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Plus: Graffiti-fighting drones, Formula 1 driver goes head to head with self-driving cars, hearing with a brain-computer interface, why robots can't outrun animals, and more.
“If we look at the history of the development of technology, generally every great breakthrough in science or technology has emerged from material innovation. At Gelatex, we’d like to think the next great breakthrough in human technology will come from synthetic biology, expedited by mammalian cell culture. If we can accurately control how cells are growing out and forming tissues, then we can do it in a scalable, cost-effective, reliable manner which opens up so many different opportunities we cannot even imagine.”
The Big Picture
“More concerning, though, is China’s interest in noninvasive BCIs for the general population. Hannas coauthored a report released in March that examines Chinese research on BCIs for nonmedical purposes. ‘China is not the least bit shy about this,’ he says, referring to ethical guidelines released by the Communist Party in February 2024 that include cognitive enhancement of healthy people as a goal of Chinese BCI research. A translation of the guidelines by CSET says, ‘Nonmedical purposes such as attention modulation, sleep regulation, memory regulation, and exoskeletons for augmentative BCI technologies should be explored and developed to a certain extent, provided there is strict regulation and clear benefit.’” (Wired)
Deep Tech News
JPEG of the Week
The Canadian underground laboratory SNOLAB has the world's lowest flux of muons, which are particles formed when cosmic rays reach the Earth's atmosphere.
A recently discovered cause of errors in quantum computers is cosmic radiation. Highly charged particles from space disturb the sensitive qubits and cause them to lose their quantum state, as well as the ability to continue a calculation. But now quantum researchers from Sweden and Canada will join forces to find a solution to the problem—in the world's deepest located clean room, two kilometers underground. (via Phys.org)
Peer Review
CERN gives green light to build new experiment to search for unknown particles
Researchers build new device that is a foundation for quantum computing
mRNA cancer vaccine reprograms immune system to tackle glioblastoma in 48 hours
Here’s why we should put a gravitational wave observatory on the moon
Nano-drugs hitching a ride on bacteria could help treat pancreatic cancer
Funding x M&A
Tether buys $200M majority stake in brain-computer interface company
$17.5M to build domestic supply chain for critical minerals and materials
Blaize, an AI computing developer providing edge computing solutions, raised $106M in funding
Thintronics, an electronic materials startup, raised a $23M Series A
AI cloud infrastructure startup CoreWeave raised a $1.1B round at a $19B valuation
Stargate Hydrogen, a startup providing green hydrogen solutions, raised a $47M seed round
World View, a global leader in stratospheric exploration and flight, raised $25M in funding
Miscellanea
New graffiti-fighting drone being tested in Washington State / Missing satellite found after 25 years of being lost in space / ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ charged in $50M tax fraud / Engineer ‘builds GPU from scratch’ in two weeks / Early Bitcoin investor Roger Ver charged with tax fraud / Judge in Seattle sentences Changpeng Zhao, crypto mogul, to 4 months in prison / Will human soldiers ever trust their robot comrades? / Behold the world’s largest 3D printer / China’s moon atlas is the most detailed ever made / Deepest blue hole in the world discovered. Scientists still haven’t found the bottom / DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say / Humanoid robots are learning to fall well / The first-ever race between four self-driving cars and a Formula 1 driver just happened in Abu Dhabi / A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp / AI-powered cameras installed on Metro buses to ticket illegally parked cars / NASA lays out how SpaceX will refuel Starships in low-Earth orbit / The California man who hid for 6 months in a secret room inside Circuit City
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