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An overview of crisis in India's telecom sector, after a Supreme Court ruling that sided with the government saddled mobile carriers with $13B in fresh debt (Nallur Sethuraman/Reuters)

Nallur Sethuraman / Reuters: An overview of crisis in India’s telecom sector, after a Supreme Court ruling that sided with the government saddled mobile carriers with $13B in fresh debt  —  (Reuters) – India’s telecoms sector has been rocked by a Supreme Court ruling last month that sided with the government in a dispute …

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Biosensor-equipped glasses could monitor diabetes through tears

Brazilian and US scientists have developed a glasses-based biosensor capable of measuring blood glucose levels through a person’s tears, offering a less invasive test for diabetics. Glucose levels need to be frequently monitored in people with diabetes, a disease that affects 62 million people in the Americas and 380 million worldwide. According to the World Health Organization

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Robot vs. Superbug

Working in a university or research laboratory on interesting, complicated problems in the sciences has a romanticized, glorified position in our culture. While the end results are certainly worth celebrating, often the process of new scientific discovery is underwhelming, if not outright tedious. That’s especially true in biology and chemistry, where scaling up sample sizes

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With chips like Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, AMD is now comfortably beating Intel in the high-end desktop/workstation CPU market, and is getting further ahead (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Steve Dent / Engadget: With chips like Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, AMD is now comfortably beating Intel in the high-end desktop/workstation CPU market, and is getting further ahead  —  When AMD launched its third-generation Zen 2 Ryzen processors earlier this year, Intel had to be sweating. With chips like Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, AMD is

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Building Your Own Tensegrity Structure

It seems that tensegrity structures are trending online, possibly due to the seemingly impossible nature of their construction. The strings appear to levitate without any sound reason, but if you bend them just the right way they’ll succumb to gravity.  The clue is in the name. Tensegrity is a pormanteau of “tension” and “integrity”. It’s

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Advanced Navigation raises $13M Series A for a range of products largely based on AI-enabled inertial navigation systems, which mostly do not rely on satellites (The Robot Report)

The Robot Report: Advanced Navigation raises $13M Series A for a range of products largely based on AI-enabled inertial navigation systems, which mostly do not rely on satellites  —  Advanced Navigation today said it has raised $13 million in a Series A round to fund a “significant” global expansion … Advanced Navigation raises M Series

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Interview with the Internet Society CEO, as he tries to defend the sale of the .org top level domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital (Kieren McCarthy/The Register)

Kieren McCarthy / The Register: Interview with the Internet Society CEO, as he tries to defend the sale of the .org top level domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital  —  Inside the decided mind of Andrew Sullivan  —  Interview El Reg has quizzed Andrew Sullivan, the president and CEO of the Internet Society

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