China Leads Race To Treat Cancer By Editing Genes With CRISPR
February 21st, 2018
Shaorong Deng gets an experimental treatment for cancer of the esophagus that uses his own immune system cells. They have been genetically modified with the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR.
“China is starting to pull ahead of other parts of the world — maybe for the time — in regards to biomedicine,” says Hallam Stevens, an anthropologist at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who studies Chinese bioscience. “They’ve been really investing heavily in it over the last couple of decades and it’s starting to pay off in a big way.”
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Imagining The Singularity: What Happens When Computers Transcend Us?
February 8th, 2018
As computers and artificial intelligence grow in power and capability, it seems ever more likely that we’re approaching “the singularity”: the point where machine intelligence exceeds human intelligence. Could this be the dawn of a technological paradise? Or it could trigger humanity’s doom?
CBC Radio – Featuring Nick Bostrom, Robin Hanson, Chris Eliasmith, Doina Precup, Madeline Ashby, and James McGrath.
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AT&T And Bayer Bet On Blockchain To Tame Digital Advertising
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Major brands like AT&T and Bayer are on a crusade to bring transparency back to the digital media supply chain – and are hoping the blockchain-based solutions they’re testing can be an answer. “Who specifically are those tech providers [in the supply chain] and how much of a fee are they assessing to my working… Continue reading »
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Marketers Ignore Retention And Loyalty At Their Peril
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“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Marc Kiven, founder and chief strategy officer of Signal. CEOs know that the most valuable customers are those they already have. Unfortunately, most marketing campaigns are still oriented toward acquiring new customers… Continue reading »
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Google’s Browser Changes Highlight The Need For Better Video Strategies
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“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Field Garthwaite, CEO and co-founder at IRIS TV. In addition to Facebook’s latest changes to the news feed, the important changes taking place in Google Chrome, the world’s most popular browser, are forcing… Continue reading »
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Amazon Is Taking Over the Stock Market, Too
Three technology titans have powered nearly half of the S&P 500’s advance this year, a worrying sign for investors expecting a strengthening economy to lift shares of manufacturers, oil companies and other firms whose fortunes typically improve with growth.
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Roku Ad Biz Skyrockets; Pandora Makes A Programmatic Promise
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. OTT Hypergrowth Roku’s ad business is growing fast, representing about three-quarters of its total platform revenue in 2017. In its Q4 earnings, the company said 2017 platform revenue grew 115% to $225 million, meaning Roku made roughly $168 million in ad revenue last year.… Continue reading »
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The Rundown: Google distances itself from ‘platforms’
In this week’s Rundown: Google distances itself from “platforms,” Snapchat and Twitter woo publishers and Amazon lags in India.
What’s in a name?
As Facebook gets blamed for everything from polarizing America to helping Donald Trump’s election, it’s no accident that Google is distancing itself from the social network. One way is how it’s referred to. Recently, Google execs have insisted to anyone who will listen that Google is not to be called a platform. They’d rather it be a “technology company” or “just Google.” There’s a fair point there that key differences exist among the big tech platforms; Facebook is a walled garden and built around social interactions, while Google is about indexing the world’s information. Both make their money from advertising. But the subtext is that Facebook is taking a beating from just about everyone right now, and Google wants to be seen as one of the good guys. Just don’t call it a media company. — Lucia Moses
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