Tag: quantum computing and cryptocurrency
Musk warns Twitter workers: Commit to ‘extremely hardcore’ work or get out
By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has given employees until Thursday evening to commit to “extremely hardcore” work or else leave the...
NC IDEA announces 20 grant recipients at annual event, putting $2.3M into NC economy
DURHAM – NC IDEA is deploying $2.3 million more into North Carolina’s startup ecosystems, announcing multiple grant awards at the conclusion of the private foundation’s...
Qatar: the land where one sports pitch needs 50,000 litres of desalinated water a day
This weekend, the FIFA World Cup kicks off in Qatar, as 32 nations compete in the month-long tournament for national football’s biggest trophy. FIFA,...
The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain
IntroductionTwo recent papers have shown that during a critical early period of brain development, the gut’s microbiome — the assortment of bacteria that grow...
Electrical Zaps Woke Up Dormant Neurons to Help Paralyzed People Walk Again
What was science fiction is now scientific reality: with a series of targeted electrical zaps to the spinal cord, nine paralyzed people immediately walked...
General neutron star structure revealed
Neutron stars are incredibly compact objects that can form after the death of a star. However, little is known about their interiors. Since their...
Long-lived hot electrons spotted in ‘wonder’ semiconductor
By combining scanning electron microscopy with ultrashort laser pulses, researchers in the US have shown that cubic boron arsenide has an important property that...
N.C. attorney general hails $391.5M settlement with Google over data privacy
Search giant Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations,...
CIFellows Spotlight: Gokul Subramanian Ravi
Gokul Subramanian Ravi
Gokul Subramanian Ravi began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving his PhD (focused on computer architecture) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Episode 102: Jen Hoar on Corporate Intelligence and Investigations
Nov 14, 2022In this OODAcast we interview one of our close friends and OODA
network members, Jen Hoar.Jen is a former journalist-turned-corporate investigator who has
leveraged...
NASA Will Buy Lunar Dust in the First Commercial Transaction on the Moon
Private companies are playing an ever greater role in space, in many cases with the blessing of national space agencies. Now Japan has issued...