In this issue:

"Congress Takes Blockchain 101" by Mike Orcutt.

"Why Congress Can't Seem to Fix This 30-Year-Old Law Governing Your Electronic Data" by Mike Orcutt.

"Trump's Tax Talk Sounds Less Than "Phenomenal" for Tech" by Peter Burrows.

"The U.S. Military Wants Its Autonomous Machines to Explain Themselves" by Will Knight.

"Messaging App Sweeping Asia Could Blunt Snapchat's Global Ambitions" by Yoochul Kim and Elizabeth Woyke.

"This Lab-in-a-Box Could Make Gene Therapy Less Elitist" by Antonio Regalado.

"Patent Office Hands Win in CRISPR Battle to Broad Institute" by Antonio Regalado.

"Startup Aims to Treat Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR" by Antonio Regalado.

"The Search for a Perfect Male Birth Control Pill" by Emily Mullin.

"How a Human-Machine Mind-Meld Could Make Robots Smarter" by Will Knight.

"Hailing a Different Ride in Austin" by Dan Solomon.

"How a College Kid Made His Honda Civic Self-Driving for $700" by Tom Simonite.

"Machine Learning and Data Are Fueling a New Kind of Car" by Will Knight.

"The War on the Disturbingly Real Trolls in Virtual Reality" by Tom Simonite.

"Using Virtual Reality Underwater Is Weird (but Fun)" by Rachel Metz.

"Nuclear Energy Startup Transatomic Backtracks on Key Promises" by James Temple.