I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Jackson is entering its fifth day without waterThe Mississippi capital’s residents are bearing the brunt of decades of governmental neglect. (The Guardian)+ The city has been forced to get by without money for infrastructure or repairs for years. (Vox)+ It’s still […]

Now it’s responsible for helping to clean up the industry.  In July the agency, which has about 600 employees and a roughly $900 million budget, added “and Carbon Management” to its name, signaling a major part of its new mission: to help develop the technology and build an industry that can prevent the release of […]

Twitter has resisted adding the ability to edit tweets for years, despite it being the most-requested feature from its users, including would-be owner Elon Musk. Former chief executive Jack Dorsey previously said in 2020 that the company would probably never introduce an edit button, explaining that doing so would ruin the “vibe” from Twitter’s early […]

During the covid-19 pandemic, antibodies played a front-and-center role. We used home tests to look for them, and we took vaccines so our bodies would make more. Less attention was paid to B cells, the immune-system cells that actually make antibodies, churning out as many as 10,000 a second—and which, after an infection, can persist […]

So far, B cells haven’t gotten the same attention—indeed, genetically engineered versions have never been tested in a human. That’s partly because “engineering B cells is not that easy,” says Xin Luo, a professor at Virginia Tech who in 2009 demonstrated how to generate B cells that have an added gene. That early work, carried out […]