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August 2017

By: Technology Review
Narrated by: Todd Mundt
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In this issue:

"Can China and the Internet Save American Small Business?" by Emily Parker.

"In China, a Store of the Future—No Checkout, No Staff" by Yiting Sun.

"China's Central Bank Has Begun Cautiously Testing a Digital Currency" by Will Knight.

"Trump Talk Aside, Auto Manufacturing and Automation Are Booming in Mexico" by Amy Guthrie.

"Karamba Is Writing Software to Keep Your Connected Car from Getting Hacked" by Doron Levin.

"Peter Thiel Is Funding the Effort to Bring Woolly Mammoths Back to Life" by Antonio Regalado.

"Floating Wind Plan Could Finally Crack California's Offshore Market" by James Temple.

"Scientists Sharply Rebut Influential Renewable-Energy Plan" by James Temple.

"U.S. to Fund Advanced Brain-Computer Interfaces" by Adam Piore.

"Kasparov Thinks Deeply about His Battle with a Machine" by Jonathan Schaeffer.

"Organoids Proposed to Screen Patients for High-Priced Drugs" by Antonio Regalado.

"Personalized Cancer Vaccines Look Promising in Two New Studies" by Emily Mullin.

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