Inventor of Crispr is skeptical about AI’s impact on medical innovation

I think that innovation is still really in the domain of human beings right now,” Jennifer Doudna, said. “I’m not seeing ...
The New York Times

He Invented the Basque Cheesecake. He Prefers Chocolate.

Santiago Rivera is widely credited with creating the “burnt” cheesecake in the 1980s, though he doesn’t love the spinoffs it has spawned. Decades later, he’s preparing to hand over his kitchen to his ...
The Daily Telegraph

Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Hill, nuclear submarine engineer, inventor and jazz musician

Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Hill, who has died aged 88, was a consummate naval engineer, as well as an inventor, jazz musician and theatre enthusiast. Robert “Bob” Charles Finch Hill was born in Headley, ...
Harvard Business Review

Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century

Meet the people who can coax treasure out of messy, unstructured data. by Thomas H. Davenport and DJ Patil When Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site ...
IEEE

Looking back to electric cars

Abstract: Very early experimental electric cars appeared just after electromagnetism was discovered, in 1820. During the nineteenth century they underwent improvements, staying in advance of internal ...
Wired

The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient

“A Recent Entrance to Paradise” is a pixelated pastoral scene of train tracks running under a moss-flecked bridge. It was, according to its creator’s creator, drawn and named in 2012 by an artificial ...
The Economist

The inventor who fell in love with his AI

This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. This explosion of computational creativity represents, to AI ...
Investopedia

Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF): What It Is and How to Invest

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Betsy began her career in international finance and it has since grown into a ...
Business Insider

9 moonshot ideas that became real-life innovations, from driverless cars to birth-control pills

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped foot on the moon in 1969, they helped to cement the idea of a "moonshot" — a goal or achievement that challenges what we thought was possible. While few ...
The New York Times

Franky Zapata’s ‘Flyboard’ English Channel Flight Failed. He Vowed to Try Again.

LONDON — Last week, the world learned that Franky Zapata could fly, thanks to a dazzling Bastille Day performance on his hoverboard in Paris. On Thursday, as he tried to cross the English Channel, the ...
Nottingham Post

Meet the Notts-based specialist paramedic team who responds to major incidents across the region

A specialist team of paramedics who have dealt with 10,000 of the most serious emergencies in the East Midlands is celebrating 10 years of service. The Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) is a group ...