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Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?

Digital clones of people's dead relatives are far from perfect: they're occasionally impersonal and sometimes downright creepy. But if the technology might help us hang onto the people we love, is it so wrong to try? This story was written by news editor Charlotte Jee and narrated by Noa.

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  Meet the radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine’s drone defense

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  ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that…

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  Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evo…

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  The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit

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  The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom

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  Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?

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  Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most famous national park is …

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  How gamification took over the world

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  Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “super trees”

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  What is AI?

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  The cost of building the perfect wave

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  How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play

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  The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited organs

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  Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?

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  How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime