This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 25) . NEUROSCIENCE The Most Complete Brain Map Ever Is Here: A Fly’s ‘Connectome’ Gregory Barber | Wired “Researchers like Rubin believe a physical blueprint of the brain could be

Microsoft’s Moonshot Plan to Reverse Its Lifetime CO2 Emissions by 2050 . The alarming headlines about Australia’s bush fires over the last couple weeks have heightened the global outcry over climate change, and companies, NGOs, and governments are taking

Five of the Biggest Central Banks Unite to Explore Launching Their Own Digital Currencies . In the beginning, there was Satoshi. It’s been a little over a decade since the pseudonymous founder of Bitcoin introduced the blockchain-based cryptocurrency that

Five Major Central Banks Unite to Explore Launching Their Own Digital Currencies . In the beginning, there was Satoshi. It’s been a little over a decade since the pseudonymous founder of Bitcoin introduced the blockchain-based cryptocurrency that launched

Not Bot, Not Beast: Scientists Create First Ever Living, Programmable Organism . A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots.” This week, a research team of roboticists and scientist

World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes . Renewable energy statistics just keep topping each other. Solar power is getting cheaper. Battery storage capacity is getting better. And wind farms are getting bigger. 2019 saw the world

Precision Fermentation: What It Is, and How It Could Make Farming Obsolete . Concerns around the environmental impact of modern farming are causing us to reassess our relationship with food. But are claims that lab-grown food will replace agriculture in t

Mojo Vision’s Augmented Reality Contact Lenses Kick off a Race to AR in Your Eye . The digital world has been creeping closer to your face. Was a time when a laptop was about as personal as you got with a computer. Then came smartphones, and a few years l

Mojo Vision’s Augmented Reality Contact Lenses Kick off a Race to AR on Your Eye . The digital world has been creeping closer to your face. Was a time when a laptop was about as personal as you got with a computer. Then came smartphones, and a few years l

Mojo Vision’s Augmented Reality Contact Lenses Kick off a Race to AR on Your Eye . The digital world has been creeping closer to your face. Was a time when a laptop was about as personal as you got with a computer. Then came smartphones, and a few years l