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Feb 7, 2022

Meta moves to tackle creepy behaviour in virtual reality

Posted by in category: virtual reality

Women describe their experiences but what can firms behind virtual-reality platforms do about it?

Feb 7, 2022

Meteorite older than Earth likely came from a “protoplanet”

Posted by in category: futurism

The rock, found in the Sahara, likely comes from a long-lost baby protoplanet.

Feb 7, 2022

Keren Haruvi — President, Sandoz US, Head Of North America — Global Generic Medicine Access For All

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, chemistry, economics, finance

Pioneering global generic medicine access to improve and extend people’s lives — keren haruvi snir-president, sandoz US, head of north america.


Keren Haruvi is President of Sandoz US and Head of their North America business (https://www.novartis.us/about-us/our-leadership/us-country-l…n-haruvi).

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Feb 7, 2022

Alistair Fulton — Connecting & Enabling A Smarter Planet — VP, Wireless & Sensing Products, Semtech

Posted by in categories: computing, information science, internet, satellites

Connecting & enabling a smarter planet — alistair fulton, VP, wireless & sensing products, semtech.


Alistair Fulton (https://www.semtech.com/company/executive-leadership/alistair-fulton) is the Vice President and General Manager of Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group.

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Feb 7, 2022

At Last: New Synthetic Tooth Enamel Is Harder and Stronger Than the Real Thing

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

Delivering what has been so challenging to produce, researchers present an engineered analog of tooth enamel – an ideal model for designing biomimetic materials – designed to closely mimic the composition and structure of biological teeth’s hard mineralized outer layer. It demonstrates exceptional mechanical properties, they say.

Natural tooth enamel – the thin outer layer of our teeth – is the hardest biological material in the human body. It is renowned for its high stiffness, hardness, viscoelasticity, strength, and toughness and exhibits exceptional damage resistance, despite being only several millimeters thick.

Tooth enamel’s unusual combination of properties is a product of its hierarchical architecture – a complex structure made up of mostly hydroxyapatite nanowires interconnected by an amorphous intergranular phase (AIP) consisting of magnesium-substituted amorphous calcium phosphate. However, accurately replicating this type of hierarchical organization in a scalable abiotic composite has remained a challenge.

Feb 7, 2022

American hacker says he took down North Korean internet, Wired reports

Posted by in category: internet

P4x says he was behind a series of outages last month.

Feb 7, 2022

An AI robot nanny will care for human embryos in artificial wombs

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Feb 7, 2022

Astronomers spot a wandering black hole in empty space for the first time

Posted by in categories: climatology, cosmology, existential risks, information science, robotics/AI, sustainability

Machine learning can work wonders, but it’s only one tool among many.

Artificial intelligence is among the most poorly understood technologies of the modern era. To many, AI exists as both a tangible but ill-defined reality of the here and now and an unrealized dream of the future, a marvel of human ingenuity, as exciting as it is opaque.

It’s this indistinct picture of both what the technology is and what it can do that might engender a look of uncertainty on someone’s face when asked the question, “Can AI solve climate change?” “Well,” we think, “it must be able to do *something*,” while entirely unsure of just how algorithms are meant to pull us back from the ecological brink.

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Feb 7, 2022

BMW’s New 8K In-Car Screen Is So Large It Requires a Rear-Facing Camera

Posted by in category: electronics

Feb 7, 2022

It’s Official, No More Stick Shifts for Mercedes-Benz

Posted by in category: transportation

Using an automatically-operated clutch.

New patent filings from Ford outline a design for a new type of manual box that only uses hand inputs and doesn’t require a clutch pedal to shift, a report from *The Drive* reveals.

With its new design, Ford aims to remove some of the negative associations drivers have with manual transmission vehicles, which has led some big automakers, such as Mercedes-Benz, to announce they will stop producing stick shift cars. ## An easier way to shift gears.

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