How a tiny mutant worm is helping find a cure for a rare form of cancer The Williamson worm The defective gene in the Williamson family altered the structure of a protein calledSDHB. SDHB has a very unusual function that needs an introductory explanation from science fiction. In theBack to the Futurefilms, Doc Brown’s time-travelling DeLorean sports car is powered by a water-fueled “flux-capacitor” that can generate vast power. Now imagine that human life itself depends on the biological equivalent of such a device that fuels our internal power generation system....

Words I have been hearing a lot in recent times in social media: acquiring, owning, recruiting and retaining. I’ve heard these words before from brands, agencies and people within the industry. They are not the same social media buzz words from 18 months ago like: community, engaging and organic. So what has changed? Lots of money pouring into the industry and the arrival of large scale advertising. I suppose this is inevitable when you see how much money brands are pumping into Facebook advertising that the mentality would shift....

Did you knowNeural is taking the stage this fall? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of AI during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! Every new technology brings with it questions of ethics and unintended consequences. It’s right to ask these questions, but it’s also important to remember that humans are completely at the helm with how these technologies are implemented and when and where they are restrained....

The typical Australian will change careersfive to seven timesduring their professional lifetime, by some estimates. And this is likely to increase as new technologies automate labor, production is moved abroad, and economic crises unfold. Jobs disappearing is not a new phenomenon – have you seen an elevator operator recently? – but the pace of change is picking up, threatening to leave large numbers of workers unemployed and unemployable. New technologies also create new jobs, but the skills they require do not always match the old jobs....

How AI could spot your weaknesses and influence your choices How AI can learn to influence human behavior A team of researchers atCSIRO’s Data61, the data and digital arm of Australia’s national science agency, devised a systematic method of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in the ways people make choices, using a kind of AI system called a recurrent neural network and deep reinforcement-learning. To test their model they carried out three experiments in which human participants played games against a computer....