Author: JohnVlahos

• Bring Your Feet into Virtual Reality
  Tactonic is making pressure-sensing mats that can tell how you move your toes, which could make for more immersive VR exploration.

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• In First Human Test of Optogenetics, Doctors Aim to Restore Sight to the Blind
  A breakthrough technology from neuroscience might allow blind people to see a monochromatic world.

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• The Missing Link of Artificial Intelligence
  We don’t know how to make software that learns without explicit instruction—but we need to if dreams of humanlike AI are to come true.

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• Inside the Mosquito Factory That Could Stop Dengue and Zika
  Genetically modified mosquitoes seem to stop the spread of disease—but will Brazil, or anyone else, pay for them?

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• Technical Roadblock Might Shatter Bitcoin Dreams
  A study of the system that powers Bitcoin concludes that it cannot become widely used without a major redesign.

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• Apprentice Work
  What is the potential of machine art, and can it truly be described as creative or imaginative?

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• Review: What It’s Like to Have Super Hearing Abilities
  With Here earbuds from Doppler Labs, you’re in control of your aural environment, and it’s pretty sweet.

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• China Could Have a Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor Next Year
  Two high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors under construction in Shandong will make up the first commercial-scale plant of its type in the world.

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• Why the Policy Fight over Encryption Is at an Impasse
  The next U.S. government looks set to inherit the ongoing fight over whether the government should rein in encryption.

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• Unraveling the Mysterious Function of the Microbiome
  A new class of experimental therapies is emerging from the study of how the community of microörganisms in your body contributes to disease.

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