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In this issue: "35 Innovators Under 35 2015" by The Editors of Technology Review. "The Next Great GMO Debate" by Antonio Regaldo.

You’ll learn about the TR10, the 10 most important technological milestones reached in the last 12 months. You’ll hear about the tribulations involved in creating a public repository of every book ever published. You’ll learn how social communications played a big part on the war against Qaddafi. And you’ll find out why Apple’s iPhone app, Siri works so well.

In this issue, you’ll hear about the future of the computer industry. You’ll learn why Google’s Nexus 7 is going to make plenty of friends. You’ll hear why the advertising industry is battling some of technology’s biggest companies. You’ll learn whether Europe's strict stance on protecting people's data is costing businesses or creating new opportunities. You’ll hear how candidates are matching voter records with sophisticated online tracking to target their ads. And you’ll hear news from the worlds of Biomedicine, Technology and Communications.

You’ll hear how President Obama’s campaign used big data to rally individual voters. You’ll learn why climate change must take top priority in the next four years of President Obama’s Administration. You’ll hear how technology has given politics back its soul. You’ll learn about how a simple diagnostic test could help prevent the deaths of 1.5 million people each year from tuberculosis.

In this issue: "Who Will Own the Robots?" by David Rotman. "Biotech's Coming Cancer Cure" by Antonio Regalado. "Cyber-Espionage Nightmare" by David Talbot. "Rebooting the Automobile" by Will Knight.

In this issue: "Facebook Instant Articles Just Don't Add Up for Publishers" by Michael Wolff; "Probing the Dark Side of Google's Ad-Targeting System" by Tom Simonite; "Artificial Intelligence That Makes Your Smartphone Smarter" by Rachel Metz; "Self-Charging Phones Are on the Way, Finally" by Rachel Metz; "Smartphones (and Motorcycles) Fuel Hyperlocal E-Commerce in India" by George Anders; "Inside India's Phablet Revolution" by George Anders; "Is Now a Good Time to Meet Your New Virtual Assistant?" by Will Knight; "Inside Amazon's Warehouse, Human-Robot Symbiosis" by Will Knight; "How to Stop Virtual Reality from Making You Want to Puke" by Rachel Metz; "Automated Vehicles: One Eye on the Road, Another on You" by Will Knight; "Teach Your Fitness Band to Track Biceps Curls and More" by Rachel Metz; "The Great Cancer Test Experiment" by Antonio Reglado; "When a Fetus's Test Finds a Mother’s Cancer" by Anna Nowogrodzki; and "Should Babies Have Their Genomes Sequenced?" by Anna Nowogrodzki.

In this issue, you’ll learn how Artificial intelligence is finally getting smart. You’ll hear about the next frontier of the genome revolution. You’ll learn about a maverick neuroscientist who believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories. You’ll hear about the debate over what our responsibilities and duties are to help safeguard the distant future from global warming. And you’ll learn why we need technology that enhances human drivers’ abilities rather than making those abilities increasingly obsolete.

In this issue, you’ll hear how a new book about Google offers some fascinating inside details. You'll learn how recent infighting has done little to explain how Anonymous operates – or what drives it. You’ll hear about the story behind Intel's new design. You'll learn how mobile phones are now starting to influence the operating systems of the traditional desktops they once imitated.

In this issue, you'll hear how social media, Wi-Fi gadgets and a sense of shame keep people motivated. You'll learn why an alliance with Facebook should give Microsoft an edge against search rival Google. You'll hear why some of the world's biggest technology companies have on-demand video on their slate for the upcoming year. You'll learn about a new device that can scan fingerprints from up to two meters away.

In this issue, learn why we are having difficulties solving the big problems. You’ll learn about United States’ plan of sending astronauts to Mars in 2030. You’ll hear about the looming Alzheimer's health-care disaster. You’ll learn whether online colleges are just a fad or the change that higher education needs. And you’ll learn how solar-powered microgrids could help bring power to millions of the World’s poorest.

In this issue: "Apple Has Plans for Your DNA" by Antonio Regalado. "Small Display Bedevils Some Apple Watch Apps" by Rachel Metz. "Microsoft Making Fast Progress with HoloLens" by Rachel Metz. "Startup Beams the Web’s Most Important Content from Space, Free" by Tom Simonite. "Even Robots Now Have Their Own Virtual World" by Will Knight. "Some Tesla Owners Pimp Their Rides with Code" by Will Knight. "Dropbox Follows the Money into Crowded Market for Business Tools" by Tom Simonite. "Why Bitcoin Could Be Much More Than a Currency" by Mike Orcutt. "A New Competitor for Bitcoin Aims to Be Faster and Safer" by Tom Simonite. "Can You Improve Your E-Mails by Analyzing Recipients’ Personalities?" by Rachel Metz. "A Potato Made with Gene Editing" by Antonio Regalado. "CRISPR Patent Fight Now a Winner-Take-All Match" by Antonio Regalado.

In this issue, you'll hear how researchers are pursuing radical new ways to eliminate AIDs. You'll learn what the recent increase in cyber attacks can teach us about thwarting cyber crime, espionage and warfare. You'll hear about a billionaire who is attempting to make solar power a commonplace and affordable source of energy. And you'll learn how the FCC is planning to improve internet connectivity in an effort to help boost the economy.

You’ll learn how local programmers and homegrown business models are helping to realize the vast promise of using phones to improve health care and save lives. You’ll hear how an Internet pioneer’s quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery. You’ll learn how personalized cancer treatment may have finally arrived. You’ll hear how a startup is trying to reinvent computer networking in an effort to make Internet services smarter, faster, and cheaper.

In this issue, you'll hear about how the Microsoft Kinect is fun but its natural user interfaces still have a long way to go. You'll learn about what Google TV has to offer – despite tepid early reviews. You'll learn about a new messaging system that could steal advertising dollars from Facebook's rivals. You'll hear about an app that goes through the clutter of texts, calls, and e-mails on a device to make sense out of a chaotic social network.

You’ll hear how pro-manufacturing advisors have the ear of the president. You’ll hear how robots could be replacing low-wage workers. You’ll learn how breakthroughs in hardware and software brought us usability advances, faster chips, and gesture control. You’ll hear two articles on China’s technological outlook for the year. You’ll learn about a new processor that could help usher in the next wave of mobile communication breakthroughs. And you’ll hear news from the worlds of Biomedicine, Technology and Communications.

In this issue, you’ll learn how one of the world’s most renowned cancer researchers is gearing up for Plan B. You’ll hear how a California father made an end run around medicine to decode his son’s DNA. You’ll learn how one of China’s internet giants is trying to challenge Silicon Valley’s biggest companies. You’ll hear about the mastermind behind Bitcoin and how he has the most power over its destiny. You’ll learn how Apple’s first smart watch appears to be the best of its kind. And you’ll hear how Google’s crack at a quantum computer is a bid to change computing forever.

In this issue, you'll hear how a small group of Web rivals joined forces to save the internet. You'll hear how Google is taking a second shot at thwarting Facebook's dominance over online social networking. You'll learn what the iPad's rivals must overcome in order to have a chance in the marketplace. You'll hear how one of the leading scientists in a new field of biology is using light to control different aspects of behavior.

In this Special Issue, Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35. All 35 of these people are doing exciting work that could shape their fields for decades. But they’re solving problems in remarkably different ways. We consider some of them to be primarily Inventors; they’re immersed in building new technologies. Others we call Visionaries, because they’re showing how technologies could be put to new or better uses. Humanitarians are using technology to expand opportunities or inform public policy. Pioneers are doing fundamental work that will spawn future innovations; such breakthroughs will be taken up by tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs, people who are building new tech businesses. Everyone on the list was nominated either by the public or by MIT Technology Review’s editors. Some got our attention when they were picked by our international publishing partners as Innovators Under 35 for their regions. After our editors pared the roughly 500 nominees to 80 finalists, outside judges rated the originality and impact, or potential impact, of their work; those scores guided the editors as they crafted the list.

In this issue: "Congress Takes Blockchain 101" by Mike Orcutt; "Why Congress Can't Seem to Fix This 30-Year-Old Law Governing Your Electronic Data" by Mike Orcutt; "Trump's Tax Talk Sounds Less Than "Phenomenal" for Tech" by Peter Burrows; "The U.S. Military Wants Its Autonomous Machines to Explain Themselves" by Will Knight; "Messaging App Sweeping Asia Could Blunt Snapchat's Global Ambitions" by Yoochul Kim and Elizabeth Woyke; "This Lab-in-a-Box Could Make Gene Therapy Less Elitist" by Antonio Regalado; and more!

In this issue: "Microsoft's Top Lawyer Becomes a Civil Rights Crusader" by Tom Simonite; "Bill Gates Doubles His Bet on Wiping Out Mosquitoes with Gene Editing" by Antonio Regalado; "Manufacturing Dopamine in the Brain with Gene Therapy" by Antonio Regalado; "China's Headlong Rush into an Ultra-expensive Cancer Therapy" by Yiting Sun; "Fetal Cells Offer Promise in Prenatal Testing" by Bonnie Rochman; "A Big Step Forward in the Quest for a Better Painkiller" by Adam Piore; "Life as an Entrepreneur in a Violent Mexico" by Adam Popescu.