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Sunday, December 17, 2023

This week's roundup: Here's a sneak peek at what made our 2024 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Vertex will pay tens of millions to license a controversial CRISPR patent. This new system can teach a robot a simple household task within 20 minutes. And more.

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Here's a sneak peek at what made our 2024 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies

Here's a sneak peek at what made our 2024 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies

by Amy Nordrum

We'll share the rest of the list next month, but recently unveiled one of the items at EmTech MIT.

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Vertex will pay tens of millions to license a controversial CRISPR patent

Vertex will pay tens of millions to license a controversial CRISPR patent

by Antonio Regalado

The company will pay rival Editas Medicine and the Broad Institute so that it can sell its breakthrough gene-editing treatment for sickle-cell disease.

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5 things we didn't put on our 2024 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies

5 things we didn't put on our 2024 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies

by Amy Nordrum

Every year, we publish a new list of technologies we think matter most right now. Here's what didn't make the cut.

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Human brain cells hooked up to a chip can do speech recognition

Human brain cells hooked up to a chip can do speech recognition

by Abdullahi Tsanni

Clusters of brain cells grown in the lab have shown potential as a new type of hybrid bio-computer.

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This new system can teach a robot a simple household task within 20 minutes

This new system can teach a robot a simple household task within 20 minutes

by Rhiannon Williams

The Dobb-E domestic robotics system was trained in real people's homes and could help solve the field's data problem.

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