If synthetic biology is to take off as a technology, that is not merely good, it is essential.

如果合成生物学能成为一项技术，那不仅是好，而且是意义深远。

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Busy professionals who travel to work by car may be able to take their hands off the wheel, sit back and check emails with autonomous vehicle technology being developed by UK researchers.

现在英国的研究者开发了一种自动驾驶技术，这对于忙碌的商务人士来说是个好消息，你在驾车的同时可以采用自动驾驶，它解放了你的双手，让你有时间去收邮件了。

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The technology will be backwards compatible, allowing old devices to communicate with new ones, so there's no reason for it not take off in the upcoming years.

蓝牙3.0还将实现向后兼容，允许旧版本的设备与新版本设备通信，所以很明显未来几年蓝牙3.0技术将得到大量应用。

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The ultimate goal, however, is to take such technology off-world.

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