Author Archives: Rana Shakoor Akbar

No one can make that choice for you. But I can say with confidence born of experience that such choices can be more easily made if workers know what exactly the companies they work for are doing with militaries at home and abroad. And I also know this: those same companies themselves will never reveal […]

The work I wrote about last year is part of the $3 billion federally funded Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, which launched in 2013. In this project, led by the Allen Institute for Brain Science, which has developed a number of brain atlases, researchers are working to develop a parts list detailing […]

Cutting emissions and remaking our economy will require buckling down to deploy and maintain solutions that we already know work, whether that’s in transportation or any other sector. For EV charging, and for climate technology as a whole, we need more than Tesla. Here’s hoping we can get it.  Related reading Perhaps the single biggest […]

The Steam Deck from Valve is a well-made device that has had a lot of research time and care put into it. However, just like any complex electronic gadget, things can go wrong. So, what do you do when your Steam Deck won’t turn on. We’ve seen similar issues on hundreds of devices over the […]

But bovines may not be far behind. There’s a large assisted-reproduction industry in cattle, with more than a million IVF attempts a year, half of them in North America. Many other beef and dairy cattle are artificially inseminated with semen from top-rated bulls. “Cattle is harder,” says Jiang. “But we have all the technology.” Inspecting […]

AI is all the rage, and Spotify is on trend with Spotify DJ, an AI-powered feature that ramps up your listening experience with playlists tailored to your tastes. This troubleshooting guide shows you what to do if you can’t find Spotify DJ on your iPhone or Android. 1. Check for Region Support Spotify DJ is […]

Personalized cancer vaccines like the ones Moderna and BioNTech are developing are tailored to each patient’s particular cancer. The researchers collect a piece of the patient’s tumor and a sample of healthy cells. They sequence these two samples and compare them in order to identify mutations that are specific to the tumor. Those mutations are […]