Companies and governments are gaining new powers to follow people across the internet and around the world, and even to peer into their genomes. The benefits of such advances have been apparent for years; the costs — in anonymity, even autonomy — are now becoming clearer. New York Times
M.M.T., as it’s known, is attracting a conspicuous number of fans in an unexpected place: Wall Street. Money managers, chief executives and business analysts maintain that the approach offers several important and overlooked insights, and far from finding it fanciful or deranged. New York Times
We asked Gates to choose this year’s list of inventions that will change the world for the better. MIT Technology Review
Machines are more than ever controlled by software, not humans. Occasionally it goes fatally wrong. New York Times
When news broke late last year that Chinese scientist He Jiankui might have created genetically-edited twins, he quickly drew the condemnation of scientists globally. An investigation, published by the Boston-based health and medicine-focused news outlet STAT, suggests three government institutions, including the country’s science ministry, may have funded He’s research. QUARTZ
More and more security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms, and some are fundamental to the way they were built. MIT Technology Review
Wind, solar and storage are on the cusp of collaborating to provide near carbon-free energy at cost equal to the cheapest fossil fuels, according to MIT chemist and former CIA director John Deutch. Forbes
Two European entrepreneurs want to remove carbon from the air at prices cheap enough to matter. New York Times
It’s too soon to call a peak on traditional vehicles, but the potential for overall growth is in question. And just how much of that growth will be electric? Bloomberg
At a location where once pure oxygen was produced, an outstanding new area was developed which offers on ten hectares space for around 1,500 residents and up to 3,000 workplaces. Suurstoffi Energy Design Holzer Kobler Architekturen
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