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Jun 16, 2019

Blood donation breakthrough sees scientists convert all types to O using gut bacteria

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

In a breakthrough that could save thousands of lives, scientists have found a way to convert all blood types to the universal type that is safe for all patients to receive, by using microbes found in the human gut.

Researchers from the University of British Columbia have figured out how to convert blood types A, B and AB into the universal Type O, which all patients can receive in a transfusion, regardless of their own blood type.

Jun 12, 2019

MIT Used a Laser to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person’s Ear

Posted by in categories: innovation, media & arts

Scientists have figured out how to use a laser to transmit audio, ranging from music to speech, to a person across a room without any receiver equipment — a potential breakthrough for the future of audio and communication.

“Our system can be used from some distance away to beam information directly to someone’s ear,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology research Charles M. Wynn said in a press release. “It is the first system that uses lasers that are fully safe for the eyes and skin to localize an audible signal to a particular person in any setting.”

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Jun 10, 2019

Neuromorphic Computing Breakthrough May Disrupt AI

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Scientists create a brain-like organic transistor that can learn and evolve.

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Jun 9, 2019

Linking Chips With Light

Posted by in categories: computing, innovation

IEEE Spectrum recently summarized a major breakthrough out of DARPA’s Photonically Optimized Embedded Microprocessors (POEM) program:

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Jun 9, 2019

Breakthrough quantum dot hybrid LED is inexpensive and delivers vibrant color

Posted by in categories: innovation, quantum physics

LED lighting systems could soon gain mainstream adoption with a new cost-effective hybrid LED and its solution-based process.

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Jun 8, 2019

The foundation of the computing industry’s innovation is faltering. What can replace it?

Posted by in categories: computing, innovation

Shrinking transistors have powered 50 years of advances in computing—but now other ways must be found to make computers more capable.

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Jun 7, 2019

Everything as Code: The future of ops tools

Posted by in categories: futurism, innovation

How do we manage our complex, multi-cloud, hybrid infrastructures? Seth Vargo maps the operations tooling ecosystem you need to know in order to maintain your sanity, but he also looks into the future of infrastructure as code tools and what cool innovations we can expect.

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Jun 7, 2019

In2Chess — The chess board of the future

Posted by in categories: futurism, innovation

A radical new innovation helping you to learn and excel in chess quickly with real time learning and progression.

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Jun 7, 2019

Guy Invents Real Life Spider-Man Web Shooter

Posted by in categories: entertainment, innovation

Some people simply dream of having superhero powers – but one man made it a reality by inventing a real life Spider-Man web shooter.

I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there who have been envious of Spider-Man’s nifty web-shooting trick; people who eventually had to come to terms with the fact that the closest they were going to get to having those powers was through Spider-Man video games.

But one guy has given the world the opportunity to control webs without a PS4, and instead with a device that really shoots webs. The best part is, they’re willing to share it with the world and have made the invention available for purchase.

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Jun 5, 2019

Chinese scientists make breakthrough in injectable cartilage

Posted by in categories: innovation, space

(ECNS) — The Chinese team that constructed the world’s first ear in a lab and grafted it onto a patient last year has made new progress by developing injectable cartilage that can be used in human tissue repair and plastic surgery.

The regeneration technique involves taking a small part of cartilage tissue from behind the ear of a patient, culturing seed cells in the lab and reproducing cells in a sufficient amount to fill a biodegradable mould made by 3D-printing.

Professor Cao Yilin, director of National Tissue Engineering Research Center, said it marks a breakthrough from previous technology as the cultured cells can be injected into a patient’s body parts like the nose and chin where they continue to develop into normal tissue, a minimally invasive treatment similar to natural growth.

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