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It’s no secret that automakers have shown more interest in startups lately. Nor is it any secret what’s driving that surge, given the massive shifts the industry faces from the rise of electric cars, autonomous vehicles, ride-hailing services and other emerging technologies and transportation business models. We set out to quantify combined investment by automakers in startups… Read More …read more
Source:: TechCrunch – Startups
Nikon, one of the leading manufacturers of microscopes, also hosts an annual microscopy competition (and you can use any company’s microscopes to enter). We’ve shared some of our favorite images with you in years past, since they’ve been every bit as artistic as good photography and, in many cases, reveal important details about the natural world—details that we’d otherwise never be able to appreciate.
Most people will only get exposed to microscopy during high school biology, which is typically the realm of static slices of long-dead organisms, permanently pressed onto a glass side. But history’s first use of a microscope back in the 1600s involved watching living microbes flitting across the field of view. Microscopy doesn’t have to be static; in fact, the element of time can be incredibly informative.
And advancements in technology mean that we can do some amazing things with living samples, including labelling them in a rainbow of fluorescent colors, automating long time-lapse recordings, and more. And movies can tell us things that wouldn’t be possible to learn otherwise, like the process by which a material deforms and breaks, the coordination of cell divisions and migrations that assemble an embryo, and more.
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Source:: Ars Technica
I feel like I’m going to be the last person on Earth to get Instagram’s archive feature. All my friends have been able to hide their old photos for months. Most got the tool way back in June when Instagram announced that the feature would accompany its 10.21 release for iOS and Android. But not me.
Instagram’s first tests of the features go back even further; some Verge staffers saw it on their accounts in late May. Archiving lets users choose posts to take off their grid. Instead of deleting them, though, those posts go into a separate, private section of the app that serves as an archive folder. It works similarly to the bookmarking feature: no one can see what you’ve archived, but you can navigate to the posts through your profile…
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Source:: The Verge – All Posts