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Patrick Hsu’s Bridge RNA System Crosses into Full-Blown Genetic Engineering By JL Zhang | 20 Aug, 2026
The dream kindled by CRISPR and fed by base editing takes a big step forward with Hsu’s method for programming both the destination and the genetic cargo to be delivered. The first generation of gene editing gave scientists a revolutionary ability to locate a sequence of DNA and cut it. Base editing refined that power by allowing certain individual genetic letters to be chemically converted into other letters without completely severing the chromosome.
Dyna Robotics Chases Efficiency with Non-Humanoid Robots By JL Zhang | 17 Aug, 2026
The trio of Lindon Gao, York Yang and Jason Ma think the arrival of a true robotics future will be faster by focusing on efficient handling of tasks rather than on human-like features. Dyna Robotics probably isn't one of the robotics startups you've been reading about.
China's Battery Giants Are Ramping Up Sodium-Ion Batteries But Not for EVs By JL Zhang | 11 Aug, 2026
The key advantages sodium-ion batteries have over lithium-ion don't include the one that matters most for EVs. For a technology that spent five decades as a laboratory curiosity, sodium-ion batteries are suddenly everywhere in China's industrial planning. For EV intenders this raises the question: will this change my options in the near future. Let's start with a clear picture of who's doing what with the sodium-ion battery. Model of CATL headquarters.
How Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi Got the Jump on Making Your First Domestic Robot By JL Zhang | 06 Aug, 2026
Sunday Robotics used a clever training system to efficiently programm robots to use their hands like humans to handle the most repetitive tasks of daily life. The most difficult place to put a useful robot may not be an automobile factory, warehouse or battlefield. It may be your kitchen after dinner. A factory robot performs the same tightly defined motion thousands of times in a carefully controlled setting.
Chinese Humanoid Robot Ban to Exact a High Cost from American Businesses and Consumers By JL Zhang | 04 Aug, 2026
The robots being developed by Chinese robotics firm Unitree, among others, could have helped offset labor shortages for US industry and provided time-saving convenience for busy consumers. A visitor high-fives a humanoid robot at the Keenon Robotics booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, July 18, 2026.
Naveen Rao May Have Found a Smarter Way to Use Silicon By JL Zhang | 03 Aug, 2026
Unconventional AI eschews conventional silicon chips for a way to tap into silicon's more interesting properties. Inside every digital processor, transistors are physical devices with continuously varying voltages, currents, leakage, noise and nonlinear behavior. Yet engineers generally force that rich electrical activity into two dependable states: zero or one. That simplification made modern computing possible. It also may be an increasingly wasteful way to run artificial intelligence.
What IBM's Latest Quantum Advantage Claim Means and Doesn't Mean for a Quantum Computing ETA By JL Zhang | 31 Jul, 2026
The horse race to groom quantum chips for industrially useful processors took a meaningful step forward, but is likely to continue for the next several years. This gold-plated 'chandelier' chills IBM's quantum processor to near absolute zero and routes the microwave signals that control its qubits. The actual Heron chip is attached to the bottom of the chandelier.
Anduril Wants the Next War to Be Fought Like a VR Game By JL Zhang | 29 Jul, 2026
An impatient Costa Mesa startup is pulling the Defense Department toward an age of distributed warfare. Anduril displays its unmanned combat aircraft "Fury" at the Farnborough International Airshow, in Hampshire, Britain, July 20, 2026. REUTERS/Cassell Bryan-Low Palmer Luckey first made his name by helping people escape into artificial worlds. His Oculus Rift headset placed users inside computer-generated spaces that felt almost physical.
Why AI's Epic Memory Shortage Will Be Felt in Your Chatbot Sessions and Your eWallet for Years to Come By JL Zhang | 28 Jul, 2026
SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron may enjoy an even bigger AI profit surge than Nvidia and TSMC. Nvidia’s graphics processors have become the gleaming symbols of the artificial intelligence boom, and TSMC’s factories have gained nearly equal prominence as the indispensable workshops that manufacture them. But every AI processor is useless unless it’s surrounded by enormous quantities of memory capable of feeding it data at extraordinary speed.
Chetan Nayak Fails to Quell Skeptics Even with Majorana 2 Quantum Chip By JL Zhang | 14 Jul, 2026
2,000-fold more stability in the Microsoft chip's topological qubit fails to satisfy those who question the quantum nature of its physics. Chetan Nayak and Microsoft have doubled down on one of the riskiest bets in quantum computing: that elusive Majorana-based topological qubits can leapfrog the more conventional approaches pursued by IBM, Google, Quantinuum and IonQ. The June 2026 release of Microsoft’s Majorana 2 chip was meant to show that the bet is finally paying off.
AI Drives Shift Away from Crypto By JL Zhang | 08 Jul, 2026
The lure of billions from powering AI data centers is driving a shift away from bitcoin mining and other power-intensive crypto investments. For more than a decade, the bitcoin mining industry had a single, all-consuming purpose: convert cheap electricity into cryptocurrency. Companies raced to lock up power contracts, build warehouse-scale facilities packed with specialized chips, and accumulate bitcoin on their balance sheets.
Arvind Krishna Leads IBM to Reclaim Its Place Atop the Chip Tech Hierarchy By JL Zhang | 05 Jul, 2026
If the 7-angstrom chip recently unveiled by IBM goes into production, Big Blue would once again take the lead in a core technology of the digital age. For most of the past two decades, IBM has been the great tech company that time seemed to be passing by.
Understand Asian Indirect Communications to Avoid Costly Misunderstandings By JL Zhang | 29 Jun, 2026
The use of veiled references instead of direct demands to convey respect for the other person is often misunderstood as a mere sharing of sentiment, leading to sometimes disastrous breakdowns in communication . In 1977, two Boeing 747s collided on a runway in Tenerife, Spain, killing 583 people — still the deadliest aviation accident in history.
Become an AI Bonus Baby—or Just Get Paid Like One By JL Zhang | 22 Jun, 2026
Here's the lowdown on the degrees, skillsets and experiences most sought after in the AI boom. If you'd told a college student in 2015 that one of the hottest career paths of the next decade would involve teaching machines to write poems, summarize legal contracts, diagnose diseases, generate images and occasionally hallucinate with supreme confidence, you'd probably have gotten a puzzled look. Yet here we are.
The 10 Most Spectacularly Credible UFO Sightings of the Past 12 Months By JL Zhang | 07 Jun, 2026
These UFOs are enrants in the UAP beauty pageant gracing our skies and our waters. In late 2025 a US military helicopter crew observed for an entire hour a large number of orbs swarming the skies near their chopper, with a couple of them approaching for a much closer encounter. (Image by ChatGPT) The UFO conversation has never been louder, stranger, or more credibly sourced. In May 2026 more than 200 classified government files dumped onto the internet under the PURSUE declassification.
What's Alexandr Wang Doing to Scale Up Meta's Superintelligence Push? By JL Zhang | 02 Jun, 2026
What Mark Zuckerberg got for the $14-billion-plus he invested to snatch the Scale AI founder from his company to lead Meta's AI efforts. These days people ask two questions about Alexandr Wang. What happened to the final "e" of his first name? Secondly, what's he doing to justify the roughly $14 billion payday Meta handed over to bring him into Mark Zuckerberg's increasingly frantic race toward superintelligence?
The Startups Most Likely to Beat Tech Giants in Realizing Quantum Computing Potential By JL Zhang | 26 May, 2026
IBM, Microsoft, Google and IBM have strong competition in the race to build fault-tolerant, scalable and energy-efficient quantum accelerators that can create breakthroughs to alien-level technology. The myth of quantum computing was its potential to take us from a civilization mostly crawling around the surface of our planet to one able to zip thrustlessly through parsecs of space. Guess what?
How Sanjay Mehrotra Put Micron in a League with Samsung and SK Hynix By JL Zhang | 19 May, 2026
The Micron CEO used his engineering virtuosity to achieve a 30% power-efficiency edge, placing Micron ahead in the 3-way AI HBM race. For most of its history Micron Technology was the memory industry's also-ran — the American company that perpetually chased Samsung and SK Hynix without ever quite catching them. It survived the brutal memory wars of the 1980s and 1990s that wiped out dozens of competitors, then spent decades playing catch-up on process nodes while the Korean giants set the pace.
Lee Sung Jin Emerges As a Great American Screenwriter By JL Zhang | 05 May, 2026
The darkly comic penetration of society and character that Lee brings to life in Beef and other screen projects puts him in rarefied company. There's a version of this story where Lee Sung Jin — known to collaborators and fans alike as Sungie — never breaks through.
Top 10 Topics & Issues for Asian Americans By JL Zhang | 30 Apr, 2026
This list of the issues that most concern Asian Americans is based on studies by UC Berkeley's AAPI Data, The Asian American Foundation and the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago. Here are the issues on the minds of Asian Americans as expressed to pollsters. 1. Cost of Living & the Economy Cost of living is the top issue on the minds of AAPI adults (58%), while jobs and the economy follow closely behind.
Our Top-5 Deathbed Regrets and Those of History's Great Asian Leaders By JL Zhang | 26 Apr, 2026
Our regrets tend to look inward while those of great Asian leaders remain fixed to the end on the unfinished business of their life goals. When most of are facing our dying breaths, the evidence suggests that we don't tend to regret the things we did. Rather the regret is centered around what we didn't do. The roads not taken. The words never said. The lives they quietly shelved in favor of the lives they thought they were supposed to live.
2026 Looks Big for Quantum Computing Real-World Deployment By JL Zhang | 20 Apr, 2026
Thanks to major advances in error-correction the IBM's Quantum Nighthawk processor is just one of several developments seeking to demonstrate quantum advantage by the end of 2026. The old quantum computing joke has been that practical machines are always "five years away." It's been a reliable joke — and, for skeptics, a reliable reason to tune out. But 2026 is proving different.
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CORRESPONDENCE YZ Zhao Corresponding Author E-mail address: yuzhouzhao@126.com Department of Surgery, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, 450052 China Corresponding Author Email: yuzhouzhao@126.com Search for more papers by this author This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record.
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