An average person with type 1 diabetes and no insulin pump sticks a needle into their abdomen between 700 and 1,000 times per year. A person with the hormone disorder acromegaly travels to a doctor’s office to receive a painful injection into the muscles of the butt once a month. Someone with multiple sclerosis may […]
I’m wearing a first-generation Fitbit Flex. It’s been a while since it’s been cool. Sitting near me in a Stanford University conference room last month was someone wearing the latest Apple Watch. It seemed like the latest in wearable tech when the Wearable Tech Digital Health Neurotech Conference started—not so much a few hours later. That’s […]
New Advanced Programmable Switches First to Unlock the Full Potential of P4 OCP Global Summit, San José, CA – March 14 2019 – Open Networking experts STORDIS today announced the launch of two bare-metal switches powered by the fully programmable Barefoot Tofino ASIC. An industry first, the STORDIS Advanced Programmable Switches (APS) offer comprehensive 1588v2 […]
2H Offshore has completed the installation of a lightweight, conductor-supported, minimum facility wellhead platform at Sarawak, Malaysia. The company was responsible for the concept, detailed design, transportation and installation of the platform in 35m water depth for the D28 oilfield Phase 1 project for OceanMight on behalf of Petronas. The design has a lightweight substructure […]
Late last year, Google received six hard disk drives from Seagate: brand new, save for their rare-earth magnets. The magnets had already spent one life in Google’s data centers and were headed for a second one. The proof-of-concept experiment is one of five projects under a global initiative to examine the feasibility of recovering and […]
Solar panels are multiplying on rooftops and in gardens worldwide as communities clamor for renewable electricity. But engineers in Belgium say the panels could do more than keep the lights on—they could also produce hydrogen gas on site, allowing families to heat their homes without expanding their carbon footprints. A team at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, […]
May 22, 2019 – UPDATE The International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing was launched today. Click here for more information March 13, 2019 A commentary published in Nature calls for a moratorium on clinical uses of heritable human genome editing and the establishment of an international governance framework. (We responded […]
One of the big limiters to today’s quantum computing systems is that while their superconducting qubits live in a cryogenic enclosure at less than 1 kelvin, all the control and readout circuits must be at room temperature. For today’s sub-100-qubit systems, there’s enough space for specialized RF cabling to come in and out of the […]
March 13, 2019 (Russian translation) WASHINGTON — The president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the presidents of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) have signed a five-year agreement to continue their cooperation on studies, workshops, and other activities […]
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