The metaverse needs aggressive regulation Metaverse platform companies will have data on where we go, what we look at, who we talk to, and even what we reach out and touch.

The Continued Quest for Pluripotent Adult Stem Cells Does the adult mammalian body contain naturally pluripotent stem cells, capable for forming any other cell type, given

Founders need to uncouple their own idea from its creator All founders want their companies to thrive without them, but the readiness to act on that awareness continues to be one of the more uncomfortable conversations within today’s market. After all, the glorification of founders (and our constant habit of treating them like rockstars) has some validity: Visionaries are intrinsically interesting humans, wild enough to […]

Is the UK government’s new IoT cybersecurity bill fit for purpose? Internet of Things (IoT) devices — essentially, electronics like fitness trackers and smart lightbulbs that connect to the internet — are now part of everyday life for most. However, cybersecurity remains a problem, and according to Kaspersky, it’s only getting worse: there were 1.5 billion breaches of IoT devices during the first six months of […]

Black holes: what we think we know, we don’t It took Albert Einstein 10 years to find the equations of general relativity, but German astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild only needed a few months to solve them. Schwarzschild’s solution describes the gravity of an isolated, spherical and unchanging object — the enigmatic black hole — but it was not understood for many years. Black holes helped to explain new astronomical discoveries, becoming essential ingredients of astrophysics. Science regarded black holes as abstractions until the 1960s. The recent experimental discovery of gravitational waves has changed our understanding of what black holes are. In 2016, the LIGO-Virgo collaboration detected gravitational waves generated by…This story continues at The Next Web

When Did Spotify Wrapped Get So Chatty? This year’s data dump from the streaming music service leaned heavily on contemporary buzzwords and slang — and inspired many, many memes.

FDA Approves “Glowing Tumor” Imaging Drug to Better Identify Ovarian Cancer Cells Using Approach Pioneered by Surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an imaging drug known as Cytalux (pafolacianine), which is attracted to ovarian

Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain Now, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have overcome these obstacles with an ultracompact camera the size

Microplastic pollution aids antibiotic resistance The Styrofoam container that holds your takeout cheeseburger may contribute to the population’s growing resistance to antibiotics. According

Omicron mutations may help SARS-CoV-2 evade antibodies  Scientists working on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded project led by Rice University have compiled a

Light-powered soft robots could suck up oil spills A floating, robotic film designed at UC Riverside could be trained to hoover oil spills at sea or

Parag Agrawal: Why Indian-born CEOs dominate Silicon Valley Parag Agrawal, Twitter's new CEO, is the latest of several Indian-Americans leading global tech firms.

Don’t let new hybrid workplaces keep the old systemic racism While I’m the first to say the National Urban League and many of my colleagues in the field are doing great work, too many companies are relying on us alone to change the world.

NSO Group Spyware Hits at Least 9 US State Department Phones The incident lays bare how hollow the surveillance company's reassurances about the limits of its hacking tools have always been.

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