A Lisbon lab is turning dead bacteria into dog treats. Next up: Human snacks

“Microbial protein,” says Katelijne Bekers, waving a vial of beige-coloured powder in front of me like it’s a magic potion. It doesn’t look like your typical lunch fare, but this…

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Operator XR Secures $3.7M VR Training Contract with Texas Department of Public Safety

Image courtesy xReality Group, Operator XR Australian immersive training technology company xReality Group announced its subsidiary Operator XR has secured a contract with the Texas Department of Public Safety (Texas…

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Google’s ‘Genie 3’ Interactive Generative Video Model Takes Us One Step Closer to the Holodeck

Image courtesy Google DeepMind DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced the release of Genie 3, a new AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in real-time—and bringing us one step…

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Stem cell startup proclaims ‘inflection point’ for medicine as mass production nears

It’s harvest day at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. As sunshine bathes the leafy university campus, scientists inside the labs work under cool fluorescent light. Clad in green protective gear,…

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Hands-on: ‘Clone Drone’ Gets Endless ‘Skyscrapper’ Update July 27th, Bringing a Ton of New Content

Clone Drone in the Hyperdome (2024) is pretty amazing on its own, offering up enough frangible voxel-baddies to swing a katana at across its Crashloop story mode. Coming July 27th, Clone…

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Denmark taps Microsoft to build world’s most powerful quantum computer

Denmark is aiming to stake a bold claim in the global quantum race with plans to build the world’s most powerful quantum computer. Backed by €80mn from EIFO (Denmark’s export…

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