue #273 28 August 2020

AI wins against human pilot in a simulated dogfight; meet Peter the Human Cyborg; Waymo started testing driverless trucks; the rise of living robots and brain-like computers; and more!

Issue #272 21 August 2020

Bomb-sniffing cyborg locust; a new type of batteries for robots; how a prosthetic leg is made; and more!

Issue #271 14 August 2020

AI writes an essay about human intelligence; MKBHD meets Spot; jet fighter pilot is taking an AI pilot; how roboticists work from home; and more!

Issue #270 07 August 2020

GPT-3 vs human brain; turning retired F-16s into drones; AI is also struggling to adjust to 2020; how Excel messes up with geneticist; and more!

Issue #269 31 July 2020

Awesome GPT-3; the genetically engineered astronaut; a real-life Gundam takes its first step; and more!

Issue #268 24 July 2020

A conference for virtual beings about virtual beings; AI learns to read from lips; two interestingly looking robots; and more!

Issue #267 17 July 2020

Deepfaked student was used to attack activists; China’s massive effort to collect its people’s DNA concerns scientists; how an AI graphic designer convinced clients it was human; and more!

Issue #266 10 July 2020

How to share the benefits of AI; Florida enacts DNA privacy law; a bionic bird; why it is still early days for AI; and more!

Issue #265 03 July 2020

How to start a robot revolution; MIT deletes database that taught AI to be racists and sexist; an in-depth look at GPT-3; and more!

Issue #264 26 June 2020

How facial recognition led to false arrest of a black man; an AI that makes realistic human faces; biohacker's quest to make a DIY Covid-19 vaccine; and more!

Issue #263 19 June 2020

We can finally buy Boston Dynamics' Spot; a failed gene-editing experiment on human embryos; how life after AI could look like; and more!

Issue #262 12 June 2020

OpenAI releases its first commercial product; DeepMind teaches AI to cooperate; what good can come out of the pandemic for bioscience; and more!

Issue #261 05 June 2020

Microsoft replaces journalists with robots; OpenAI publishes GPT-3; the most terrifying thought experiment; and more!

Issue #260 29 May 2020

Japan plans to have cyborgs and robotic avatars by 2050; China's latest new anchor is an AI; NVIDIA teaches AI to make Pac-Man; US Air Force to bring AI-powered jet drones in 2023; and more!

Issue #259 22 May 2020

AI efficiency outpaces Moore's Law; Microsoft builds 5th most powerful computer for AI; the rogue experiments; dead robots; and more!

Issue #258 15 May 2020

NVIDIA's new data centre GPU; the bitter lesson and the future of computation; an AI that can cry; and more!

Issue #257 08 May 2020

OpenAIs' new AI makes music; how to become a centaur; how realistic are fictional robots; life as a digital being; and more!

Issue #256 01 May 2020

How to reverse ageing; one-man's dream to turn a chicken into a dinosaur with genetic engineering; how the pandemic brings the delivery robots closer; and more!

Issue #255 24 April 2020

Spot goes to hospitals; Zoox shares 1 hour fully autonomous ride around San Francisco; and more!

Issue #254 17 April 2020

AI gets copyrights; the deep fakes arms race; anticipating automation and utopia; the connection between physics and deep learning; and more!

Issue #253 10 April 2020

Adam Savage shows how Spot works; Sophia the Robot answers if AI is an existential threat to humans; how rejuvenation technology could help fight against COVID-19; and more!

Issue #252 03 April 2020

DeepMind's new AI masters all 57 Atari 2600 games; a startup builds AI chips with real neurons; researchers "delete" memory from rats with CRISPR; and more!

Issue #251 27 March 2020

DeepMind releases a documentary movie about AlphaGo; how robots are used to fight COVID-19; a musical robot that has a song on Spotify; and more!

Issue #250 20 March 2020

What mind uploading has to do with the meaning of life; the complete guide to magnet implants; Sophia the robot tells what humans can learn from AI; coronavirus shuts down self-driving taxi services; and more!

Issue #249 13 March 2020

A case for radically enhancing humanity; a blood-thirsty robot; how cheap DNA sequencing could accelerate genomics research; and more!

Issue #248 06 March 2020

AI got involved in the fight against coronavirus; Boston Dynamics' robot works in a warehouse; a photo book of transhumanists; and more!

Issue #247 28 February 2020

OpenAI performs surgery on a neural network; DARPA wants gamers' brainwaves to train military robots; Pentagon releases principles for AI in warfare; and more!

Issue #246 21 February 2020

Hacking prosthesis to control a synthesiser; the messy story behind OpenAI; how AlphaStar became a StarCraft II Grandmaster; and more!

Issue #245 14 February 2020

AI restores old videos; a new implant allows a blind woman to play video games; why transhumanism is the desirable next step in human evolution; and more!

Issue #244 07 February 2020

Elon Musk teases Neuralink's "awesome" advancement; William Gibson's thoughts about "future fatigue"; Spot Mini to replace human on a construction site; Japan builds a giant Gundam robot; and more!

Issue #243 31 January 2020

Boston Dynamics gets a new CEO and Adam Savage gets Spot Mini; CRISPR could fry all cancer using newly found T-Cell; AI epidemiologist was first to send warnings of the coronavirus; and more!

Issue #242 24 January 2020

EU plans a ban on facial recognition tech in public; India is sending a humanoid robot into space; DeepMind's AI learns to fold proteins; why the public needs to be educated about anti-ageing research; and more!

Issue #241 17 January 2020

Biorobots made from stem cells; is another AI winter coming; worm's life extended by 500%; how to measure AI; and more!

Issue #240 10 January 2020

US limits exports of AI software; drones replace fireworks show; a table-waiting-cat-robot; bionic humans aren't science fiction; and more!

Issue #239 03 January 2020

He Jiankui sentenced to jail for three years; apparently, there is a third genetically modified baby; robots learn to explain their actions; AI reads x-rays better than humans; and more!

Issue #238 27 December 2019

How "ethical AI" was created; self-driving DeLorean learns to drift; how to live forever; and more!

Issue #237 20 December 2019

Reaching escape velocity in longevity; AI Index Report 2019; how robots can become blacksmiths; and more!

Issue #236 13 December 2019

Human vs AI in drone racing; the future of nanotechnology; NVIDIA makes 3D birds from 2D images; and more!

Issue #235 06 December 2019

He Jiankui’s unpublished manuscripts describing the creation of the first gene-edited babies; China wants to make deepfakes illegal; how much data Knightscope robots collect; engineers building their own bionic legs; and more!

Issue #234 29 November 2019

The Olympic games for cyborgs; Boston Dynamics' Spot joins the police; the next software revolution is bio; and more!

Issue #233 22 November 2019

Designer babies and CRISPR's unwanted anniversary; how can AI aliens look like; goodbye, Cortana; how to recognise AI snake oil; and more!

Issue #232 15 November 2019

Meet the transhumanists; AlphaStar vs a Grand Master player; robots enjoying autumn leaves; the first Gattaca-like baby tests are here; and more!

Issue #231 08 November 2019

Amazon opens new robotics research centre; OpenAI fully releases their powerful text generator; the cost of CRISPR; and more!

Issue #230 01 November 2019

AlphaStar gets better at StarCraft II than 99.8% of players; AI learns to smell; is CRISPR the next antibiotic; how to fool military AI; and more!

Issue #229 25 October 2019

Is another CRISPR-Baby of the way; the controversy around OpenAI's Rubik's Cube solving robot; a new powerful gene-editing tool; and more!

Issue #228 18 October 2019

OpenAI's robot solves Rubick's Cube one-handed; why AI thinks like a corporation; robots in space and in Walmart; open-source bio 3d printer; and more!

Issue #227 11 October 2019

BBC talks about transhumanism; paralysed man walks using mind-controlled exoskeleton; tech startup that makes drone-killing drones; US bans Chinese AI companies; and more!

Issue #226 04 October 2019

One biohacker's journey towards immortality; on AI community in Africa; Pope Francis warns about the wrong usage of AI; a robot with a light-based nervous system; and more!

Issue #225 27 September 2019

You can order now Spot Mini; Atlas does parkour; is telepathy scientifically possible; "perfectly real" deepfakes are just 6-12 months away; and more!

Issue #224 20 September 2019

OpenAI learns to play Hide and Seek; 18-year old builds a mind-controlled prosthetic; Russian space robot is sent back home; how a 15th-century manuscript keeps confounding AI; and more!

Issue #223 13 September 2019

The tech to make people live forever; how to make robots not lost in underground tunnels; American truck drivers want to ban autonomous trucks; and more!

Issue #222 06 September 2019

Biohackers implanted a tiny computer in the leg; Paperclip Maximizer explained; a conversation between Elon Musk and Jack Ma; and more!

Issue #221 30 August 2019

DARPA sends robots underground; nanoparticles will give you night vision; why AI needs a body; Chinese firm clones a cat; and more!

Issue #220 23 August 2019

DeepMind's co-founder placed on leave; China's plan to become CRISPR superpower; OpenAI releases more details on GPT-2; and more!

Issue #219 16 August 2019

Crafty robots; AI looks for cancer; UPS uses driverless trucks; Chinese police robots; and more

Issue #218 09 August 2019

China's AI ed-tech companies; DIY exoskeleton and prosthetic Nerf gun; what is anti-CRISPR; a robotic tail for humans; and more

Issue #217 02 August 2019

A closer look at mind uploading; will AI kill us; can AI be recognised as inventor; first CRISPR study inside the body to start in US; the dawn of designer proteins; and more!

Issue #215 19 July 2019

Elon Musk presents Neuralink; turning son into a cyborg; how synbio could wipe out humanity and how to stop it; restoring vision in humans and mice; and more!

Issue #216 19 July 2019

Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI; should robots look like humans; why an AI race between US and China is a bad idea; and more!

Issue #214 12 July 2019

Plans for more CRISPR-modified babies; AlphaStar is getting unleashed to play StarCraft 2 against humans; AI vs humans in poker - 1:0; robotic pets; and more!

Issue #213 05 July 2019

An introduction into biohacking; Waymo gets a green light in California; a robotic arm that tastes with bacterias; coming out as a transhuman; and more!

Issue #212 28 June 2019

Biohackers trying to upgrade human body; why tech companies are snatching neuroscientists studying animal brains; the ongoing death of Jibo and its impact; Waymo teams up with Renault and Nissan

Issue #211 21 June 2019

How deepfakes can be used in espionage; Boston Dynamics-like robot takes revenge in a fan film; robots and pizza; why robotics needs Amazon; and more!

Issue #210 14 June 2019

DJI shows a battle robot; bionic showgirl shakes up cabaret; AI picks names for cats; and more!

Issue #209 07 June 2019

DeepMind has beaten humans in Quake III; Amazon reveals the new delivery drone; why we should play god; Robert Downey Jr. wants to clean the world with robots; and more!

Issue #208 31 May 2019

An open source four-legged robot; AGI has been delayed; self-driving delivery trucks and delivery robots; the race to build life from scratch; and more!

Issue #207 24 May 2019

Celebrity biohacker is under investigation; a four-legged robot pulls an airplane; ectogenesis can be possible in a decade; AI fakes Joe Rogen voice; Sam Altman's message to potential OpenAI investors; and more!

Issue #206 17 May 2019

San Francisco bans facial recognition; a very insightful interview with Geoffrey Hilton; Amazon gets one step closer to fully automated warehouses; and more!

Issue #205 10 May 2019

A discussion about longevity; an AI that makes puns; looking into monkey's brain with AI; would cyborgs make better astronauts; and more!

Issue #204 02 May 2019

How to become invisible to AI; Anki is shutting down; what is the meaning of life and what about transhumanism; drone delivers an organ for a transplant in the US; how to make CRISPR 50x more accurate; and more!

Issue #203 26 April 2019

How to live longer; OpenAI crushes humans in Dota 2; the challenges of robotic farmers; why extended intelligence is the future; and more!

Issue #202 19 April 2019

OpenAI beats pro gamers on a livestream; Boston Dynamics drops new video; how viable are giant robots in combat; AI invented a new sport; why futurism needs to get real; and more!

Issue #201 12 April 2019

Google's AI ethics board is falling apart; Boston Dynamics is going into warehouses; modified monkeys with extra intelligence points

Issue #200 05 April 2019

Finnish inmates train AIs; how AI is enhancing art; longevity as the biggest investment opportunity of all time; a robot proves it is not a robot; and more!

Issue #199 29 March 2019

Boston Dynamics shows a new robot; how can we grow organs in the lab; trying to understand AI using psychology; the age of genetic wonder; and more!

Issue #198 22 March 2019

This week - the story of DeepMind and its relationship with Google; our emotional relationship with robots; CRISPR-edited food comes to our plates; and more!

Issue #197 15 March 2019

OpenAI shifts from nonprofit to ‘capped-profit’ to attract capital; AI is entering art galleries; drones in all shapes and forms; someone at Valve is working on brain-computer interfaces; and more!

Issue #196 08 March 2019

The story of blood transfusing startup promising to stop ageing; one robot learned how to do backflips while another conquered the stairs; mice with infrared vision; the biggest AI risks; and more!

Issue #195 01 March 2019

Boeing and Kalashnikov are showing military drones; the problem with China's CRISPR experiment; what the most valuable AI startups are working on; eight-letter DNA; and more!

Issue #194 22 February 2019

OpenAI made a text generator so good it's considered too dangerous to release; the first female AI new anchor debuts in China; how we can improve deep learning; and more!

Issue #193 15 February 2019

US launches American AI Initiative; a guy builds himself a prosthetic arm from Legos; Google and Microsoft warn about AI doing stupid things; UK plans to deploy drone swarm squadrons; and more!

Issue #192 09 February 2019

People seem not to be scared by robots that much; a robot learns about itself; tiny robots; China's use of AI worries the "godfather" of deep learning; and more!

Issue #191 01 February 2019

A man that plans to live to 180; AlphaStar follow-ups; how Rwanda's delivery drone works; genetically modified eggs with the anti-cancer drug; and more!

Issue #190 25 January 2019

DeepMind's AI beats top pro StarCraft II players; Amazon rolls out delivery robots; Newark Airport was shut down due to a drone seen around the airport

Issue #189 18 January 2019

A new method to understand AIs; a couple of robots that learned new tricks; the first human-pig hybrid has been created; US Navy would like to have more autonomous warships

Issue #188 11 January 2019

UK vs drones; could we ever eat sunlight; World Bank says fears of a robot takeover are "unfounded"; Hyundai's walking car; and more!

Issue #187 04 January 2019

A cafe in Tokyo staffed with robot-waiters controlled by paralyzed people; Prince Charles doesn't like the idea of people becoming ‘part human, part machine’

Issue #186 28 December 2018

The aftermath of drone sightings at Gatwick Airport; can we gain new senses; training AI in Minecraft; on building trustworthy AI

Issue #185 21 December 2018

Rogue drones shut down an airport in the UK; predictions for 2050; the possibilities of man-made DNA; designing the third thumb;

Issue #184 14 December 2018

People don't like Waymo's cars; designer bugs; AlphaZero asserts its dominance in playing games; prosthetics; and more!

Issue #183 07 December 2018

Meet the biohackers; CRISPR babies follow-ups; DeepMind's AI folds proteins; Waymo launches taxi services in Arizona; a cyborg plant; and more!

Issue #182 30 November 2018

This week was mostly dominated by the news of the birth of the first genetically modified humans in China and how the world reacted. Other than that - you can add arms to SpotMini to make a robotic centaur; Uber's AI cracked games other AIs were failing at; how gene sequencing can predict your chances for success; hacking the world with digital biology; and more!

Issue #181 23 November 2018

Mark Hamill's special message for kids with limb differences; one of the fathers of AI is worried about its future; designer babies, bioborgs and baselines; and more!

Issue #180 16 November 2018

AI news anchor makes a debut; news on recent developments in researching military robots; alarm over talks to implant UK employees with microchips; and more!

Issue #179 09 November 2018

An update on AI Winter; why we have an emotional connection to robots; an AI modelled after a worm's brain parks a robotic car; AI and politics; and more!

Issue #178 02 November 2018

The science of ageing; AI generated portrait sold for $432,500; open source robotic cat; the results of Moral Machine experiment; designer babies are already here; and more!

Issue #177 26 October 2018

How Sweden is becoming a nation of cyborgs; DeepMind imagines animals; xenobiology; an interview with veteran data scientist on AI, deep learning, fintech; and more!

Issue #176 19 October 2018

Boston Dynamics' Spot inspects a building and then dances; Pepper the robot speak in UK Parliament; biologists grew a human retina in a dish; how genetic engineering affect space exploration

Issue #175 12 October 2018

Boston Dynamics' Atlas does parkour; connecting human brains to play Tetris; can an AI be a person under the law; Japan set to allow gene editing in human embryos

Issue #174 05 October 2018

Rethink Robotics shuts down; a robot installs a drywall; new robotics challenge from DARPA; cyborgs fighting for their rights through art; DIY sixth sense; the dangers of DNA testing; and more!

Issue #173 28 September 2018

A cyborg artist; extreme biohacking; growing mini-brains in the lab; can Boston Dynamics sell their robots; why AIs have a problem with the real world and why do they learn to smell; and more!

Issue #172 21 September 2018

Dalai Lama meets bionic girl; the case for radically enhancing humanity; do we really need BCIs?; building safe AI; how China aims to dominate robotics; and more!

Issue #171 14 September 2018

The case for engineering ethical humans; brain-computer interfaces; DARPA invests $2B in AI; humans to drone race against AI; and more!

Issue #170 07 September 2018

Apple’s self-driving car had an accident; no consensus on killer robots; first genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Africa; how we will benefit from sequences our genes; is AI the end of understanding in science

Issue #169 31 August 2018

Gartner's Hype Cycle 2018; OpenAI reflects on DotA 2 championships; exoskeletons are going mainstream; the security problem in robotics; and more!

Issue #168 24 August 2018

OpenAI faces the best players in Dota 2 championships; a drone saves swimmers in Spain; Kalashnikov showcases a mech robot;

Issue #167 17 August 2018

Cloning dogs; rejuvenation is an industry now; how will the jobs of the future look like; DeepMind gets good at detecting eye diseases; and more!

Issue #166 10 August 2018

OpenAI beats DotA; drone attack in Venezuela; Anki's new robot; exoskeletons at Ford factories; robots can manipulate our emotions; and more!

Issue #165 03 August 2018

Mind-controlled third arm; cutting through AutoML hype; how Japanese see robots; dexterous robotic hands; and more!

Issue #164 28 July 2018

DARPA wants AI to explain itself; Boston Dynamics prepares for mass production of robo-dogs; mini-heart in a jar; and more!

Issue #163 20 July 2018

The debate on the future of human enhancement; the ethics of AI in warfare; tech leaders pledge not to build killer robots; and more!

Issue #162 13 July 2018

Adding more senses to human body; MIT's robot Cheetah learned new tricks; a neural network coded using DNA; exoskeletons; and more!

Issue #161 06 July 2018

None

Issue #160 29 June 2018

OpenAI bots play Dota 2; AI is as good as doctors; a documentary about bionics; end of the line for ASIMO; and more!

Issue #159 22 June 2018

How Hugh Herr plans to connect robots to humans; biohacker won a legal battle to remain a cyborg; and more!

Issue #158 15 June 2018

A Bitcoin millionaire builds a working Dr Octopus suit; can a robot be divine; AI sees through walls and predicts World Cup winner; and more!

Issue #157 08 June 2018

Google to end partnerships with Pentagon and releases its AI principles; Norman, the psychopathic AI; building computers with living neurons; and more!

Issue #156 01 June 2018

Report into Uber's fatal crash is out; exoskeleton for the elderly; Microsoft wants to fight AI bias with AI; Eric Schmidt says Elon Musk is wrong about AI; clean meat updates; and more!

Issue #155 25 May 2018

The life of Aaron Traywick; Uber ends self-driving car program in Arizona; Google's quest to make you a cyborg; Microsoft's AI can also make phone calls; and more!

Issue #154 18 May 2018

Spot Mini will be available next year; growing an ear on forearm; sending a robot for a graduation ceremony; safety in DIY biology movement; and more!

Issue #153 11 May 2018

Google AI makes phone calls for you; is the future transhuman; Boston Dynamics robot gets some fresh air; extending lifespan of dogs before humans; and more!

Issue #152 04 May 2018

None

Issue #151 27 April 2018

Amazon plans to release a home robot; Open Bionic releases a new prosthetic arm; the fable of the dragon-tyrant, animated; real-life Transformer; and more!

Issue #150 20 April 2018

A robot assembled a chair from IKEA; how far are we from bionic humans; robotbees on Mars; UK report urges action to combat AI bias; and more!

Issue #149 13 April 2018

France's plan to become an AI powerhouse; Europe wants to grant robots right but the experts say "don't do it"; Bill Gates' latter on genetic engineering; UN tries to define a "killer robot"; and more!

Issue #148 06 April 2018

Radio-controlled cyborg mouse; Estonia wants to sequence DNA of its citizens; people don't like the idea of AI weapons; and more about AI, robots and merging humans with machines!

Issue #147 30 March 2018

New robots from Festo; more about ethics and regulations around self-driving cars; a teen who built a prosthetic arm for his dad; and more!

Issue #146 23 March 2018

Self-driving Uber car kills a pedestrian; Pentagon asks Silicon Valley giants for help; robot-bees patent by Walmart; and more!

Issue #145 16 March 2018

Burger-flipping robot got fired; a case for human-chimp; a bionic girl comes to Xbox as an avatar; a robot-cat learns to walk; a mind-uploading startup that needs to kill you first; and more!

Issue #144 09 March 2018

Alexa laughs; build your own Boston Dynamics robot; UK prepares for driverless cars; AI tricks human to see things in the pictures; and more!

Issue #143 02 March 2018

Drones on the catwalk; Josiah Zayner regrets his stunts; China invests more in AI than US; lawyers vs AI - 0:1; and more!

Issue #142 23 February 2018

AI as a weapon; hard life as a robot at Boston Dynamics; new applications of CRISPR; BBC document on the quest for immortality; quantum AI papers from Google; and more!

Issue #141 16 February 2018

BodyHacking Con; cryonics myths; Boston Dynamics new robot; AI psychology; Intel's drone show in South Korea; Disney robots; and more!

Issue #140 09 February 2018

AI myths; artificial worm balancing a pole; who gets access to advanced reproductive technologies; one lucky guy gets an advanced mind-controlled robotic arm; biopunks; and more!

Issue #139 02 February 2018

Self-destructing GMOs; robotic swans in Singapore; how AI coded its AI child; AI recreates Leia's scene from Rogue One; and more!

Issue #138 26 January 2018

Cloned monkeys; a response to a response to Slaughterbots; China has already gene-edited 86 people using CRISPR; how fast is AI progressing; and more!

Issue #137 19 January 2018

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Issue #136 12 January 2018

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Issue #135 05 January 2018

Sweden is not afraid of robots; brain implants; CIA's robotic dragonfly; predictions for 2018 and 2050; and more!

Issue #134 29 December 2017

Biohackers genetically modifying themselves; response to Slaughterbots; first CRISPR clinical trial could begin in 2018; transhumanism and religions; sweating robots doing pushups and situps; and more!

Issue #133 22 December 2017

A closer look at AlphaZero; how to write "programs" in bacterias; the gene patent question; and more!

Issue #132 15 December 2017

Google's AI made a better AI than humans; a security robot was used to kick a homeless out; AI makes fake porn; and more!

Issue #131 08 December 2017

AlphaZero masters chess in a couple of hours; DARPA funds gene drives research; AI makes black metal; and more!

Issue #130 01 December 2017

Dancing with a robot; the impossibility of intelligence explosion; a story of a guy who tests gene engineering on himself; and more!

Issue #129 24 November 2017

Atlas does backflips; a man injects himself an untested gene therapy; making AI explain themselves; fire alarm for AGI; banning the killer robots; and more!

Issue #128 17 November 2017

Boston Dynamics shows a new robot; a campaign against killer robots; people are starting to be afraid of biohackers; and more!

Issue #127 10 November 2017

Waymo put self-driving cars on the roads in Phoenix; genetically modified apples hit stores in US; how to cure ageing; and more!

Issue #126 03 November 2017

Sophia the robot gets Saudi Arabia citizenship; a new neural network from the godfather of modern AI; why biological immortality is impossible; and more!

Issue #125 27 October 2017

CRISPR 2.0; a vest that adds new senses; construction robots; why cryonics makes sense; the dark side of the Singularity; and more!

Issue #124 20 October 2017

The giant robot battle; real-life cyborgs; DeepMind's new AI is better than AlphaGo; China’s AI Awakening; and more!

Issue #123 16 October 2017

Facebook's bot loses its first battle in StarCraft; the giant robots duel is finally happening; self-driving mail trucks; and more!

Issue #122 06 October 2017

DeepMind is getting serious about ethics; AI meets religion; beauty in transhuman future; how to turn your skin cells into stem cells; and more!

Issue #121 29 September 2017

Bionic Miss America contestant; Bill Gates, Garry Kasparov and Richard Dawkins on AI; on lab-grown meat; biohackers; and more!

Issue #120 22 September 2017

Connecting our brains to machines; the aftermath of the gaydar AI; a burger-flipping robot; and more!

Issue #119 15 September 2017

DIY cyborgs; robot 'conductor'; biocomputers and bioethics; Facebook's AI learns how to react to human emotions; and more!

Issue #118 08 September 2017

Vladimir Putin on AI; the ethics of human augmentation; how to regulate AI; robots tax could become a reality in San Francisco; on gene therapies; and more!

Issue #117 01 September 2017

Self-driving lorries to be tested in the UK; Ford's autonomous car delivers Domino's pizza; bionic pop singer; hacking DNA to hack a computer; and more!

Issue #116 25 August 2017

A call to ban killer robots; a song made by AI; how AI can enhance us; some perspective on OpenAI's Dota2 bot; and more!

Issue #115 18 August 2017

OpenAI conquered Dota 2; Alexa controlled exoskeleton; DIY pharmaceuticals; Elon being Elon; and more!

Issue #114 11 August 2017

Korea takes first step to introduce 'robot tax'; first genetically engineered salmon sold in Canada; a robot falls off the stage; and more!

Issue #113 04 August 2017

A lot on AI; hopes and fears of artificial general intelligence; robots from Boston Dynamics on TED; Roborace; and more!

Issue #112 28 July 2017

Elon Musk vs the world; an immortality as a chatbot; UK to bring in drone registration; first human embryos edited in US; and more!

Issue #111 20 July 2017

AI creates fake Obama; Elon says AI is the greatest risk we face as a civilization; a security robot threw itself into a fountain; and more!

Issue #110 14 July 2017

DeepMind teaches AI to walk; storing GIF in a living bacteria; neuroprosthetics' security concerns; AI that generates cats; and more!

Issue #109 07 July 2017

The ethics of enhancing humans; why having a chip in a brain is inevitable and who is working on it right now; and more!

Issue #108 30 June 2017

Cyborgs; sneak peek into Facebook bots language; Amazon's bee-hives for drones; biological teleportation machine; a DIY AI to sort LEGO pieces; and more!

Issue #107 23 June 2017

Facebook's AI created a new language; Tom Scott and blocking people from our lives; a robot that teaches humans how to dance; and more!

Issue #106 16 June 2017

Ethics of augmenting humans; new AIs trying to be better than Deepmind; neural implants and brainjacking; and more!

Issue #105 10 June 2017

Softbank acquires Boston Dynamics and Schaft; Andrej Karpathy explains what AlphaGo really is; yet another creepy GAN generator; and more!

Issue #104 02 June 2017

What's next for AlphaGo; when will human-level AI arrive, according to experts; dragonfly turned into a cyborg drone, and more!

Issue #103 26 May 2017

AlphaGo beats the world best Go player; Google has an AI to make AIs; the problem of consciousness; 3D printing organs; should robot pay taxes, and more!

Issue #102 19 May 2017

OpenAI announced a big research breakthrough in machine learning, a visit to MIT robotics lab, CRISPR, augmenting humans and more!

Issue #101 12 May 2017

AI and consciousness, mind-reading AI, how VR can create a better humanity and more!

Issue #100 06 May 2017

Cyborgs, discussions about gene editing and designer babies, cryonics and brain-computer interfaces and more!

Issue #99 28 April 2017

a lamb in an artificial womb, cyborgs, Neuralink explained, another AI-powered time waster by Google and more!

Issue #98 21 April 2017

Zuckerberg says Facebook is working on brain interface, the god in the machine, Russian gunslinging robot and more!

Issue #97 14 April 2017

How close are we to melding mind and machine, AlphaGo's new challenge, AI figures out to read sentiment on its own, drone delivery in Switzerland and more!

Issue #96 07 April 2017

Employees getting implanted with microchips, Google's new machine learning chips, rejuvenating mice, don't fear the AI and more!

Issue #95 31 March 2017

Elon Musk founds Neuralink, on the quest to cure ageing and death, Uber has more problems with the self-driving cars, growing human heart cells on a spinach and more!

Issue #94 24 March 2017

Jeff Bezos in a giant mech robot, upgrading human body, evolving AIs, Apple and augmented reality, and more!

Issue #93 17 March 2017

On transhumanism and augmenting human body, bots learn to talk to each other in their own language, bionic ants, lab-grown chicken meat and more!

Issue #92 10 March 2017

Meet a cyborg actress and archer, some articles about AI safety and the meaning of AI in general, traditional robots and one biological robot and more!

Issue #91 03 March 2017

Boston Dynamics' new wheeled robot. On editing human genome. Roborace shows its autonomous racing car. Do robots deserve human rights, and more!

Issue #90 24 February 2017

Who is allowed to use CRISPR, Chinese robots and AIs, hacking human brain, AI draws things with cats, while other steals code and more!

Issue #89 17 February 2017

We must become cyborgs, says Elon Musk. AI learns to be aggressive while another AI learns from less data than deep learning AIs and more!

Issue #88 10 February 2017

Intel's drone show at Super Bowl. How does the AI that learned how to play poker work. German government is warning biohackers and more!

Issue #87 03 February 2017

Boston Dynamics shows a new robot. A bunch of great minds talk about superintelligence. A robotic coffee shop in San Francisco and more!

Issue #86 27 January 2017

Elon Musk tweets and makes promises. Kristen Steward co-authors AI research paper. The first human-pig chimera. How to hack human body and more!

Issue #85 20 January 2017

Facebook and mind reading. Moral machine. A philosophical thought that will doom you. AI that learns how to make AI. The problems of drone industry.

Issue #84 13 January 2017

Google unleashed AlphaGo into the internet, two Google Homes talked to each other, EU is discussing robot laws, a guy tests gene therapy on himself and more!

Issue #83 06 January 2017

Jason Silva talks about transhumanism, AI is taking the world and we should embrace it, the future of genetic engineering by George Church and more!

Issue #82 30 December 2016

Brain-to-brain communication, Uber moves its fleet of self-driving cars to Arizona, a French woman wants to marry a robot, the ethics of biotechnology

Issue #81 23 December 2016

Mark Zuckerberg shows his Jarvis. Hacking AI systems. Korean mech and a human flying drone. Holographic AI servant from Japan and more!

Issue #80 16 December 2016

Uber puts self-driving cars on roads in San Francisco. Google's self-driving car division gets a new name. Amazon drone delivers the first package in the UK

Issue #79 09 December 2016

Merging brains with machines. Extending life span and its impact on society. OpenAI and DeepMind release playgrounds for AIs. Microsoft shows a new chatbot.

Issue #78 02 December 2016

Beautiful titanium prosthesis. Fei Fei Li and Demis Hassabis talk about AI and AIs that make songs. A desktop industrial robot. Cyborg beetles and more!

Issue #77 25 November 2016

How is it to be a cyborg? AI experiments by Google. Google Translate develops its own internal language. The state of AI. Who controls the robots and more!

Issue #76 18 November 2016

Terminally ill teen won historic ruling to preserve body. Flying an airplane using only a brain. CRISPR gene-editing tested in a person for the first time

Issue #75 11 November 2016

Deepmind gets Starcraft to play with. Upgrading your body and connecting the brain with the computers. The lip-reading scene from HAL is now a reality.

Issue #74 04 November 2016

Bionic artist and bionic humans. Google created AIs that can communicate secretly and how to understand AIs. Human-like robots from China and self-assembling origami robots.

Issue #73 28 October 2016

A massive investment in the world’s first neural prosthetic for human intelligence enhancement, Chinese version of DARPA's Grand Challenge, MIT is ready for Halloween with a horror AI, the self-driving truck delivered a precious cargo of 50 000 beers and more!