11-08-2015, 10:57 PM
Researchers found that three glasses of bubbly a day could help ward off brain disorders such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease. They discovered that a compound found in the black grapes, Pinot noir and Pinot meunier, both of which are used for champagne, helps stave off forgetfulness.
Three glasses of fizz a day 'could improve your memory' - Telegraph
Robots will take over 45pc of all jobs in manufacturing and shave $9 trillion off labour costs within a decade, leaving great swathes of the global society on the historical scrap heap.
Robots may shatter the global economic order within a decade - Telegraph
An infant with ‘incurable’ leukemia was the world’s first leukemia patient to be sucessfully treated with the experimental technique of gene editing. Performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), the procedure successfully destroyed the cancer cells in the girl, who was afflicted with Infant Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).
World's first use of gene editing saves life of infant girl | Digital Trends
Processor makers regularly exaggerate the performance of their chips (remember Intel's obsession with clock speed?), but AMD is learning that there are limits around what you can claim. It's facing a class action lawsuit accusing the company of misleading buyers about the number of cores in its Bulldozer-based CPUs. It would advertise that a given processor had eight cores, for example, when it effectively had four -- each core in AMD-speak was really half of a module, and couldn't operate independently.
Lawsuit claims AMD lied about the number of cores in its chips
We are witnessing the worst manmade environmental disaster since the BP gulf oil spill. Huge, out-of-control fires rage through the forests of Indonesia – and the source of many is the practice of deliberately burning the land to clear it for palm oil and paper products.