The Guardian reports on the “world’s first production-ready solar car”, a streamlined and energy-efficient sedan-style vehicle covered with curved solar panels called “the Lightyear 0.” The Dutch company Lightyear hopes to be shipping the vehicle by November, priced at about $264,000 (€250,000 or £215,000) — though the company plans another Read more…
SFGate calls it “the most technologically advanced ride Disney has ever opened.” The 18-minute journey involves a secret rebel base, interrogation from the First Order, uncomfortably close brushes with Kylo Ren and a daring rescue mission, and has sophisticated animatronics and a trackless ride system unlike anything else currently in Read more…
A single MRI scan of the brain could be enough to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research by Imperial College London. The research uses machine learning technology to look at structural features within the brain, including in regions not previously associated with Alzheimer’s. The advantage of the technique is Read more…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “the first full-scale battle in which traditional and cyberweapons have been used side by side,” reports the New York Times. But the biggest surprise is that “many of the attacks were thwarted, or there was enough redundancy built into the Ukrainian networks that the efforts Read more…
LinkedIn recently added ‘dyslexic thinking’ as an official skill. And now the U.K. national newspaper the Telegraph reports on scientists arguing that dyslexia is not a “disorder” — but an evolutionarily beneficial willingness to explore: The experts suggested that dyslexia, which causes difficulty reading, writing and spelling, is a useful Read more…
For Stack Overflow’s annual survey, “Over 73,000 developers from 180 countries each spent roughly 15 minutes answering our questions,” a blog post announces: The top five languages for professional developers haven’t changed: JavaScript is still the most used, and Rust is the most loved for a seventh year. The big Read more…
Female scientists are less likely to receive authorship credit or to be named on patents related to the work they do compared with their male counterparts — including in fields such as healthcare, where women dominate — data suggests. This gender gap may help to explain well-documented disparities in the Read more…