It may seem that Facebook took an early plunge into the metaverse, but the virtual world has been in the making for quite some time.

November 27, 2021 — A few years ago, a little known Montreal XR company was putting its patented technical chops into building out what many think is the “last interface”, one that Facebook (ahem, Meta’s) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting the social media giant’s future on. Today, that Montreal company, and some pretty impressive Canadian innovators, find themselves thick in the middle of the Metaverse’s battle of the titans.

The Miller-Urey experiment showed that the conditions of early Earth could be simulated in a glass flask. New research finds the flask itself played an under appreciated, though outsized role.

Ultrasound triggered cells home in on tumors and then self destruct to deliver damage or therapeutics from inside.

With 360 million times more pressure than we experience on the Earth’s surface, things are bound to get strange.

The sphere of iron that resides there is also under extreme pressure: about 360 million times more pressure than we experience on the Earth’s surface.

Soome valitsus otsustas täna ennelõunal kehtestada suure nakkuse levikuga piirkondades uued koroonapiirangud restoranidele, kus nüüdsest on õigus alkoholi müüa vaid koroonapassi ettenäitajale.

Mica is Microsoft’s new transparency effect for Windows 11. It is similar to Acrylic but optimised for performance by only sampling from your wallpaper rather than the app below you.

Microsoft has been rolling out the new look to more and more native apps, and now Office Insiders and Beta users are reporting that the effect is also showing up in their apps.

Circa 2020

One possibility for curbing the spread of airborne pathogens is a nonthermal plasma reactor.