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the reporter's notebook of Christopher Mims

Training Bacteria To Grow Consumer Goods


The promise of 3-D printing is that we can generate any arbitrary shape at the push of a button, which sounds pretty impressive until you realize that auto-generating any arbitrary 3-D shape is exactly what living organisms have been up to since the invention of multicellular life.

Filed under: biotech, consumer technology, Fast Company, featured

Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense


When he tired of arguing with climate change skeptics, one programmer wrote a chatbot to do it for him.

Filed under: consumer technology, featured, information technology, Technology Review

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