It has been some 3 and a half years since the incredibly successful Glowing Plant Kickstarter campaign. At 484.013 USD the by far  largest synthetic biology Kickstarter campaign of all time promised to  create auto bio-luminescent capable at glowing in the dark without the addition of extra chemical...

The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around since long before the flashing lights and semi-conductor electronics of modern computers.  In ancient times certain inanimate objects, such as towering mountains of stone, or the winding paths of river beds, were bestowed with a mystical pr...

Most readers should be aware of the Moore`s law and the role it played in the rise of the semiconductor industry. The law is essentially the Intel business model allowing long-term planning for both the companies on the supply chain and the potential customers alike. The results are the exponential...

Couple of months back Google owned Deep Mind designed a machine called AlphaGo able to beat the world`s best Go player. Machines beating humans in various games such as backgammon or chess is nothing new, this particular success however was something entirely different. In comparison to chess t...

Chances are you have already heard the term exponential organization. It was introduced in 2014 by Salim Ismail, Michael S. Malone and Yuri van Geest in their book ‚Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)‘.

As th...

Theranos is certainly one of the most fascinating  Silicon Valley startups. When it first emerged in the mainstream media in 2014 for a brief moment it looked like we are witnessing the next Facebook-like success story. A startup founded by a sole female entrepreneur after dropping out of...

Do you remember the Gattaca? In the 1990's SciFi thriller set in the not-too-distant future  most people are geneticallyengineered prior to an in-vitro procedure ensuring the child will have the best possible start in life. The movie has done remarkably well in predicting actual futur...

"Well, I have to go to the skull. I don't know."

2016 is the year of AI. Deep learning algorithms are rapidly being deployed in numerous areas ranging from playing Go to scientific research. Is the movie industry about to be disrupted as well? Well, not really, at least not yet...

Last week Ars premie...

Recently we wrote about deep learning and its potential to revolutionize virtually every industry. One startup thinks that it can apply it to scientific research itself putting technological progress on an even faster development path. Meet ARIS.AI, the virtual assistant designed to scan through the...

We recently mentioned the world's first blockchain application in trade finance. Given the size of the industry and the huge potential for fraud it seemed logical to go into a bit more details on the actual solution.

In December 2015 Standard Chartered and DBS announced that they have successfully co...