by Leroy Hurt | Feb 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via MIT Technology Review: The fact that genome editing worked to create modified monkeys suggests it might also work to create genetically modified humans. Crispr is already used to modify human cells grown in labs, but it has not yet been tested on human embryos or...
by Leroy Hurt | Feb 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via International Business Times: In the fourth quarter of 2013, GDP grew 6.5 percent, and the Philippines remains the fastest-growing economy in Asia after China.… Even though Typhoon Haiyan caused devastating damage and left at least 6,200 people dead, the economy...
by Leroy Hurt | Feb 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: Double allows an unparalleled degree of flexibility when it comes to needing to be places. I loved working from my couch and desk at home while remotely wheeling a robot around the BI office, some ten miles away. I was attending Manhattan...
by Leroy Hurt | Feb 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: Pater believes that as drones become increasingly common, people should have the tools to identify them at a moment’s notice. The ability to recognize a drone by their silhouette, Pater thinks, is much like our ancestors’ ability to...
by Leroy Hurt | Feb 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: it wasn’t difficult at all to come up with 20 brand new trends this year that will dominate headlines over the next decade. It’s not that all of last year’s forces have already dissipated. But new movements have already...
