Past issues

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!

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

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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

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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!

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