by EdTechMate | Feb 27, 2019 | MIT Tech Review, News & Insights
Introduction: The advancements in cellular agriculture and lab-grown meat have the potential to revolutionize the way we produce and consume meat. However, there are still many challenges and potential shortfalls that need to be addressed before large-scale...
by EdTechMate | Feb 26, 2019 | MIT Tech Review, News & Insights
Introduction: The Growing Concerns Surrounding Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic in recent years, with its rapid advancements and potential impact on society. However, futurist Amy Webb’s new book, The Big Nine: How the...
by EdTechMate | Feb 21, 2019 | MIT Tech Review, News & Insights
Overview and Key Takeaways: The recent birth of genetically edited twin girls in China has sparked controversy and raised concerns about the potential impact of manipulating genes for intelligence and cognition. The twins, Lulu and Nana, were born with altered genes...
by EdTechMate | Feb 20, 2019 | MIT Tech Review, News & Insights
Executive Summary and Main Points: The Israel-based organization SpaceIL is set to launch their lunar lander, Beresheet, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in April 2019. This follows the ending of the Google and X Prize competition to land a spacecraft on the moon, which...
by EdTechMate | Feb 16, 2019 | MIT Tech Review, News & Insights
Executive Summary and Main Points The nonprofit research firm OpenAI released a new language model capable of generating convincing and human-like passages of prose. This breakthrough was driven by feeding the algorithm massive amounts of training data, a technique...
by EdTechMate | Feb 15, 2019 | MIT Tech Review, News & Insights
Field Drug discovery Material design Drug discovery Location San Francisco Cambridge, Massachusetts Toronto Capital raised2016–2019 $22,500,000 $12,500,000 $15,600,000 Investors include The Engine, Boston University, the Sloan Foundation, investors from the US and...
