Until recently, CRISPR—the gene-editing technology that won scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry—sounded more like science fiction than medicine; lab-created molecular scissors are used to snip out problematic DNA sections in a patient’s cells to cure them of disease. But soon we could see regulators app
Two weeks ago, Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello reassured his staff that the video game software-development company had no plans to lay anyone off. On Thursday, several hundred people found out firsthand that plans had apparently changed.
Unity has laid off 4% of its workforce, between 200 and 300 employees, as part of a realignment. In an effort to explain the move, a company spokesperson told
Since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine in late February 2022, Russian internet users have experienced what has been dubbed the descent of a “digital iron curtain.”
Russian authorities blocked access to all major opposition news sites, as well as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Under the
From keynote presentations at the cybersecurity industry’s biggest events to everyday news headlines, everyone appears to be talking about Zero Trust. The Biden administration has now even
For patients and physicians, taking medications orally is often the most desirable way to administer drugs. Among other advantages, swallowing a pill is safer, more convenient and less invasive compared to injections or other ways to take a drug.
But one of the challenges oral pills face is getting digested by the stomach before
Since late February, Fast Company has covered the vibrant technology space that’s endured in Ukraine, even as the country has been embroiled in war against Russia. The Ukrainian tech community has played an outsized role in both
It’s been a volatile year for the markets. In mid-June the S&P 500 fell 3.3%, and is down 23%, its lowest since December 2020. Experts chalk it up to infla
You’ve heard of smartphones, smart cars, smart cities, even smart refrigerators, but have you heard of Smart Parks? Smart Parks is a Netherlands-based team of technologists dreaming up inventive ways to realize the founders’ vision of bringing the power of modern technology to bear in conservation.
“Big tech organizations like Google and Microsoft have big conservation programs, but it’s not their core business,” says Tim van Dam, one of the co-founde
When I first started using Pocket, I felt like a kid in a candy shop. I saved anything and everything, until a few weeks down the line, when I had an overflowing reading list with no apparent plan for tackling it. Saving content was the easy part. Consuming it? Not so much.
I decided to make a concerted effort to become a better reader—not just a save-for-later-and-call-it-a-day reader. Here&#
It’s 2022 and typing on a phone still isn’t all that enjoyable, right? Luckily, we now have plenty of options to help us kinda-sorta avoid jabbing at a tiny onscreen keyboard. Here are three really cool tricks to save you valuable typing time on your iPhone or iPad.
Dictation
If you haven’t used iOS’s built-in dictation feature yet, you’re missing out: It’s perhaps the easiest way to”write” a ton of text without tapp