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1.

It Costs $30 to Make a DIY EpiPen (www.technologyreview.com)

506 points by Halienja 2016-09-22 | 386 comments

2.

First Human Embryos Edited in U.S (www.technologyreview.com)

444 points by astdb 2017-07-26 | 277 comments

3.

Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster (www.technologyreview.com)

435 points by scrumper 2016-04-20 | 239 comments

4.

All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately (www.technologyreview.com)

435 points by rberger 2012-02-16 | 123 comments

5.

Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? (www.technologyreview.com)

401 points by ozdave 2017-09-29 | 208 comments

6.

Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine (www.technologyreview.com)

399 points by tmandry 2018-07-19 | 153 comments

7.

Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Puzzle Claimed Solved by Special Relativity (www.technologyreview.com)

361 points by dhimes 2011-10-14 | 108 comments

8.

New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human workers (www.technologyreview.com)

319 points by jonbaer 2018-10-03 | 229 comments

9.

Two Infants Treated with Universal Immune Cells Have Their Cancer Vanish (www.technologyreview.com)

318 points by phr4ts 2017-01-26 | 134 comments

10.

White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit (www.technologyreview.com)

318 points by bane 2011-09-24 | 70 comments

11.

AI’s Language Problem (www.technologyreview.com)

309 points by punnerud 2016-08-09 | 235 comments

12.

Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal (www.technologyreview.com)

277 points by hrgeek 2016-10-06 | 126 comments

13.

Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon (www.technologyreview.com)

272 points by lelf 2015-05-06 | 79 comments

14.

Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker (www.technologyreview.com)

271 points by danso 2016-12-07 | 294 comments

15.

Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959) (www.technologyreview.com)

269 points by Dnguyen 2014-10-20 | 49 comments

16.

Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers (www.technologyreview.com)

261 points by mgiannopoulos 2017-02-07 | 151 comments

17.

Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing Society (www.technologyreview.com)

257 points by dtawfik1 2017-10-11 | 216 comments

18.

How to hide from the AI surveillance state with a color printout (www.technologyreview.com)

257 points by hsnewman 2019-04-25 | 134 comments

19.

Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in Meteorite Fragments (www.technologyreview.com)

252 points by uptown 2013-03-11 | 86 comments

20.

A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal” (www.technologyreview.com)

247 points by sethbannon 2018-03-13 | 428 comments

21.

The Great German Energy Experiment (www.technologyreview.com)

243 points by pdelgallego 2012-06-19 | 203 comments

22.

Finding the longest straight line you could sail without hitting land (www.technologyreview.com)

242 points by zeristor 2018-05-01 | 145 comments

23.

Exploring No Man’s Sky, A Computer Game Forged by Algorithms (www.technologyreview.com)

241 points by Libertatea 2014-07-22 | 120 comments

24.

A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at a stroke (www.technologyreview.com)

236 points by bryanrasmussen 2018-11-06 | 96 comments

25.

Antihydrogen Trapped For 1000 Seconds (www.technologyreview.com)

230 points by eduardoflores 2011-05-02 | 105 comments

26.

Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves (www.technologyreview.com)

229 points by ColinWright 2012-10-31 | 72 comments

27.

A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech (www.technologyreview.com)

228 points by jonbaer 2018-12-23 | 83 comments

28.

Baidu Hires Andrew Ng (www.technologyreview.com)

227 points by chriskanan 2014-05-16 | 83 comments

29.

Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics Technique (www.technologyreview.com)

218 points by iuguy 2011-03-31 | 80 comments

30.

Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959) (www.technologyreview.com)

211 points by xtacy 2017-01-04 | 28 comments

31.

Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin (www.technologyreview.com)

208 points by prostoalex 2014-08-15 | 30 comments

32.

Google Unveils Neural Network to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image (www.technologyreview.com)

191 points by uptown 2016-02-25 | 58 comments

33.

CRISPR 2.0 Is Here, and It’s More Precise (www.technologyreview.com)

190 points by nocoder 2017-10-26 | 65 comments

34.

Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense (www.technologyreview.com)

187 points by inmygarage 2010-11-03 | 221 comments

35.

China’s AI Awakening (www.technologyreview.com)

186 points by eaxitect 2017-10-27 | 175 comments

36.

We Need More Alternatives to Facebook (www.technologyreview.com)

185 points by submeta 2017-05-21 | 163 comments

37.

Big Bang Abandoned In New Model of the Universe (www.technologyreview.com)

185 points by jdub 2010-07-27 | 105 comments

38.

Room Temperature Superconductivity Found in Graphite Grains (www.technologyreview.com)

177 points by ZoFreX 2012-09-14 | 68 comments

39.

A Revolutionary Technique That Changed Machine Vision (www.technologyreview.com)

175 points by lelf 2014-09-09 | 66 comments

40.

The way people copy each other's linguistic style reveals their pecking order (www.technologyreview.com)

175 points by pg 2012-01-02 | 43 comments

41.

Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups (www.technologyreview.com)

172 points by czottmann 2014-05-07 | 121 comments

42.

Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio is worried about AI’s future (www.technologyreview.com)

169 points by jonbaer 2018-11-19 | 123 comments

43.

IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does (www.technologyreview.com)

169 points by finisterre 2014-08-07 | 57 comments

44.

Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs (www.technologyreview.com)

168 points by t23 2017-01-04 | 153 comments

45.

US Military Scientists Solve a Fundamental Problem of Viral Marketing (www.technologyreview.com)

164 points by denzil_correa 2013-09-17 | 66 comments

46.

Experiments Show Gravity Is Not an Emergent Phenomenon (www.technologyreview.com)

163 points by raganwald 2011-08-27 | 38 comments

47.

vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance (www.technologyreview.com)

161 points by mkm416 2018-08-21 | 61 comments

48.

Web merchants routinely leak data about Bitcoin purchases (www.technologyreview.com)

158 points by sgoldfed 2017-08-23 | 54 comments

49.

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions (www.technologyreview.com)

155 points by bglusman 2017-10-08 | 87 comments

50.

We Need More Alternatives to Facebook (www.technologyreview.com)

155 points by mathattack 2017-04-16 | 95 comments

51.

The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery (www.technologyreview.com)

154 points by etiam 2018-05-23 | 108 comments

52.

How social networks can create the illusion that something rare is common (www.technologyreview.com)

153 points by nostrademons 2015-09-28 | 33 comments

53.

The Measurement That Would Reveal The Universe As A Computer Simulation (www.technologyreview.com)

153 points by iProject 2012-10-10 | 115 comments

54.

“Social network” of brains lets people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads (www.technologyreview.com)

151 points by rbanffy 2018-10-04 | 56 comments

55.

Jail Looms for Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails (www.technologyreview.com)

148 points by robdoherty2 2012-11-20 | 112 comments

56.

Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone before the year is out (www.technologyreview.com)

147 points by recurser 2017-04-22 | 49 comments

57.

Why We Can't Solve Big Problems (www.technologyreview.com)

147 points by andrewl 2012-10-25 | 120 comments

58.

A Deep Learning Dissenter Thinks He Has a More Powerful AI Approach (www.technologyreview.com)

146 points by espeed 2015-12-17 | 71 comments

59.

The Enduring Legacy of Zork (www.technologyreview.com)

145 points by tellarin 2017-08-22 | 48 comments

60.

Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech is “a dangerous path” (www.technologyreview.com)

144 points by mkm416 2018-10-23 | 242 comments

61.

Time for Internet Engineers to Fight Back Against the “Surveillance Internet” (www.technologyreview.com)

144 points by kshatrea 2013-11-08 | 46 comments

62.

First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking (www.technologyreview.com)

143 points by NonEUCitizen 2011-07-14 | 65 comments

63.

How to Burst the "Filter Bubble" that Protects Us from Opposing Views (www.technologyreview.com)

143 points by sztanko 2013-12-02 | 107 comments

64.

What are we going to do with quantum computers? (www.technologyreview.com)

140 points by hunglee2 2018-02-25 | 132 comments

65.

What Is the Oldest Computer Program Still in Use? (www.technologyreview.com)

138 points by amalantony06 2017-01-29 | 84 comments

66.

Russian Physicists Solve Radio Black-Out Problem for Re-Entering Spacecraft (www.technologyreview.com)

138 points by Anon84 2011-01-05 | 36 comments

67.

The first commercial gene therapy to provide an outright cure (www.technologyreview.com)

135 points by jerryhuang100 2016-05-06 | 37 comments

68.

The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory (www.technologyreview.com)

133 points by Anon84 2012-08-17 | 28 comments

69.

Google’s self-training AI turns coders into machine-learning masters (www.technologyreview.com)

133 points by rbanffy 2018-02-26 | 30 comments

70.

PageRank Algorithm Reveals Soccer Teams' Strategies (www.technologyreview.com)

132 points by Anon84 2012-07-03 | 32 comments

71.

Life as a bug bounty hunter (www.technologyreview.com)

131 points by mkm416 2018-08-23 | 75 comments

72.

Data mining Reddit posts reveals how to ask for a favor and get it (www.technologyreview.com)

131 points by Libertatea 2014-05-24 | 47 comments

73.

Microsoft’s Quantum Mechanics (www.technologyreview.com)

131 points by finisterre 2014-10-10 | 37 comments

74.

16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines (www.technologyreview.com)

130 points by rbanffy 2019-08-21 | 75 comments

75.

A spambot became the second most powerful member of an Italian social network (www.technologyreview.com)

130 points by avyfain 2014-08-05 | 38 comments

76.

Soviet Moon Lander Discovered Water on The Moon in 1976 (www.technologyreview.com)

129 points by Anon84 2012-05-30 | 42 comments

77.

A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry (www.technologyreview.com)

129 points by bpierre 2013-06-18 | 103 comments

78.

Microsoft Announces "Kinect Accelerator" to Turn Hacks into Businesses (www.technologyreview.com)

128 points by wglb 2011-11-25 | 40 comments

79.

The Decline of Wikipedia: As More People Rely on It, Fewer People Create It (www.technologyreview.com)

126 points by uladzislau 2013-10-25 | 138 comments

80.

Evolutionary algorithm outperforms deep-learning machines at video games (www.technologyreview.com)

125 points by hunglee2 2018-07-22 | 46 comments

81.

Neurobiologists Reveal The Wisdom Of The Confident (www.technologyreview.com)

125 points by espeed 2014-07-14 | 34 comments

82.

Greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry (www.technologyreview.com)

124 points by KabuseCha 2019-05-02 | 125 comments

83.

Mathematicians Solve Minimum Sudoku Problem (www.technologyreview.com)

124 points by llambda 2012-01-06 | 33 comments

84.

Doctors have reversed an inherited disorder in utero using a biotech drug (www.technologyreview.com)

123 points by _Microft 2018-04-26 | 28 comments

85.

Antivirus Companies Shouldn’t Have Hidden What They Knew About Regin (www.technologyreview.com)

123 points by aburan28 2014-12-08 | 65 comments

86.

How to Get Wyoming Wind to California, and Cut 80% of U.S. Carbon Emissions (www.technologyreview.com)

123 points by rbanffy 2018-02-24 | 45 comments

87.

A Superconductor That Works at -70 °C (www.technologyreview.com)

122 points by jonbaer 2015-10-26 | 38 comments

88.

23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Study (www.technologyreview.com)

122 points by nkurz 2016-08-02 | 56 comments

89.

What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters (www.technologyreview.com)

121 points by TuxPirate 2011-05-25 | 53 comments

90.

In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold (www.technologyreview.com)

120 points by khmel 2012-11-14 | 53 comments

91.

The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong (www.technologyreview.com)

119 points by jesperht 2018-08-24 | 95 comments

92.

If You Have A Smartphone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move (www.technologyreview.com)

118 points by dhimes 2012-04-20 | 87 comments

93.

Chinese tech firms are throwing out applicants over the age of 30 (www.technologyreview.com)

118 points by monsieurpng 2019-04-09 | 123 comments

94.

Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns (www.technologyreview.com)

118 points by sprucely 2015-11-12 | 22 comments

95.

Who needs democracy when you have data? (www.technologyreview.com)

117 points by raleighm 2018-08-20 | 107 comments

96.

Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959) (www.technologyreview.com)

117 points by ohjeez 2016-09-24 | 6 comments

97.

The Triton malware is murderous and spreading (www.technologyreview.com)

116 points by jchrisa 2019-03-12 | 61 comments

98.

New Chat Thing Convore Is Google Wave Minus the Suck (www.technologyreview.com)

115 points by pg 2011-02-13 | 59 comments

99.

Math Advances Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years (www.technologyreview.com)

112 points by codesuela 2013-08-10 | 81 comments

100.

Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years (www.technologyreview.com)

112 points by mtgx 2013-05-06 | 35 comments

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