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The Future Is a Leg Up on the Competition 18 February 2020 Top Story Want to Be Taller? Radical Surgery Permanently Extends Your Legs. In the last year, at least 30 men have made an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon named Dr. Kevin Debiparshad to have him saw through their perfectly healthy leg bones. At his LimbplastX Institute in Las Vegas, Debiparshad cuts through patients' femurs or tibias, forces the bones to separate with metal implants, and sends them on their way to heal. Once their bones grow back, they'll be several inches taller — like that one scene in the 1997 sci-fi film "Gattaca." read more → HEADLINES FROM TODAY ONE Hospital Director Dies in City Where the Coronavirus Originated read more → TWO Tesla Computer Hardware Stuns Competitors: "We Cannot Do It" read more → THREE Yasssss Queen: Chess Is Finally Becoming the Next Big eSport read more → FOUR Scientists Create Artificial Genome That Can Reproduce read more → FIVE SpaceX Says It Will Launch Space Tourists as Soon as Next Year read more → OF INTEREST Elon Musk: Everyone, "Including Tesla," Needs AI Regulation Musk took to Twitter on Monday night to respond to a massive feature story published in the MIT Technology Review about OpenAI, the AI research lab founded in part by Elon Musk, alongside others. Musk is calling for more regulation of everyone working with AI, even his own company. read more → NEWS IN QUOTES " If the market doesn't do a better job of accounting for climate, we could have a recession. "   Paul Griffin, accounting professor at the University of California Davis Research: Extreme Weather Could Crash the Economy read more → + Contact Us    + Unsubscribe Futurism PO Box 220502 Brooklyn, NY 11211 USA