IEEE Spectrum
- by Joanna GoodrichEver since she was an undergraduate student in Turkey, Simay Akar has been interested in renewable energy technology. As she progressed through her career after school, she chose not to develop the technology herself but to promote it. She has held marketing positions with major energy companies, and now she runs two startups. One of […]
- by Margo AndersonA recent Bluetooth connection between a device on Earth and a satellite in orbit signals a potential new space race—this time, for global location-tracking networks.Seattle-based startup Hubble Network announced today that it had a letter of understanding with San Francisco-based startup Life360 to develop a global, satellite-based Internet of Things (IoT) tracking system. The announcement […]
MIT Technology Review
- by Rhiannon WilliamsThis is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s Astra is its first AI-for-everything agent What’s happening: Google is set to launch a new system called Astra later this year. It promises that it will be the most powerful, advanced type…
- by Zeyi YangThis story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. We finally know the result of a legal case I’ve been tracking in Hong Kong for almost a year. Last week, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal granted an injunction that permits…
New Scientist
- In coming decades, major groundwater sources may become economically unfeasible — this could raise food prices and shift diets, among other impacts
- Using a new approach, scientists have successfully frozen and thawed brain organoids and cubes of brain tissue from someone with epilepsy, which could enable better research into neurological conditions
Science News
- by Jake BuehlerIn response to recordings of echolocating bats, tiger beetles emit noises that mimic toxic moths that bats avoid.
- by Aimee CunninghamBy 2050, as many as an additional 246 million adults 69 and older could experience temperature extremes that exceed 37.5° Celsius.