Two self driving Ubers ran red lights in San Francisco
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While this incident has been put down to human error, allegedly, cyber attacks on fleets of driverless cars could make these sorts of scenes common place unless companies come together to develop new security standards. Ubers self-driving fleet has already run into trouble after...
New gene editing technique switches off cells ability to repair themselves
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When scientists edit DNA sometimes the cells natural repair mechanism undoes the modification, this new technique prevents that from happening and reduces the side effects of genetic modification CRISPR, the revolutionary gene editing tool that’s also been dubbed the “Genesis Engine” because of its...
