by Laurent BARTHELEMY BEIJING, China (AFP) — Ray Tomlinson, the US programmer credited with inventing email in the 1970s and choosing the “@” symbol for the messaging system, died at the age of 74, his employer said Sunday. Tomlinson invented direct electronic messages in 1971. Before his invention, users could only write messages to others on a limited network. “A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days […]
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Smart band-aids on the horizon
Wearable electronics will revolutionize the way doctors diagnose and treat patients, according to researchers at MIT, who are developing stretchable hydrogels that share many of the same properties of human tissue. “Hydrogel is a polymer network infiltrated with water. Even though it is only 5 to 10 percent polymer, this network is extremely important,” said Xuanhe Zhao, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The polymer network Zhao and […]
