Author: JohnVlahos

• Coffee Under Threat
  Starbucks’s efforts to head off climate change and its impact on coffee bend to business realities.

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• Gene Therapy’s First Out-and-Out Cure Is Here
  A gene therapy for an inherited immune disease completes a 27-year journey.

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• The Nauseating Disappointment of Oculus Rift
  Oculus’s VR headset can be thrilling, but will you buy it if some experiences make you sick and it’s hard to use for more than 20 minutes?

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• The World’s Most Expensive Medicine Is a Bust
  The first gene therapy approved in the Western world costs $1 million and has been used just once. The doctor who tried it says the price is “absolutely too high.”

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• A Secret Tool to Catch the Next VW-Style Emissions Cheat
  New software spots anomalies in modified or hacked cars.

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• When Smartphones Become Too Addictive, Stylish Dumb Phones Offer a Respite
  Feeling distracted and exhausted by constant connectivity? Maybe you need one more gadget.

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• Robot Spiders Weave Products from Plastic in a New Spin on 3-D Printing
  Siemens is testing teams of creepy-crawly 3-D-printing robots. Their descendants might make manufacturing lines far more efficient.

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• Twitter’s Artificial Intelligence Knows What’s Happening in Live Video Clips
  Twitter has been developing technology that automatically recognizes what’s happening in live video, a step toward sophisticated recommendations.

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• Your Future Hip Replacement May Come Out of a Printer
  Customized, printed orthopedic implants could be the future. In the meantime, the new manufacturing method is helping companies cut costs.

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• China Is Building a Robot Army of Model Workers
  Can China reboot its manufacturing industry—and the global economy—by replacing millions of workers with machines?

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