Date25th, Jun 2019

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Netflix’s latest dystopian sci-fi has nanobots crawling over people’s brains to help hunt the perfect partner, writes Chelsea Whyte in her monthly TV column

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Netflix’s latest dystopian sci-fi has nanobots crawling over people’s brains to help hunt the perfect partner, writes Chelsea Whyte in her monthly TV column

Technology 22 May 2019
Osmosis show

Technology takes the mystery out of sex and love in Osmosis

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WOULD you trust a tech company to find your soulmate? Say that all you had to do was swallow a pill full of nanorobots that would scan your brain and implant a talking AI in your head, which would then show you the face of your one true love when you close your eyes. Would you do it? I wouldn’t.

That means I wouldn’t be a great beta tester for Osmosis, the start-up at the centre of the …

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