That is at present’s version of The Download, our weekday e-newsletter that gives a day by day dose of what’s happening on this planet of expertise.
What’s subsequent for quantum computing
For years, quantum’s information cycle was dominated by headlines about record-setting methods. However this 12 months, researchers are getting off the hype prepare and knuckling right down to life in the actual world—bucking the development of packing processors with ever extra quantum bits, or “qubits,” in favor of fewer, however greater high quality qubits.
Corporations are additionally asserting new chips designed to attach immediately to one another. It’s a transfer that’s anticipated to speed up the shift towards “modular” quantum computer systems—and assist the machines to scale up considerably within the course of. Read the full story.
—Michael Brooks
How medication that hack our circadian clocks may someday enhance our well being
We’ve obtained multiple organic clock. Past the one which marches onwards as we age, the circadian clock that sits in our brains retains our our bodies in rhythm. This clock helps management after we wake, eat, and sleep.
However there’s extra to it than that. It additionally controls the finer elements of how our our bodies work, by influencing tons of of molecular clocks all through our cells and organs, from regulating our metabolisms to controlling how our genes make proteins.
Now scientists are engaged on methods to tailor remedies to our circadian rhythms. Medicine that particularly goal the clocks themselves are being explored within the lab. Will we someday be capable of hack our circadian clocks to enhance our well being? Read the full story.
—Jessica Hamzelou
This story is from The Checkup, Jessica’s weekly e-newsletter providing you with the within monitor on all issues biotech. Sign up to obtain it in your inbox each Thursday.
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to seek out you at present’s most enjoyable/essential/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.
1 A brand new covid subvariant is sweeping throughout the US
However there’s no proof to recommend it’s extra extreme than its predecessors. (The Atlantic $)
+ The WHO mentioned it’s monitoring its unfold intently. (Sky News)
+ Demand for covid medication is hovering on China’s black market. (Rest of World)
+ The European Union “strongly” recommends member states check arrivals from China. (BBC)
2 Former Twitter employees are nonetheless ready for severance pay
A lot of them have been ready for over two months. (Bloomberg $)
+ Hackers have shared 200 million Twitter customers’ information. (The Register)
+ We’re witnessing the mind demise of Twitter. (MIT Technology Review)
3 It’s unlikely that Celsius clients will get their a refund
Sadly for them, they didn’t actually personal most of their cryptocurrency—the collapsed lender did. (WP $)
+ New York’s lawyer basic is suing Celsius’s founder. (NYT $)
4 Taiwan desires to construct its personal satellite tv for pc community
In a bid to safeguard the nation from potential assaults from China. (FT $)
+ Satellite tv for pc-to-mobile telephones are gaining traction at this 12 months’s CES. (WSJ $)
5Two Wikipedia directors have been jailed in Saudi Arabia
In a draconian try to regulate the web site’s data across the nation. (The Guardian)
6 Inside Fb’s political nightmare
Demoting “delicate” newsfeed matters was removed from easy crusing. (WSJ $)
+ Meta administration shifting abroad has been a headache, too. (The Information $)
7 Encouraging individuals to donate kidneys is hard
Providing donors a monetary incentive is one answer to reducing ready lists. (Wired $)
8 Bionic penile implants may assist deal with erectile dysfunction
Pigs with injured penises that obtained synthetic tissue patches have been in a position to expertise regular erections. (Motherboard)
+ Meet the wounded veteran who obtained a penis transplant. (MIT Technology Review)
9 How tech lovers adapt to life off-grid 
It’s time to put money into a wind turbine! (The Next Web)
10 How meme-themed piñatas took off 
Political and social media-themed designs are particularly standard. (Rest of World)
Quote of the day
“The best danger shouldn’t be taking one.”
—A quote from the web site of Alex Mashinsky, the CEO of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Community, who stands accused of getting defrauded buyers out of billions of {dollars}, Reuters experiences.
The massive story
Your first lab-grown burger is coming quickly—and it’ll be “blended”
December 2020
One cool fall night time in 2010, Jessica Krieger was horrified by a documentary that confirmed the ugly methods animals are slaughtered for meals. Then an undergrad in neuroscience, she threw herself into what on the time was a fringe space of biotech analysis: rising and harvesting edible animal cells with out killing any sentient creatures.
Whereas lab-grown meat was busy looking for its method out of the petri dish, plant-based meat substitutes have been present process a revolution. However reasonably than treating their success as a risk, Krieger and various different entrepreneurs see it because the opening they should lastly carry their creations to market—within the type of “blended meat,” melding the perfect of the plant-based and cultured-meat substitutes. And it won’t be lengthy earlier than you get an opportunity to style it. Read the full story.
—Niall Firth
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