For many years, people resisted using hearing aids because of the optics. Wearing hearing aids were—and still are—a very visual reminder for most that they are aging. My own mother, who is 92 years young, refused to wear a hearing aid because she did not want to be labelled as old. But in recent years,…
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2022 will be a year of big tech promises. Whether companies can deliver is another question. We’ll get our first clues at this week’s CES electronics show in Las Vegas — a sprawling event that offers an exclusive glimpse at the tech that could help shape the year. (That is, unless the high transmissibility of…
Read MoreRoughly one-tenth of the human genome remained uncharted when genomics researchers Karen Miga at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Adam Phillippy at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, launched the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium in 2019. Now, that number has dropped to zero. In a preprint published in May last year,…
Read MoreThe Topics API, a replacement for Google’s ill-fated FLOC, is designed to reveal your interests to advertisers while protecting privacy. Skeptics aren’t convinced. on Tuesday a new technology called Topics that’s designed to protect user privacy without putting an end to web advertising. The approach, which Google plans to start testing in coming weeks, replaces an earlier project…
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