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Cancer cells engineered with CRISPR slay their own kin

Using gene editing, scientists have hoodwinked tumor cells into turning against their own kind. Cancer cells circulating in the bloodstream have something of a homing instinct, able to find and return to the tumor where they originated. To capitalize on that ability, researchers engineered these roving tumor cells to secrete a protein that triggers a death switch in resident tumor cells they encounter.

Spiders Can Fly Thousands of Miles With Electric Power

Small spiders achieve flight by aiming their butts at the sky and releasing tendrils of silk to generate lift. Darwin thought that electricity might be involved when he noticed that spider silk stands seemed to repel each other with electrostatic force, but many scientists assumed that the arachnids, known as “ballooning” spiders, were simply sailing on the wind like a paraglider. The wind power explanation has thus far been unable to account for observations of spiders rapidly launching into the air, even when winds are low, however.

Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock

If you believe the CEOs, a fully autonomous car could be only months away. In 2015, Elon Musk predicted a fully autonomous Tesla by 2018; so did Google. Delphi and MobileEye’s Level 4 system is currently slated for 2019, the same year Nutonomy plans to deploy thousands of driverless taxis on the streets of Singapore.

Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and Lambda@Edge

A few months ago we released a new way for people to run serverless Javascript called Cloudflare Workers. We believe Workers is the fastest way to execute serverless functions, but lets prove it. At the 95th percentile, Workers is 441% faster than a Lambda function, and 192% faster than Lambda@Edge.

India Is Launching a Rover to the Moon to Look for Nuclear Fusion Fuel

Tesla Battery Caught Fire Twice After Fatal Crash, Investigation Finds

Don’t Learn TensorFlow! Start with Keras or PyTorch Instead

So, you want to learn deep learning? Whether you want to start applying it to your business, base your next side project on it, or simply gain marketable skills – picking the right deep learning framework to learn is the essential first step towards reaching your goal. We strongly recommend that you pick either Keras or PyTorch.

Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B

Kroger will use autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries this fall

How BuzzFeed Migrated from a Perl Monolith to Go and Python Microservices