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By Jon D. Markman On June 14, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In the near future, scientists will engineer food that grows faster and does not spoil.
This is the promise of CRISPR/Cas 9, a game-changing gene-editing tool.
Bioengineered food could end...
By Jon D. Markman On June 9, 201702:00 PM Eastern
It looks like a giant vacuum cleaner and it’s set to disrupt the fruit-harvesting business.
Like most startups, Abundant Robotics saw a problem it thought could be solved with technology.
So...
By Jon D. Markman On May 24, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Elon Musk is obsessed with speed. From rockets to hyperloops to electric cars, fast is kind of his thing.
Now he wants to apply the same aesthetic to manufacturing.
Critics argue it’s another...
By Jon D. Markman On May 19, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Computers are moving way past simply, well, computing. Now, they are starting to truly see.
That means, they are starting to put images into context. And this represents a huge step forward for...
By Jon D. Markman On February 21, 201707:30 AM Eastern
You probably haven’t heard about precision medicine. That’s fine, it wasn’t even possible ten years ago.
But now we’re entering the new Gilded Age — and suddenly researchers are using it to...
By Jon D. Markman On February 18, 201707:30 AM Eastern
They have done it again. Boston Dynamics just released another terrifying video of a bipedal robot.
Somebody really needs to tell the industrial robot designer the way to public hearts and...
By Jon D. Markman On January 31, 201707:30 AM Eastern
A few weeks ago, the battery in my daughter’s MacBook Pro laptop went on the fritz. It wouldn’t charge; she was chained to a wall plug. Among other inconveniences, there was no way for her to take...
By Jon D. Markman On January 3, 201707:30 AM Eastern
For many sports fans, it’s unthinkable. But young people have stopped watching the games live. They would rather watch them when it’s convenient. And that, pardon the pun, is a game-changer.
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By Jon D. Markman On December 13, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Supercomputers and “big data” analytics are among the high-end tools that the best hedge fund managers depend upon today. No organization uses them better than the creative wizards at Renaissance...
By Jon D. Markman On October 4, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Marketing has changed. Now it’s all about real-time analytics, artificial intelligence and feeding both with massive amounts of data. To succeed you need all three.
Twitter (TWTR) shares...