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This Week in Technology Review - Week of October 15

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How acting as Carrie Fisher's puppet made a career for Rogue One's Princess Leia
"Ghost acting" is helping young actors build careers beyond their 15 minutes of fame
Photo of Ingvild Deila as Princess Leia
Actors are digitally preserving themselves to continue their careers beyond the grave
Improvements in CGI mean neither age nor death need stop some performers from working.
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MIT has just announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college for AI
Baidu just showed that China and the US can collaborate on AI
We can now customize cancer treatments, tumor by tumor
But can any company afford to manufacture one-off medical care?
The smartphone app that can tell you're depressed before you know it yourself
Analyzing the way you type and scroll can reveal as much as a psychological test.
Why we can't quit the QWERTY keyboard
We've been using it to type for 144 years. Here's why it works, and what it would take for us to give it up.
How to tell for sure if you're a victim of Facebook's huge data breach
Google's AI is better at spotting advanced breast cancer than pathologists
DNA test shows Elizabeth Warren probably had a Native American ancestor generations ago
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