This goes way beyond CRISPR-Cas9. Remarkable stuff! “David R. Liu shares a breakthrough: his lab’s development of base editors that can rewrite DNA.” | learn more
“How do we know whether our counterpart is serious or just taking a position to try to outmaneuver us? And how do we protect the relationship while we find out? The answer is simple—use this negotiation technique.” | learn more
The news here is a big deal, but shouldn’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention to Amazon’s relentless pressure. My favorite part might be this Yahoo Finance headline: “Amazon ‘Sneezes’ One-Day Delivery, And A Chill Envelops Retail, Logistics Landscape” […]
This company is a leader in the movement to help consumers (patients?) understand something (probably very little, but something) about the makeup of their microbiome. Insurers maybe don’t like paying for it, though. “Special agents from the Federal Bureau of […]
From the Ethereum boosters over at Consensys: “Ethereum is the most common blockchain that companies are exploring and integrating into their existing operations. Overall, twenty-four of the fifty companies listed are using the Ethereum blockchain.” | learn more
Might this be a truly useful use case? “Tracer has launched a new blockchain-based ‘smart ticket’ that helps prevent ticket scalpers from profiting from ticket resales.” | learn more
This time, from the NY Attorney General. “The suit has also revealed that Bitfinex purportedly sent $850 million to a Panama-based company, lost access to the funds as a result of a government seizure, and had to dip into Tether’s […]
Do you want to know how the machine learning that powers language predictions works? This is as down-to-earth of an explanation as I’ve ever seen. And now I understand it (sort of)! | learn more
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb As with the first Taleb book I read, Skin in the Game, I had to work extra hard while reading this to divorce the author’s wisdom from his style. That wisdom is, in one man’s opinion, […]
Author: Ben Schott I hadn’t heard of P.G. Wodehouse and his famed characters Jeeves and Wooster until I read this book. It was recommended to me, and I figured it was time for a detour back to fiction, so I […]