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Alba Zappone scientific researcher at Zurich ETH monitors an injection of CO2 added with water into Opalinus Clay during a storage experiment in the Mont Terri underground laboratory in St-Ursanne, Switzerland. — Reuters
Swiss study aims to find out if carbon dioxide can be locked in rock
SAINT-URSANNE, Switzerland — Swiss scientists are injecting carbon dioxide into rock deep inside a mountain to discover if the gas leaks out or if it can be locked away to stop it contributing to climate change.Inside Mont Terri in the Jura Mountains, a layer of impermeable clay could potentially trap carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas causing global warming.At a laboratory deep inside the mountain, scientists have begun pumping carbon dioxide dissolved in salt water into the rock. They will see if the gas will interact with the clay and whether a faultline will allow it to seep out.The first eight-month phase of the experiment involves a tiny volume of carbon dioxide (CO2), with 500mg of carbon dioxide pumped into the rock through a borehole."If this rock has a fault in it, is...
May 08, 2019

Swiss study aims to find out if carbon dioxide can be locked in rock

Amazon plans to launch thousands of satellites for global internet access. Courtesy photo
New space race to bring satellite internet to the world
By IVAN COURONNEAnxiety has set in across the space industry ever since the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, revealed Project Kuiper: a plan to put 3,236 satellites in orbit to provide high-speed internet across the globe.Offering broadband internet coverage to digital deserts is also the goal of the company OneWeb, which is set to start building two satellites a day this summer in Florida, for a constellation of over 600 expected to be operational by 2021Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX is equally active: it’s just received a clearance to put 12,000 satellites in orbit at various altitudes in the Starlink constellation.Not to mention other projects in the pipeline that have less funding or are not yet as defined.Is there even enough space for three, four, five or more space-based...
May 08, 2019

New space race to bring satellite internet to the world

The new Nest Hub Max is displayed during the 2019 Google I/O conference at Shoreline Amphitheatre on Tuesday in Mountain View, California. Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered the opening keynote to kick off the annual Google I/O Conference that runs through Wednesday. — AFP
Google bucks soaring smartphone prices with new Pixel
MOUNTAIN VIEW, United States — Google on Tuesday bucked the soaring smartphone price trend, unveiling a high-performance Pixel handset aimed at the middle of the market as part of a wide-ranging pitch to developers of its new hardware, software and privacy effortsThe Pixel 3a phone, which includes many of the artificial intelligence features of its flagship devices, will be priced from $399, executives said as Google opened its annual I/O developers conference near its headquarters in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View."There has been a troubling trend of high-end phones getting more expensive," Google head of hardware Rick Osterloh said."So, we challenged ourselves to deliver a high-end experience in a new Pixel 3a starting at $399."The new Pixel was available...
May 07, 2019

Google bucks soaring smartphone prices with new Pixel

Scientists develop device to detect bacteria in minutes, not days
Washington — The era of doctors prescribing patients powerful antibiotics while they wait for lab reports could soon be numbered, with a new device returning results within minutes instead of days.It was invented by a team at Penn State university and described in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday.Co-developed by Pak Kin Wong, a professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering, the device uses microtechnology to trap single bacteria cells that can then be viewed under an electron microscope.The approach allows clinicians to determine in as little as 30 minutes whether bacteria is present and its susceptibility to drug treatment -- as opposed to the three-to-five days such lab work currently takes."We currently prescribe...
May 07, 2019

Scientists develop device to detect bacteria in minutes, not days

An employee checks the 3D printing of a scaffold for a kidney at Dr. Ali Ertuerk’s laboratory in Munich, Germany, on Tuesday. — Reuters
German scientists create see-through human organs
MUNICH, Germany — Researchers in Germany have created transparent human organs using a new technology that could pave the way to print three-dimensional body parts such as kidneys for transplants.Scientists led by Ali Erturk at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich have developed a technique that uses a solvent to make organs such as the brain and kidneys transparent.The organ is then scanned by lasers in a microscope that allows researchers to capture the entire structure, including the blood vessels and every single cell in its specific location.Using this blueprint, researchers print out the scaffold of the organ. They then load the 3D printer with stem cells which act as “ink” and are injected into the correct position making the organ functional.While 3D printing is already...
April 24, 2019

German scientists create see-through human organs

In this file photo guests attend Amazon Fire TV'S 'Fast Forward To The Future' Installation Media Preview during Comic-Con International 2018 in San Diego, California. Amazon and Google announced on Thursday they had agreed to allow each other's streaming media applications to work on their platforms, ending a spat over video between the tech giants. The companies said in a statement that the official YouTube apps will be available on Amazon's Fire TV in the coming months, allowing users of the Amazon platform to access the music videos, movies, shows and other content from the Google-owned service. — AFP
Google lets Android users in Europe choose rival browsers, search engines
BRUSSELS — Users of Android devices in Europe will be able to choose rival browsers and search engines from five options starting on Thursday, a senior Google executive said, as the company tries to quell EU antitrust concerns and stave off fresh penalties. Hit with a record 4.34 billion euro fine last year for using the market power of its mobile software to block rivals in areas such as internet browsing, Alphabet unit Google was also ordered to come up with a proposal to give its rivals a fair chance. The European Commission said Google had an unfair advantage by pre-installing its Chrome browser and Google search app on Android smartphones and notebooks. The company last month said it would let Android users choose their browser and search engine but did not provide...
April 18, 2019

Google lets Android users in Europe choose rival browsers, search engines

Facebook, WhatsApp hit by outages
New York — Facebook Inc's social networking site, photo-sharing social network Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp were inaccessible to some users on Sunday, downdetector.com, which monitors outages, showed.Downdetector.com indicated that there were more than 12,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook at its peak, but that figure dropped to about 2,000 reports.Facebook experienced one of its longest outages in March, when some users around the globe faced trouble accessing Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than 24 hours.The outage monitoring website also showed that, at the peak on Sunday, there were more than 3,000 incidents of people reporting issues with WhatsApp and 7,000 with Instagram.Downdetector.com's live outage map showed that the issues were...
April 14, 2019

Facebook, WhatsApp hit by outages

WhatsApp allows users to control who can add them to group chats
San Francisco — Facebook Inc’s on Wednesday changed the privacy settings on its WhatsApp messaging platform, allowing users to decide who can add them to chat groups.The company said https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000661/New-Privacy-Settings-for-Groups the setting will be rolled out on Wednesday for some users and be available worldwide in the coming weeks.This announcement comes amidst growing discontent over the world’s largest social network’s approach to privacy and user data as well as increasing concerns over its advertising practices.The user inviting another to a group will be prompted to send a private invite through an individual chat, giving the recipient the choice of joining the group. The request will expire in three days. — Reuters
April 03, 2019

WhatsApp allows users to control who can add them to group chats

Foldable smartphones...and the next revolution
“EVERY once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” These were the words uttered by Steve Jobs during the unveiling of the first iPhone, which was indeed a revolutionary product that made phones “smart”.For the last 12 years smartphones have been stuck in the loop of getting better in terms of hardware and software until it reached a limit where it did not make a huge difference. It reached a stage where there was little to differentiate between brands. And in some models there were few upgrades to the extent that a 3-year-old smartphone worked as good as a new one.Other than concept prototypes showcased at CES, there was no real revolutionary product in 2019 event. But there were glimpses of the new wave of the future, with global brands touting...
March 20, 2019

Foldable smartphones...and the next revolution

A plaque is displayed next to the former office of the inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee (on the right) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva. — AFP
As the web turns 30, is it an ‘out-of-control monster’?
Meyrin, Switzerland — Thirty years ago this month, a young British software engineer working at a lab near Geneva invented a system for scientists to share information that would ultimately change humanity.But three decades after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has warned that his creation has been “hijacked by crooks” that may spell its destruction.Berner-Lee’s old office at Europe’s physics lab CERN now looks no different than the others lining the long, nondescript corridor within the expansive compound.The only indication that history was made here is a small commemorative plaque and a page from an old CERN directory hung on the door, with “MOMENTARILY OUT OF OFFICE!” written in jest next to Berners-Lee’s name.“Tim worked a lot,” said technician...
March 04, 2019

As the web turns 30, is it an ‘out-of-control monster’?

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