The version used in Maryland came from a pig with 10 gene modifications developed by Revivicor, a subsidiary of United Therapeutics. Following promising tests of such pig organs in baboons, three US transplant teams launched the first human studies starting in late 2021. Surgeons at New York University and the University of Alabama each attached […]
Monthly Archives: May 2022
The Download: Meta’s AI giveaway, and abortion clinic data tracking
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Brokers are selling the location data of people who visit abortion clinicsThis is an old problem, but it’s taking on a new urgency in the light of the potential repeal of Roe v Wade. (Motherboard)+ Overturning Roe v Wade […]
Resilience tips as we return to the office
Victoria MacLennan. 04 May 2022, 11:05 pm Wikipedia describes psychological resilience as an individual’s ability to successfully cope with adversity. There is no question we have all dealt with adversity in the last 2 years, and here we are facing the challenge of navigating yet another new norm – starting to travel again, returning to […]
Gear from Netgear, Linksys, and 200 others has unpatched DNS poisoning flaw
Getty Images reader comments 14 with 12 posters participating Share this story Hardware and software makers are scrambling to determine if their wares suffer from a critical vulnerability recently discovered in third-party code libraries used by hundreds of vendors, including Netgear, Linksys, Axis, and the Gentoo embedded Linux distribution. The flaw makes it possible for […]
Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free
Pineau helped change how research is published in several of the largest conferences, introducing a checklist of things that researchers must submit alongside their results, including code and details about how experiments are run. Since she joined Meta (then Facebook) in 2017, she has championed that culture in its AI lab. “That commitment to open […]
Botnet that hid for 18 months boasted some of the coolest tradecraft ever
reader comments 18 with 12 posters participating Share this story It’s not the kind of security discovery that happens often. A previously unknown hacker group used a novel backdoor, top-notch trade craft, and software engineering to create an espionage botnet that was largely invisible in many victim networks. The group, which security firm Mandiant is […]
The Download: Storing renewable power with carbon dioxide, and Roe v Wade under threat
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The Supreme Court is reportedly planning to overturn Roe v WadeAn actual decision won’t arrive for a couple of months, but it could be earth-shattering if the law that protects abortion rights gets repealed. (Politico)+ Here’s what would happen […]
This company wants to use carbon dioxide to store renewable power on the grid
Compressing gases to store energy isn’t new: for decades, a few facilities around the world have been pumping air into huge underground caverns under pressure and then using it to generate electricity in a natural gas power plant. But Energy Dome turned to carbon dioxide because of its physics. Carbon dioxide, when squeezed to high […]
What do you think? Upskilling and Reskilling
Victoria MacLennan. 03 May 2022, 8:14 pm The digital technology industry is suffering greatly from a mismatch of skill supply and demand at different stages of the skills pipeline. This makes it difficult for firms to find the experienced people they need, for graduates to get their first job, tech workers to get career progression, […]
Local Web3/crypto venture capital fund to invest $5 million in start-ups
Peter Griffin, Editor. 03 May 2022, 10:46 am If 2021 was characterised by anything in the world of tech it was the wave of hype surrounding so-called Web3 ventures, the Metaverse and the blockchain technologies underpinning them. Literally billions have been invested in the last year by venture capitalists into everything from non-fungible token platforms […]