3 place 0
"A DNA-editing feat involving editing the genes of early stage embryos was announced this week," reports the Wall Street Journal.
They describe the feat as "a far cry from designer babies, but nevertheless a step in that direction."
Dieter Egli, an associate professor of developmental cell biology at Columbia University and his co-authors, including Nathan Treff of Nucleus Genomics, a New York-based DNA-testing startup, say the technology could help fix disease-causing mutations in embryos. "We're not th
A newsletter a day!
You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
Slashdot
An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
0
A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
0
My kids kept talking about a summer filled with sleeping in and video games. I created a schedule with chores and fun, and we do the chores first. Read more ›
0 fresh
Не столь давно супруга попросила меня перелить записи со своей GoPro на мой ноутбук. Когда-то, когда камеры были по сути обычными USB-флешками с FAT это ни у кого не вызывало проблем, а вот с MTP-устройствами бывает и так:На этом месте можно было взять Android File Transfer for Linux и перелить через него - но я упертый, и решил разобраться в ситуации.Тех, кому интересно узнать, что было дальше, а заодно и... Read more ›
0 fresh
Whether you need a tent, sleeping pad, rain jacket, or new pack, REI’s Independence Day sale has something for everyone. Read more ›
0 fresh
Enthusiast demos Microsoft’s newest OS running 'completely stable' on a Core 2 Quad Q6600, using a DDR1 motherboard, supported by an ATi Radeon HD 4650 AGP graphics card. Read more ›
0 fresh
All the ways to watch Barbarians vs Wales live streams – including for FREE – with Welsh icon George North set to represent the Baa-Baas at Twickenham. Read more ›
0 fresh
You may eat fiber for gut health, but it plays many crucial roles in the body, from lowering cholesterol to helping to control glucose levels. Read more ›
0 fresh
Провели аудит рынка и подготовила свежий дайджест лучших платформ-мультитулов, актуальный на июнь 2026 года. В этот рейтинг вошли как масштабируемые B2B-решения для enterprise-сегмента и программистов, так и максимально дружелюбные веб-ресурсы для рутинной работы авторов, digital-специалистов, художников и учащихся. Ниже мы детально разберем специфику работы с нейросетями в России, подскажем, где активировать бесплатные тестовые периоды, и поможем подобрать оптимальный хаб под ваш пул задач. Читать далее Read more ›
0 fresh
DoorDash's AI tool "Ask DoorDash" aims to simplify grocery shopping by allowing users to order ingredients from recipes. Read more ›
0 fresh
![[Перевод] Когда AOL перестал работать (1996)](https://times42.com/media/7/2/3/12643723_640x200.jpg "[Перевод] Когда AOL перестал работать (1996)")
Представьте, что вы перенеслись в 7 августа 1996 года. Закройте глаза и вообразите мир, где напряжённость в отношениях с Россией, Китаем и Ближним Востоком высока, люди обеспокоены технологическим пузырём, а брюки-клёш снова в моде. Трудно представить, я знаю. Читать далее Read more ›
0 fresh
As of 2025, the cars on the road in the U.S. are an average of 14.5 years old, up from 8.9 in 2000 - and there are a couple of factors that have caused this. Read more ›
0 fresh
Apple is seeking clearance from the Trump administration to buy chips from a company linked to the Chinese military, according to Financial Times. Read more ›
0 fresh
Warren Buffett, Tim Cook, Bob Iger, and Doug McMillon are making way for nuts-and-bolts leaders, but success will require more than an eye for detail. Read more ›
0 fresh
A cardiologist said popular "healthy" foods can actually be bad for your heart, since they're highly processed and full of additives like sugar and fat. Read more ›
0 fresh
We asked startup founders, recruiters, and hiring managers what to do — and not to do — to boost your chances of getting an offer. Read more ›
0 fresh
Many people now in their fifties, sixties, and seventies grew up in homes where the emotional weather changed from one evening to the next, and where a child learned, by necessity, to read the signs of a parent’s mood before the parent had said a word. Footsteps in the hall were one of those signs. ... Read more Read more ›
0 fresh
В контексте роботизации городов обычно обсуждают энергоэффективность, полностью беспилотное движение и автономные сады. Но в реальном мире проблемы всплывают совсем в других плоскостях.Роботы-доставщики уже стали привычной частью городского пейзажа. В Лос-Анджелесе по улицам одновременно ездят сотни автономных курьеров компаний Serve Robotics и Coco Robotics. Они развозят еду, объезжают прохожих, стоят на светофорах и даже просят людей нажать кнопку перехода, поскольку сами этого сделать не могут. И чем бол Read more ›
0 fresh
Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Student loan borrowers who enroll in automatic payments will get a much bigger discount on interest starting July 1, the U.S. Department of Education says. Auto pay has long offered a modest discount off borrowers' interest rate -- .25 percentage points -- but after millions of borrowers opted out during the long COVID repayment pause, with some making no payments for years,... Read more ›
0
The Free Software Foundation's GNU Savannah hosts thousands of free software projects — both GNU and non-GNU projects, including Drupal. But in early May, security researchers from Hacktron.AI reported vulnerabilities and demonstrated an exploit, according to a new statement Friday from the FSF: We have been working with these researchers since their initial report, and have also addressed additional security issues they submitted. All reported issues have been patched thanks... Read more ›
0
Ars Technica's senior security editor reports: Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers. The company named the worm Crypto Clipper because it monitors the contents of device clipboards for patterns consistent with wallet addresses or seed phrases. When found, the malware also takes five screenshots over a 10-second period... "The execution of... Read more ›
0
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published over 800 technical standards over the years (as a professional association for the media and entertainment industry). But this week SMPTE "announced that its complete Standards catalog, the technical backbone behind everything from SDI and timecode to IP-based broadcast workflows, is now freely available to anyone in the global media technology community," reports the filmmaking news site CineD, arguing it's... Read more ›
0
CNN reports: An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said. Devices lit up with the word "misantropi4," an alphanumeric spelling of the Portuguese word "misantropia," which in English translates to "misanthropy". The final letter "a" was substituted with a number '4' — a practice often... Read more ›
0
CNBC reports: Waymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues after some cars drove into freeway construction zones, according to notices filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The voluntary recall, the Alphabet-owned company's second in just over a month, followed 13 known incidents where Waymo robotaxis drove into construction zones on freeways in Phoenix, or entered freeway lanes with active construction in the... Read more ›
0
Long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely started his career at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Last month 73-year-old Cringely explained why his site went on a two-year hiatus — and it's not just because of a heart attack and a stroke last July: Just like everyone else, I've been busy all this time on Artificial Intelligence, founding with two partners a company called 2Brains... The work we were... Read more ›
0
Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers for his assistant Donald Bayley who held onto the papers until his death in 2020, reveal Turning had produced a working model of a portable voice encryption device. He... Read more ›
0
This week OpenAI announced a 750-task test to to measure "whether AI systems can support realistic life science research tasks, not just answer biology questions." But while OpenAI's top-performing GPT-Rosalind model led the rankings, Slashdot reader BrianFagioli notes that "it achieved a pass rate of just 36.1 percent, failing nearly two-thirds of benchmark tasks." Nerds.xyz points out that means "the best-performing model failed nearly two-thirds of the benchmark's tasks." The... Read more ›
0
The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them "can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone... can surf the web as if they were you." (And this is especially true for "knockoffs that you buy online"...) In a video report this week they tested two digital picture frames from Amazon and three streaming... Read more ›
0
Most popular sources
ScienceDaily
|
0% |
ReadWrite
|
0% |
UK Tech News
|
0% |
EU-Startups
|
0% |
Tech.eu
|
0% |
| View sources » | |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
27.06.2026 06:37
Last update: 06:30 EDT.
News rating updated: 13:30.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.
