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Medical implants such as pacemakers and gastric stimulators have improved our lives, but the batteries in these devices eventually run out and require surgery to replace them.

It raises a futuristic question: what if there was a way to avoid cutting a patient’s body open to replace a battery?

A team of Chinese scientists have come up with a possible method to pull that off by developing an implantable battery that uses oxygen already inside the human body to continuously power itself up.

In an interview, University of Michigan civil engineer Sherif El-Tawil explained how often ships collide with bridges, what can be done to protect bridges from collisions, and how a similar disaster in Florida in 1980 – just three years after the Key bridge opened – changed the way bridges are built.

This is not the first time a ship has taken out a bridge. What’s the history of ship-bridge collisions?

This is an extremely rare event. To my knowledge, there are about 40 or so recorded events in the past 65 years that involved similar type of damage to a bridge caused by a ship. So they seem to occur on average about once every one and a half to two years around the world. When you consider that there are millions of bridges around the world – and most of them cross waterways – you can imagine how rare this is.

It’ll be your last chance to see and photograph a total solar eclipse until 2044.

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Visitors are welcome to see Cloudflare’s lava lamp wall up close.

Problems with the future of gaming.

A strange bug is removing people’s games on PlayStation 4 and 5, and Vita, and Sony doesn’t have a fix.

It wasn’t long ago that PlayStation sparked fan outrage when it said it would remove Discovery video content from people’s libraries, even though they had paid for it.

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Byreddy, O, and Choi have improved detector capabilities for compact, in-hand millimetre wave imaging devices.

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SDPO

Don’t Use Your Data All at Once https://huggingface.co/papers/2403.

As development of large language models (LLM) progresses, aligning them with human preferences has become increasingly important.

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Sometimes a cough is just a cough. But if it sticks around for a while, you may have something more serious. Find out more about what may be causing your nagging cough.