Quantum technology is a uniquely poor fit for biology. It requires extreme precision and clean environments free of interference, which couldn’t be further from the environment inside a living cell. Scientists have trouble maintaining the state of a qubit inside enormous, shielded quantum devices, but now researchers from the University …
Read More »Overclocker Hits DDR5 World Record With G.Skill Memory and Intel Inside
Last spring, overclocker Seby took some G.Skill Triedent Z5 memory to new heights using extreme cooling and some skillful overclocking. Now, thanks to French overclocker Bl4ckdot, there’s a new record: DDR5-12872.“We are proud to see G.Skill Trident Z5 memory once again breaking the boundaries,” said Frank Hung, Marketing Manager of …
Read More »Apple Patents Keyboard
(Photo: USPTO)A recent patent filing by Apple suggests the company is working on some kind of full-blown Mac computer that could be tucked inside one of its Magic keyboards. The design could allow a person to simply unplug the keyboard from an external display, stuff it in their rucksack, and …
Read More »Driven Approach to Innovation
Often, even the best ideas don’t make it from the winner’s circle of an innovation competition to the shop floor. Before they are adopted, they must find internal champions. Yet as important as this step is, most innovation initiatives tend to gloss over it, assuming that the brilliance of the …
Read More »Spotify New Ad Format For Podcasts
Spotify is today introducing a new ad format aimed at podcasters which it’s calling “Call-to-Action Cards” — or CTA cards, for short. The feature, which is powered by Spotify’s streaming ad insertion technology, will display a visual ad in the Spotify app when the audio ad begins to play. The …
Read More »Preserved Embryo
Paleontologists recently found well-preserved dinosaur eggs in an enormous nesting ground of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 80 million years ago (Cretaceous period) in what is now Patagonia, Argentina. In a paper in the journal Current Biology, they now describe an almost intact embryonic skull from one of these …
Read More »Inside the Red Planet
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Reveals Scientists believe Mars was much more similar to Earth in the distant past, not the dried-up ball of dust it is today. Understanding Mars could help us better understand how planets form, and the NASA InSight mission has the tools to get us there. Using …
Read More »IV Vitamin Therapy: Inside the Celeb Wellness Trend
Photo: Twenty20 Short of eating a perfect diet, a daily multivitamin is often touted as the next best thing — if only remembering to take it was as simple as it sounds. But what if there was an easier, more effective way to get essential vitamins and nutrients into your …
Read More »This Week in Space: Metal on Mars, Hydrogen Inside Enceladus, and a Meteoric Near-Miss
We didn’t get pasted by that asteroid that sailed through Wednesday, which is arguably a good thing. Discovered in 2014, it was due to pass by Earth at a close but safe distance, which it won’t do again for another 500 years. Scientists all over the world took the opportunity …
Read More »A look inside the Skopje startup scene
On Wednesday I had the unique pleasure of hanging out with a bunch of Macedonian startup founders and was very impressed. The Balkans have long been a promising spot for startups – the cost of living is low and the talent level is high – and this visit was unique …
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