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Hydrogen And Asteroid Impacts May Have Aided Life On Ancient Mars

Posted in Science on 26th Mar, 2019
by Alex Muller

Data from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover were used in a new paper studying how asteroids impacting the ancient Martian atmosphere could have produced key ingredients to life

Close To 10% Of U.K. Jobs At Risk From Automation, But It’s Not All Bad News

Posted in Business, Hardware, Software on 25th Mar, 2019
by Alex Muller

ONS forecasts that service workers, chiefly waiters and waitresses, retail inventory restockers, and entry-level salespeople, will be disproportionately affected; it reports that 25.3 percent of supermarket checkout jobs disappeared between 2011 and 2017.

Apple Debuts Apple Card To Transform The Credit Card Experience

Posted in Business on 25th Mar, 2019
by Alex Muller

iPhone users are already using Apple’s Wallet app, Apple Pay, and Apple Pay Cash: wouldn’t they like an Apple credit card, too?

China And Europe Hope To Be 15 Years Behind SpaceX On Reusable Rockets

Posted in Business, Hardware, Science on 9th Mar, 2019
by Alex Muller

As the price leader, SpaceX will probably be getting most of the launch business in the future.

Google Introduces TensorFlow Privacy, A Machine Learning Library With ‘strong Privacy Guarantees’

Posted in Software on 7th Mar, 2019
by Alex Muller

Google announced TensorFlow Privacy, a library for its TensorFlow machine learning framework intended to make it easier for developers to train AI models with strong privacy guarantees.

Deep Sleep May Be Crucial In Clearing Toxic Alzheimer’s Proteins From The Brain

Posted in Medicine on 2nd Mar, 2019
by Alex Muller

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Search To Uncover Genetic Secrets Of Sarcoma

Posted in Highlights from UCL, Medicine on 17th Feb, 2019
by Alex Muller

Sarcoma Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership (GeCIP), aims to find answers to some of the most fundamental questions about this type of cancer.

Advancing Personalized Medicine Research With Open Access Genomic Data

Posted in Highlights from UCL, Science on 17th Feb, 2019
by Alex Muller

Since the sequencing of the first human genome back in 2001 rapid advances in technology have transformed our ability to gather and analyse genomic data.

New Drug Target To Control Onset Of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Posted in Highlights from UCL, Medicine on 17th Feb, 2019
by Alex Muller

UCL researchers have discovered a new checkpoint that prevents a certain type of cell death from occurring.

Apple And Samsung Hardest Hit As Smartphone Production Falls But 5G Phones Could Save 2019

Posted in Hardware on 19th Jan, 2019
by Alex Muller

Smartphone production in the first quarter of this year is expected to drop 19 percent as China and world markets slow.

SpaceX Orbital Starship Prototype Built By June 2019 And Orbital Launch Might Be In 2019

Posted in Hardware on 19th Jan, 2019
by Alex Muller

Elon Musk has tweeted that the first orbital Starship upper stage prototype should be completed by June 2019.

China Lands Chang'e 4 On The Far Side Of The Moon

Posted in Science on 5th Jan, 2019
by Alex Muller

A Chinese spacecraft on Thursday made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon.