Hmmmmmm shares a report from SciTechDaily: Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT used the power of nanotechnology to discover a new way that cancer can disarm its would-be cellular attackers by extending out nanoscale tentacles that c…
A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes
IEEE Spectrum reports on the progress being made to develop a “smart artificial pancreas” that senses blood glucose and administers insulin accordingly. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report: The artificial pancreas is finally at hand. …
Rare Einstein Manuscript Set To Fetch Millions
A rare manuscript by theoretical physicist Albert Einstein goes under the hammer in Paris on Tuesday, with auctioneers aiming for a stratospheric price tag. Phys.Org reports: The manuscript, containing preparatory work for Einstein’s key achievement th…
Rooftop Solar Helps Send South Australia Grid To Zero Demand In World’s First
South Australia on Sunday became the first gigawatt scale grid in the world to reach zero demand when the combined output of rooftop solar and other small non-scheduled generators exceeded all the local customer load requirements. Renew Economy reports…
Rolls-Royce’s All-Electric Airplane Reached a Record 387.4 MPH Top Speed
Rolls-Royce has announced that its all-electric plane, dubbed the “Spirit of Innovation,” is the fastest of its kind in the world after it reached a maximum speed of 387.4 mph (623 k/h) in recent flight tests. Gizmodo reports: In a recent news release,…
Qualcomm Has an Exclusivity Deal With Microsoft For Windows On ARM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from XDA Developers: Last week, we reported that MediaTek is planning to build a chipset for Windows on ARM. As it turns out, the Windows on ARM chipset space could be even hotter than that, because there’s a reason …
Adele Gets Spotify To Take Shuffle Button Off All Album Pages
Adele has persuaded Spotify to take the shuffle button off all album pages so tracks play in the artist’s own order. The BBC reports: The singer tweeted: “We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason. Our ar…
Gizmodo Is Making the Facebook Papers Public
Gizmodo says it will be making the “Facebook Papers” public, becoming the first media outlet to do so. These documents were leaked to U.S. regulators by a Facebook whistleblower earlier this year and “reveal that the social media giant has privately a…
India Police Charge Amazon Execs In Alleged Marijuana Smuggling Case
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Indian police said on Saturday they had charged senior executives of Amazon.com’s local unit under narcotics laws in a case of alleged marijuana smuggling via the online retailer. Police in the central …
Texas Plans To Become the Bitcoin Capital, Vulnerable Power Grid and All
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Texas, already home to the most vulnerable power grid in the U.S., is about to be hit by a surge in demand for electricity that’s twice the size of Austin’s. An army of cryptocurrency miners heading t…