Sansar is a new social, virtual-reality world coming later this year from the company behind Second Life.
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Apple patents a high-tech vaporizer
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Apple new patent.
Some are weird, some are cool, and some make nearly no sense, but a newly uncovered patent application from the company is one of the rare examples of all three; Apple just patented a vape.
The Cupertino giant filed an application for a distinct vaporizing technology, the past year.
The patent, first spotted by Digital Trends, was filed in July 2015 and published on Thursday.
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Republican members of Congress are now ordering DARPA to end their work on Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites. Why are they ordering them to stop? Because, according to National Space Policy guidelines, DARPA might be conducting operations that are potentially discouraging similar research in the private sector. Hmmmm :-(.
Republican congressmen orders DARPA to stop their work for in-space satellite services; DARPA refuses. — B.J. Murphy for Serious Wonder.
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A woman was kept alive with no lungs for six days while she waited for a transplant in April last year.
It is thought to be the first operation of its kind in the world and she was kept alive with a small, artificial lung.
Melissa Benoit, who lives in Canada, had developed life-threatening complications as a result of her cystic fibrosis.
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Growing organs in the lab is an enduring sci-fi trope, but as stem cell technology brings it ever closer to reality, scientists are beginning to contemplate the ethics governing disembodied human tissue.
So-called organoids have now been created from gut, kidney, pancreas, liver and even brain tissue. Growing these mini-organs has been made possible by advances in stem cell technology and the development of 3D support matrices that allow cells to develop just like they would in vivo.
Unlike simple tissue cultures, they exhibit important structural and functional properties of organs, and many believe they could dramatically accelerate research into human development and disease.
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