A Community of 50 3D Printed Homes Is Under Construction in Mexico . Last year, the first permitted 3D printed house in the US went up in Austin, Texas. The house was a buzz-generating proof of concept, a wacky example of the cool things tech can do. At t

Silicon Valley's China Paradox: What It Is, and How It Will Shape the Future of Tech . Silicon Valley has long been the world leader in tech innovation. It’s the cradle of startup culture, a hub for venture capital, and the home of dozens of global tech t

Will Cultured Bacon Be Delicious? A Dutch Startup Is Developing the First Lab-Grown Pork . The food chain has always worked roughly like this: sunlight feeds plants. Plants feed insects. Insects and plants feed animals. Plants and animals feed people. The

Why AI Will Be the Best Tool for Extending Our Longevity . Dmitry Kaminskiy speaks as though he were trying to unload everything he knows about the science and economics of longevity—from senolytics research that seeks to stop aging cells from spewing inf

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 7) . ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Former Go Champion Beaten by DeepMind Retires After Declaring AI Invincible James Vincent | The Verge “‘With the debut of AI in Go games, I’ve realiz

First-Ever Artificial Neuron Could Let Us Repair Brain Injuries with Silicon . The merging of man and machine is a staple of sci-fi and at the heart of the philosophy of transhumanism. But interfacing our brains with computers has proven incredibly hard,

How We'll Buy Things in 2030: Smart Stores and Personalized Experiences . How do you buy your stuff? Do you get in your car, or type with your fingers? E-commerce is surging while brick-and-mortar sales fall. What could possibly save malls and shopping

Why Your 5G Phone Connection Could Mean Lousy Weather Forecasts . Will getting full bars on your 5G connection mean getting caught out by sudden weather changes? The question may strike you as hypothetical, nonsensical even, but it is at the core of ong

How a New Smart Skin Patch Uses Vibrations to Track Your Health . Wearables are so common these days we rarely give them second thought. Yet packed into FitBits and Apple Watches are multiple tiny, sensitive sensors that monitor your steps, heart rate, sl

Alphabet Is Developing a Robot to Take Over Boring Everyday Tasks . Robots excel at carrying out specialized tasks in controlled environments, but put them in your average office and they’d be lost. Alphabet wants to change that by developing what they ca