- A Toddler May Have Been Cured of HIV Infection
An accidental discovery in pediatric HIV treatment may one day save others born into infection.
Scientists with the National Institutes of Health announced on Sunday that a two-year-old child infected with HIV at birth had no signs of active virus despite being off anti-retroviral medication for nearly a year.
- Sun Catalytix Seeks Second Act with Flow Battery
The MIT spin-off had hoped to enable the hydrogen economy in developing countries, but is now at work on a flow battery using “designer molecules.”
MIT spin-off Sun Catalytix has had to put its bold vision of enabling the hydrogen economy on hold. But it still has aggressive technical goals.
- Global E-mail Patterns Reveal "Clash of Civilizations"
The global pattern of e-mail communication reflects the cultural fault lines thought to determine future conflict, say computational social scientists.
- Is This Why Google Doesn’t Want You to Drive?
Getting you to take your eyes off the road could be worth billions in new search revenue to Google.
Google has never said exactly how it will make money off the self-driving vehicles it has been developing. Will it manufacture cars? Try to become the operating system for our highways?
- Micro 3-D Printer Creates Tiny Structures in Seconds
Faster printing could see the technology move from research labs to industry.
Nanoscribe, a spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, has developed a tabletop 3-D microprinter that can create complicated microstructures 100 times faster than is possible today. “If something took one hour to make, it now takes less than one minute,” says Michael Thiel, chief scientific officer at Nanoscribe.
- Graphene Antennas Would Enable Terabit Wireless Downloads
Researchers calculate the potential of using graphene for ultrafast wireless communications.
Want to wirelessly upload hundreds of movies to a mobile device in a few seconds? Researchers at Georgia Tech have drawn up blueprints for a wireless antenna made from atom-thin sheets of carbon, or graphene, that could allow terabit-per-second transfer speeds at short ranges.
- Military Malware May Have Killed the iPhone Jailbreak
Malware developers will pay large sums for the bugs needed to loosen Apple’s software restrictions.
Since the debut of the first iPhone, Apple has played a cat-and-mouse game with hackers who want to install “unofficial” software onto their locked-down devices. That game may be about to end thanks to the booming business in state-backed malware.
- Samsung's "Eye Scroll" Hints at Post-Interactive Interfaces
What if the future of human-computer interaction had a lot less interaction in it?
The best essay on human-computer interaction I’ve read this year was a fake news piece in The Onion. Its title: “Internet Users Demand Less Interactivity.” What if people just “want to visit websites and look at them”? What if “using” a piece of software is simply not what we want to do with it, most of the time?
- The 12-Digit Number the Tech Industry Needs to Watch
Apple’s ridiculously large pile of cash is begging to be put to a use other than getting Wall Street off the company’s back.
No company is in a better position to reshape electronics and Internet media than Apple—but not necessarily because of its design genius or engineering prowess. It’s because of Apple’s wallet.
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