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“You can officially control an Apple device with your thoughts, as long as you have the Stentrode brain implant made by NYC-based Synchron. First announced in May, the capability connects brain-computer interfaces (BCI) to Apple products through a Bluetooth connection. It works with iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS, so that means iPads, iPhones, and the Vision Pro can recognize a BCI just like a keyboard or mouse. Apple designed it to be a standard connection for all implants, including Elon Musk's Neuralink, but Synchron is the first to offer the capability to its patients.”

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“In 1983, the octogenarian geneticist Barbara McClintock stood at the lectern of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. She was famously publicity averse — nearly a hermit — but it’s customary for people to speak when they’re awarded a Nobel Prize, so she delivered a halting account of the experiments that had led to her discovery, in the early 1950s, of how DNA sequences can relocate across the genome. Near the end of the speech, blinking through wire-framed glasses, she changed the subject, asking: ‘What does a cell know of itself?’... Forty years later, McClintock’s question hasn’t lost its potency.”

“Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds. For decades, scientists have often seen glaciers coated in dust on the slopes of the mountains of Mars. Previous research suggested these were either glaciers that were comprised mostly of rock and as little as 30% ice, or debris-covered glaciers that were more than 80% ice… To shed light on the composition of these glaciers, researchers used the shallow radar instrument (SHARAD) onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to analyze five sites on Mars.”

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“Footage taken by a passenger shows a Tesla Robotaxi getting totally stumped as it tries to escape a parking lot, aimlessly driving in circles while its human ‘safety monitor’ sits bored in the front passenger seat, doing nothing to intervene. Ladies and gentlemen: the self-driving software that Elon Musk says will be piloting millions of cars by the end of next year. The video was uploaded by Dan Burkland, a self-described EV enthusiast. In a tweet, he explained that he ‘threw a curveball’ at the robotaxi by having it pick him up in a busy parking lot where the normal exit had been blocked by traffic cones.”