Blog Posts
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Forget the titanium Apple Card — Amazon’s latest payment method uses flesh and blood. The e-tailing giant’s engineers are quietly testing scanners that can identify an individual human hand as a way to ring up a store purchase, with the goal of rolling them out at its Whole Foods supermarket chain in the coming months.…
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Robert Kearns, 35, who had a blind left eye, had trouble seeing the road with traditional windscreen wipers. In 1962, he had a brainstorm… “what if a windshield wiper paused between each wipe, like a blinking eye? At this time, wipers only had two settings (one for light rain and one for heavy rain). At…
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While death is inevitable, knowing when it will come is usually more difficult to predict. Scientists have been trying to develop a test that could reliably and easily predict how long a person will live, or, more technically, how healthy they are and therefore how vulnerable they might be to major mortality risk factors. Blood tests are the most…
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T-cells extracted from a tumor, expanded and then re-introduced into the body have resulted in the disappearance of tumors in a woman with metastatic breast cancer. Research published in Nature Medicine by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has described a new immunotherapy approach, which led to a complete disappearance of tumors in a woman with…
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Blockchain (Distributed Ledger Technology) was created by the release of Bitcoin. Blockchain (not Bitcoin) is a revolutionary technology that will become so enmeshed in society over the coming decades that your grandchildren will ask, “how the hell did you survive without blockchain?” Today’s children can’t fathom how we grew up without the internet, WiFi, smartphones…