A pig kidney is unpacked for transplant into 62-year-old Richard Slayman of Massachusetts.Credit: Massachusetts General Hospital Early success in the first transplant of a pig kidney into a living person has raised researchers’ hopes for larger clinical trials involving pig organs. Such trials could bring ‘xenotransplantation’, the use of animal organs in human recipients, into … Read more
March 22, 1993: Apple launches the PowerCD, the first device from the company that doesn’t require a computer to work. A portable CD player that also works as an external CD drive for Macs, it offers a glimpse of the extremely lucrative path Apple will follow a decade later. However, the PowerCD itself will ultimately … Read more
The use of at-home diagnostic tests soared during the omicron wave of the coronavirus.Credit: Tang Ming Tung/Getty During the COVID-19 health emergency, two strategies for detecting coronavirus infections were commonly adopted around the world. Part of Nature Outlook: Medical diagnostics Initially, in countries equipped with the necessary laboratory infrastructure, nasal swabs were analysed by polymerase … Read more
Microsoft recently brought in a new feature for DirectX 12 that could considerably improve gaming performance, and thanks to AMD, we have a clearer idea of what it might mean for frame rates in the future. This is Work Graphs, a tech previously in testing but now officially introduced for DX12. It’s a feature that … Read more
The age of humanoid robots could be a significant step closer thanks to a new release from Nvidia. The computing giant has announced the launch of Project GROOT, its new foundational model aimed at helping the development of such robots in industrial use cases. Revealed at Nvidia GTC 2024, the company says its new launch … Read more
In today’s era of data-driven decision-making, the marriage of machine learning and open banking data is transforming financial services. In recent years, we’ve seen its successful applications across various domains, including enhancing fraud protection through the analysis of extensive datasets with sophisticated algorithms that identify patterns indicative of fraudulent activity. The technologies have also played … Read more
Conversing with your computer has been a dream of futurists and technologists for decades. When you look at 2004’s state of the art, it’s staggering to see how far we’ve come. There are now billions of devices in our hands, and homes that listen to our queries and do their very best to answer them. … Read more
Now that it’s 2024, we can’t overlook the profound impact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having on our operations across businesses and market sectors. Government research has found that one in six UK organizations has embraced at least one AI technology within its workflows, and that number is expected to grow through to 2040. With … Read more
President Biden visits the US National Institutes of Health, which under his proposed budget would receive roughly the same amount of funding in the 2025 fiscal year as in the 2023 fiscal year.Credit: Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty US President Joe Biden today proposed modest increases in federal spending on science and innovation for the 2025 … Read more
WhatsApp is currently testing a new in-app label letting you know whether or not a chat room has end-to-end encryption (E2EE). WABetaInfo discovered the caption in the latest Android beta. According to the publication, it’ll appear underneath the contact and group name but only if the conversation is encrypted by the company’s “Signal Protocol” (Not … Read more