The scientist who co-created CRISPR isn’t ruling out engineered babies someday
The day I spoke to Jennifer Doudna was a tough day: the US Patent Office…
Trans men’s eggs have been matured in the lab—and could help them have children
Ovaries contain hundreds of thousands of underdeveloped eggs, held in a kind of suspended animation.…
The US now hosts more child sexual abuse material online than any other country
The US hosts more child sexual abuse content online than any other country in the…
Can the blockchain reduce student loan debt?
Robin Kim graduated from New York University in 2015 with a degree in economics. He…
WeChat wants people to use its video platform. So they did, for digital protests.
On the night of April 22, millions of people in China watched the same video…
This $1.5 billion startup promised to deliver clean fuels as cheap as gas. Experts are deeply skeptical.
Last summer, investors gathered in the parking lot of a converted warehouse in Santa Cruz,…
Chinese NFT platforms don’t want you to trade NFTs anymore
While NFT traders in the US fret over their tax responsibilities for selling big-ticket digital…
The Download: Opting out of the crypto hype, and the gig workers resisting oppressive algorithms
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Flexibility is key when navigating the future of 6G
Mobile providers are accelerating their rollout of the flexible, low-latency, multi-gigabit-per-second communications network known as…
Wealthy cybercriminals are using zero-day hacks more than ever
Organized cybercriminals with money to burn are fueling a spike in the use of powerful,…