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In this issue: "Disinformation Technology" by John Pollock; "The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI" by Will Knight; "James Allison Has Unfinished Business with Cancer" by Adam Piore; "Treating Addiction with an App" by Nanette Byrnes; and "The Growing Case for Geoengineering" by James Temple.

The high-flying Internet balloons dreamed up by Google will get their biggest test yet in 2016.

In this issue: "100 Days in, Few Clues about Trump's Tech Agenda" by Mike Orcutt; "Finding Solace in Defeat by Artificial Intelligence" by Brenden Lake; "Facebook's Sci-Fi Plan for Typing with Your Mind and Hearing with Your Skin" by Rachel Metz; "Google's Health Study Seeks 10,000 Volunteers to Give Up Their Medical Secrets" by Antonio Regalado; "Engineering the Perfect Astronaut" by Antonio Regalado; "With Neuralink, Elon Musk Promises Human-to-Human Telepathy. Don't Believe It." by Antonio Regalado; "The World's Largest Electric Vehicle Maker Hits a Speed Bump" by Laurie Burkitt.

In this issue: "One Man's Quest to Hack His Own Genes" by Antonio Regalado; "Critics Blast Star-Studded Advisory Board of Anti-Aging Company" by Karen Weintraub; "Questionable 'Young Blood' Transfusions Offered in U.S. as Anti-Aging Remedy" by Amy Maxmen; "10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2016: Where Are They Now?" by Tom Simonite; "5 Big Predictions for Artificial Intelligence in 2017" by Will Knight; "Everything You Need to Know About Gene Therapy’s Most Promising Year" by Antonio Regalado; "For $149 a Month, the Doctor Will See You as Often as You Want" by Rachel Metz; "The Man Selling Virtual Reality to China" by Yiting Sun; "One Startup's Vision to Reinvent the Web for Better Privacy" by Tom Simonite; "Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence" by Will Knight; "Robot Cars Can Learn to Drive without Leaving the Garage" by Will Knight; "The Limits of Fact-Checking Facebook" by Matt Mahoney.

Despite their ubiquity, smartphones are still not very helpful at getting you information based on what you're already doing. For instance, if you get an e-mail from a friend asking if you want to check out a new restaurant in town, you have to leave the app behind and go conduct a Web search to learn more.

When Milton Wright III got his third cancer diagnosis, he cried until he laughed. He was 20 and had survived leukemia twice before, first when he was eight and again as a teen. Each time he’d suffered through years of punishing chemotherapy.

In this issue: "35 Innovators Under 35 – Inventors" by The Editors of Technology Review; "35 Innovators Under 35 – The Entrepreneurs" by The Editors of Technology Review; "35 Innovators Under 35 – Visionaries" by The Editors of Technology Review; "35 Innovators Under 35 – Humanitarians" by The Editors of Technology Review; "35 Innovators Under 35 – Pioneers" by The Editors of Technology Review; and "A New Way to Reproduce" by Antonio Regalado.

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…

In this issue: "Why Tesla Is Worth More than GM" by James Surowiecki; "Help from Above" by Jonathan W. Rosen; "Carbon" by Katherine Bourzac; "Oxford Nanopore" by Antonio Regalado; "IBM" by David H. Freedman; "General Electric" by Elizabeth Woyke; "Why Bad Things Happen to Clean-Energy Startups" by James Temple.