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As heart transplant surgery becomes more common, the supply of donor hearts in the United States continues to fail to meet demand. Now doctors in Seattle are testing a new system for transporting donor hearts that they hope will close the gap. https://youtu.be/9c1WqQAYCac
San Francisco, United States (AFP) — by Sophie ESTIENNE / with Rob Lever in Washington The mega-extravaganza of the tech world in Las Vegas is showcasing an array of new devices that get smarts from computer chips, sensors and artificial intelligence, but go further by opening doors to augmented or virtual realities. The Consumer Electronics Show, which begins with a series of media events Tuesday will offer trade professionals a look at new robotics, connected cars and […]
A giant South Korean-built manned robot that walks like a human but makes the ground shake under its weight has taken its first baby steps.
Reuters — Researchers from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) are hoping to bring the futuristic dream of billionaire inventor Elon Musk to reality. In 2013 South-African business magnate Musk unveiled his concept of Hyperloop, a transportation system that would allow passengers to travel at almost the speed of sound inside reduced-pressure tubes. Last year Musk announced a design competition for students and independent engineering teams to build Hyperloop pods and operate them on a […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (Reuters) — A group of students in South Florida have enrolled in 10-week intensive course at Wyncode, an accredited school that aims to transform people with little or no computer coding experience into programmers with enough knowledge to get a job in the growing technology sector. Until now, a job in technology would require a university degree in computer science. Wyncode promises their students that they can teach them enough to […]
by Anne KAURANEN Agence France-Presse HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — On the crowded morning metro in Helsinki, silence prevails. Everyone is hunched over their smartphone screens, reading the news, checking emails or watching videos. A loud “yeah!” breaks the quiet, along with delighted screech from a toddler whose mother has just handed him her smartphone to calm him down with a video. Finland, once a world leader in mobile telephony with Nokia, is in a class of […]
WROCLAW, Poland (Reuters) — Polish doctors have succeeded in transplanting a hand from a dead man to a 32-year-old man who was born without a hand, proving that transplants in cases of congenital deficiencies are also possible. Hand transplants have been improving since 1999, but surgeries have normally been performed in situations in which the patient had lost the limb in an accident. Doctors have always feared that the brain of a person born without […]
by Chloé COUPEAU Agence France-Presse 69576, France (AFP) – France on Thursday inaugurated the world’s first “solar highway”, a road paved with solar panels providing enough energy to power the street lights of the small Normandy town of Tourouvre. The one-kilometre (half-mile) “Wattway” covered with 2,800 square metres (30,000 square feet) of resin-coated solar panels was hooked up to the local power grid as Environment Minister Segolene Royal looked on. “This new use of solar […]
(REUTERS) – Japanese electronic parts maker TDK is shelling out $1.33 billion to buy InvenSense, a U.S. chip maker that produces motion sensors for Apple and Samsung. The deal comes at $13 per share, which is almost a twenty percent premium to the U.S. company’s closing price on Tuesday. It will help TDK boost its sensor technology offerings. InvenSense designs parts which help smartphones calculate motion, enabling augmented reality games, such as Pokemon Go. This […]
Ondrej Prusa, a 26-year old former DJ, has an enviable problem: his firm making three-dimensional printers is growing so fast he had to install a car-sized diesel generator to his downtown Prague plant to ease burden on the power network. Prusa became interested in printing in his DJ era when he needed to create sound controllers. He made adjustments to freely-available designs, and eventually set up his business. Prusa’s office is packed with colourful print […]
BALTIMORE, Maryland (Reuters) — A team at Johns Hopkins’ Department of Biology has discovered that a protein which helps neurons grow, known as ‘nerve growth factor’ (NGF), also triggers the release of insulin in the pancreas. Associate professor of biology Rejji Kuruvilla says the study may one day lead to early intervention in cases of Type 2 Diabetes. Kuruvilla began studying NGF as a post-doctoral fellow. When setting up her laboratory at Johns Hopkins in […]
Apple AirPods are displayed during a media event in San Francisco, California, U.S. on September 7, 2016. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach/File Photo
