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Growing human tissue artificially could be our best bet in replacing or restoring function to parts of the body damaged or lost by disease and injury. But it doesn’t have to be complicated. Sometimes all you need is a helping hand. For a team of British scientists, that helping hand is a robot’s. Researchers at Oxford University, in collaboration with German robotics company Devanthro, have made a robot device that eerily looks like something straight out of Westworld. In a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature , this humanoid robo-shoulder is designed to help grow human tendons, soft connective tissues that attach muscle to bone. It may be to address those needs and be our ticket to regenerating these tissues more easily in the lab, helping millions of people in the U.S. who suffer from tendon injuries like rotator cuff tears. As opposed to artificially growing organs like hearts and brains , finicky tissues like tendons need a bit more TLC to grow and function … [Read more...] about A Robotic Shoulder May Be Our Ticket to Lab-Grown Human Tendons

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0 Seasonal & Holidays The day after Memorial Day in Evanston this year, a community lantern floating event will commemorate those lost to COVID-19. Jonah Meadows , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply EVANSTON, IL — Memorial Day is this Monday, May 30. Most local, state and federal offices in Evanston the rest of Illinois will be closed for the in observance of the holiday, and various local businesses will be open with modified hours. Evanston American Legion Post 42 is hosting a Memorial Day community reflection at Fountain Square and hold a ceremony to honor servicemen and women who have died. The event will include non-denominational reflections, singing and remarks from local elected officials and veterans group leaders, including both Post 42 and Tech. Sgt. William B. Snell VFW Post 7186, according to city staff. Assembly at the Sherman Avenue and Davis Street square begins at 10 a.m., with the ceremony … [Read more...] about Memorial Day 2022 In Evanston To Honor The Fallen

The San Francisco tech startup that helped popularize a push for a four-day workweek in Silicon Valley, is now laying workers off. As first reported by the New York Times , Bolt, the payment services startup with offices near San Francisco’s Union Square, laid off around 250 of its around 900 employees Wednesday in a move to “secure our financial position, extend our runway, and reach profitability with the money we have already raised” amid industrywide financial challenges, according to a letter to staff . A Bolt spokesperson confirmed to SFGATE Thursday that "approximately a third of the company" was laid off. “It’s no secret that the market conditions across our industry and the tech sector are changing, and against the macro challenges, we’ve been taking measures to adapt our business,” recently appointed CEO Maju Kuruvilla said in the letter, which was made public Wednesday. One laid-off employee, posting on the anonymous forum Blind, said that they received … [Read more...] about Bolt, the San Francisco startup with permanent 4-day workweek, lays off nearly a third of its employees

Cathie Wood is always bullish. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Around the middle of April, Cathie Wood sat onstage at the storied Fontainebleau hotel in Miami. It was an awkward time to be a keynote speaker at a conference for money managers: Wood’s flagship fund, the ARK Innovation ETF, had lost roughly half of its value over the prior year, as its aggressive bets on hot companies from Coinbase to Robinhood and Tesla had melted down amid a bear market in tech stocks. Wood, though, had evidently not lost her luster — judging by the crowd’s applause — nor her brazen bullishness. A year earlier, she’d thought her firm, ARK Invest, would deliver annualized returns of 15 percent, she acknowledged, setting up what seemed like a mea culpa for her poor performance. Instead, she doubled down: “Now we think 50 percent.” So far, she’s been wrong — her main fund is down another 34 percent since her comments — but her firm still has more … [Read more...] about The Rise and Fall of Wall Street’s Most Controversial Investor

0 Crime & Safety Parents say a teacher and coach shot 3 times is a hero. A 13-year-old girl remains in critical condition. Shooting suspect is in custody. Rebecca Hughes , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply NOBLESVILLE, IN — A middle school science teacher threw himself into the line of fire Friday morning when a student walked into his Noblesville West Middle School classroom with two guns and began shooting, wounding the teacher and a 13-year-old girl before the teacher reportedly rushed the shooter, slapped the gun from his hand and tackled him. The teacher, Jason Seaman, was shot three times defending his classroom. Noblesville Police Chief Kevin Jowitt said the shooting took place just after 9 a.m. and the investigation continues. The girl remains in critical condition as of 8 p.m. Eastern time, according to Noblesville police. IndyStar.com reports she was shot in the … [Read more...] about Noblesville Teacher Swatted Gun From Shooter’s Hand

close Video Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines 5/24 Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what clicked this week in entertainment. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! The audience at the Cannes Film Festival was trembling for Austin Butler as the King in Baz Luhrmann’s world premiere of "Elvis." The film received an uproarious 12-minute standing ovation, the longest of this year’s festival so far. As the cheers went on and on, a teary-eyed Butler hugged an equally-emotional Priscilla Presley, who flew to the South of France to give her blessing for the movie about her late husband. The Warner Bros. musical drama had Cannes spontaneously erupting into applause as Butler recreated some of Presley’s greatest hits including "Jailhouse Rock," "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Suspicious Minds." PRISCILLA PRESLEY PRAISES ‘ELVIS’ BIOPIC STARRING AUSTIN BUTLER: ‘HE HAD BIG … [Read more...] about Priscilla Presley moved to tears as ‘Elvis’ biopic receives 12-minute standing ovation at Cannes

Click here to read the full article. The mild initial curiosity stirred by Zoom-shot movies died quickly, because so few of them were watchable, and because filmmakers quickly found workarounds to create more fluid entertainments while still observing COVID precautionary measures. Thus “ Zero Contact ” arrives as a novelty that’s already more than worn out its welcome, aiming for dubious additional distinction as “the world’s first star-powered feature film NFT.” (It was released in that form last September — whether anyone actually purchased it as such is unknown.) We’ll just gingerly step around that factoid, as the aptly named “Zero Contact” has plenty of more tangible ways in which it is a steaming pile of nada. Producer turned first-time director Rick Dugdale and screenwriter Cam Cannon’s would-be thriller has five globally-scattered protagonists yelling at their screens during a conference call in which the fate of all humanity supposedly hangs in the balance from some … [Read more...] about ‘Zero Contact’ Review: The Zoom-Shot Movie Subgenre Dies Yelling