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In the outpouring of 2021, Cynthia and John Grano, who ain a cattle cognition successful Culpeper County, Virginia, started noticing immoderate of their cows slowing down and acting “spacey.” They figured the animals were suffering from a communal infectious illness that causes anemia successful cattle. But their veterinarian had warned them that different illness carried by a parasite was spreading rapidly successful the area.
After a 3rd cattle died, the Granos decided to trial its blood. Sure enough, the trial came backmost affirmative for the disease: theileria. And with nary attraction available, the cows kept dying.
Cattle owners similar the Granos are not alone. Livestock producers astir the US are confronting this caller and unfamiliar illness without overmuch information. Researchers inactive don’t cognize however theileria volition unfold, adjacent arsenic it rapidly spreads westbound crossed the country. If states can’t get the illness nether control, past nationwide accumulation losses from sick cows could importantly harm some idiosyncratic operations and the full industry. Read the afloat story.
—Britta Lokting
Super-hot brackish could beryllium coming to a artillery adjacent you
The satellite is gathering much capableness for renewables, particularly star and upwind powerfulness that travel and spell with the weather. But for renewables to marque a existent difference, we request amended options for storing energy. That’s wherever batteries travel in. And handily, there’s a question of alternate chemistries dilatory percolating into the increasing vigor retention market.
Some of these caller players could yet beryllium cheaper (and successful assorted ways, better) than the industry-standard lithium-ion batteries. Among the astir promising is molten brackish technology, which Ambri, a Boston-area startup, is convinced could beryllium up to 50% cheaper implicit its beingness than an equivalent lithium-ion system.
But, similar its rivals experimenting with different forms of vigor storage, Ambri is facing existent barriers to adoption, with scaling presenting the main, ever-present hurdle. Read the afloat story.
—Casey Crownhart
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the net to find you today’s astir fun/important/scary/fascinating stories astir technology.
1 What comes aft Twitter?
Whatever the answer, downloading information and contacts is simply a astute move. (NYT $)
+ It’s unlikely, however, that you'll beryllium capable to prevention everything. (Wired $)
+ A load of fired contractors aren’t readying connected going quietly. (Bloomberg $)
+ One of its erstwhile information scientists is highly worried. (Rest of World)
+ Twitter’s imaginable illness could hitch retired immense records of caller quality history. (MIT Technology Review)
2 The ripple effects of FTX’s collapse
The crypto exchange’s mediocre practices are triggering fears astir the industry’s future—and its employees are furious. (WSJ $)
+ Sam Bankman-Fried had an ill-advised chat with a writer implicit Twitter. (Vox)
+ A people enactment has been filed against FTX successful the US. (The Guardian)
3 The US’s bioweapon detection strategy is unreliable
20 years aft its introduction, it inactive costs $80 cardinal a year. (The Verge)
4 Telehealth sites are riddled with information trackers
They could uncover delicate addiction accusation that’s ripe for abuse. (Wired $)
5 Activision Blizzard’s games are being pulled offline successful China
It’s been incapable to onslaught a woody with its Chinese distributor. (FT $)
6 Intel thinks it tin drawback deepfakes with 96% accuracy
By tracking the “blood flow” of video pixels to observe surviving humans. (VentureBeat)
+ A horrifying AI app swaps women into porn videos with a click. (MIT Technology Review)
7 We’ve ignored concrete’s c footprint for excessively long
It’s not arsenic large a polluter arsenic transport oregon energy, but it’s successful urgent request of a greener overhaul. (Knowable Magazine)
+ How Joe Biden got distant with passing the IRA. (The Atlantic $)
+ How hydrogen and energy tin cleanable up dense industry. (MIT Technology Review)
8 Lab-grown nutrient is harmless to devour 🍗
The FDA has greenish lit lab-grown chicken—but it needs to walk different tests earlier it tin beryllium sold. (NBC News)
+ Will lab-grown nutrient scope our plates? (MIT Technology Review)
9 Why NASA’s astronauts aren’t allowed to TikTok from abstraction 🪐
Even though their European counterparts are. (Vox)
+ NASA’s Artemis 1 motorboat was an oddly muted affair. (The Atlantic $)
+ Here’s everything the ngo is taking with it to the moon. (IEEE Spectrum)
10 We could hitch a thrust connected a flying taxi 1 time 🚁
By the extremity of the decade, apparently. Let’s see. (Economist $)
Quote of the day
“Ireland truly stake the workplace connected the aboriginal of tech . . . almost astatine the disbursal of everything else.”
—Mark O’Connell, enforcement seat and laminitis of OCO Global, a commercialized and concern focused advisory firm, tells the Financial Times wherefore the tech sector’s wide occupation cuts volition deed Ireland peculiarly hard.
The large story
Bright LEDs could spell the extremity of acheronian skies
August 2022
Scientists person known for years that airy contamination is increasing and tin harm some humans and wildlife. In people, accrued vulnerability to airy astatine nighttime disrupts slumber cycles and has been linked to crab and cardiovascular disease, portion wildlife suffers from interruption to their reproductive patterns, accrued information and nonaccomplishment of stealth.
Astronomers, policymakers, and lighting professionals are each moving to find ways to trim airy pollution. Many of them advocator installing light-emitting diodes, oregon LEDs, successful outdoor fixtures specified arsenic metropolis streetlights, chiefly for their quality to nonstop airy to a targeted area. But the precocious archetypal concern and durability of modern LEDs mean cities request to get the modulation close the archetypal clip oregon perchance look decades of consequences. Read the afloat story.
—Shel Evergreen
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A spot for comfort, amusive and distraction successful these weird times. (Got immoderate ideas? Drop maine a line or tweet 'em astatine me.)
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