Earlier this summer, physicians at NYU Langone were able to successfully transplant pig hearts into two recently-deceased humans. The medical team performed the procedures on June 16 and July 6, using special pig hearts that were genetically modified to be more acceptable for transplantation into a human body. Both the bodies were donated by recently…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Get it for free while you can — if you’re a Prime member. | Image: BioWare Amazon is giving away a whole bunch of free PC games for Prime members for Prime Day, so if you haven’t claimed them yet, you might want to check out what’s available before the shopping event concludes at the…
Yes, that’s a power meter in this USB-C cable that costs only a bit more than $15 right now. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge All kinds of stuff are on sale when Amazon Prime Day lasts two whole days. Here are some things we love, some of our favorites, and even some…
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Wednesday, a jury in New York convicted ex-Central Intelligence Agency engineer Joshua Schulte on all nine charges he faced (as first reported by @InnerCityPress) as a result of the single largest leak in agency history. Dubbed Vault 7, the files and information shared by WikiLeaks in…
Enlarge / Empty vials of the Novavax Inc. Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine arranged at the Tegel Vaccine Center in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, March 7, 2022. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg ) The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a long-awaited authorization for Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine. It is the fourth COVID-19 vaccine to gain authorization…
The 360 Invictus. Bell A traditional airplane gets the lift it needs to stay in the air from its wings. A helicopter, meanwhile, has large spinning rotor blades on top that provide lift, allowing it to do fantastic things, such as hover over the ocean and rescue someone at sea. But a sleek new prototype…
Arrival, the UK-based commercial EV company, plans to slash costs and cut as many as 30% of its workforce as it attempts to protect the business from a challenging economic environment while meeting its production targets. The company, which went public last year via a merger with a special purposed acquisition company, said the restructuring plan …
Panasonic said Wednesday it plans to build the world’s largest EV battery plant, a $4 billion factory in Kansas that will manufacture and supply lithium-ion batteries to EV makers. The factory is slated to be larger than the Gigafactory it operates with Tesla in Sparks, Nevada, which is already one of the largest lithium-ion battery…
Uber is being sued by 550 women passengers across the U.S. who have alleged they were assaulted by drivers on the platform. The complaint, which was filed in San Francisco County Superior Court on Wednesday by attorneys at Slater Slater Schulman LLP, alleges that passengers were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked,…
Andrej Karpathy, the deep learning and computer vision expert who was hired five years ago as Tesla’s director of AI and led Autopilot vision team, is officially leaving the company. Karpathy was on a four-month leave of absence, fueling widespread speculation as to whether he would return. In a tweet posted Wednesday afternoon, Karparthy wrote…