A man with Parkinson’s regained the ability to walk thanks to a spinal implant
Marc is the first and only person to have received the new spinal neuroprosthesis, a small device containing electrodes placed under the skin on...
The World’s Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year
The United Nations has published a major new tally of the impact the world’s food system has on our health and the planet. According...
Best Fitting T-Shirts for Men (According to a Savile Row Tailor)
SCORES:Mott & Bow — M8 / C8 / J7 — TOTAL: 23Colorful Standard — M8 / C7 / J8 — TOTAL: 23Asket — M7...
David Cronenberg Is the Master of Grotesque Sci-Fi
David Cronenberg has directed more than 20 feature films in a wide variety of genres, but he remains best known for provocative ’80s sci-fi...
The Download: NASA’s tiny spacecraft, and the RSV vaccine shortage
Since the 1970s, we’ve sent a lot of big things to Mars. But when NASA successfully sent twin Mars Cube One spacecraft, the size...
RSV is on the rise but preventative drugs are in short supply
This year we were supposed to have more tools than ever before to protect kids from RSV (short for respiratory syncytial virus), including a...
Oracle Helidon 4 Java microservices framework stresses virtual threads
Oracle has released the production version of Helidon 4, a microservices framework for Java featuring a server implementation harnessing virtual threads for higher performance.Version...
Kotlin upgrade advances K2 compiler
The 1.9.20 version of JetBrains’ Kotlin language has been published, moving the high-performing K2 compiler to a beta stage.Kotlin 1.9.20 was announced October 31;...
The case for holding off on generative AI
The cloud offers several advantages for implementing generative AI models, and we’ve discussed that to death here. In short, the cloud provides scalable computing...
Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Found Guilty of Fraud
Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty of fraud and conspiracy by a jury in a court in New York. The founder of bankrupt crypto...
