Source: Scientists develop atomic-scale hardware to implement natural computing

Over the years, the debate surrounding the ethics of genome engineering research and applications has cultivated a sense of fear that societies depicted in movies like Gattaca, or the book Brave New World, could come to fruition. Although these scenarios seem socially impossible to execute, they were ultimately deemed scientifically far-fetched because the complexity of such tasks requires robust genome engineering skills and tools.

Source: The Genome Engineering Revolution

Google Inc., taking a new approach to enterprise security, is moving its corporate applications to the Internet. In doing so, the Internet giant is flipping common corporate security practice on its head, shifting away from the idea of a trusted internal corporate network secured by perimeter devices such as firewalls, in favor of a model where corporate data can be accessed from anywhere with the right device and user credentials.

Source: Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet – The CIO Report – WSJ

Being kind is fundamentally about taking responsibility for your impact on the people around you. It requires you be mindful of their feelings and considerate of the way your presence affects them.

Source: Be Kind

Neil McGovern was elected as Debian Project Leader in April. The project is going through some major changes such as a switch to systemd. We reached out to McGovern to understand his roles and plans for one of the most revered open source projects.

Source: New Debian Project Leader Talks Open Source Careers, PPAs, and More | Linux.com

 

Segundo Elon Musk, presidente da Tesla, os sistemas de armazenamento de energia da empresa podem se tornar um negócio maior do que os carros elétricos

Source: Tesla diz que pode lucrar mais com bateria do que com carros | EXAME.com

Once, Smarr was most renowned as the head of the research lab where Marc Andreessen developed the Web browser in the early 1990s. Now 66, Smarr is the unlikely hero of a global movement among ordinary people to “quantify” themselves using wearable fitness gadgets, medical equipment, headcams, traditional lab tests and homemade contraptions, all with the goal of finding ways to optimize their bodies and minds to live longer, healthier lives — and perhaps to discover some important truth about themselves and their purpose in life.

Source: Wearable gadgets portend vast health, research and privacy consequences | The Washington Post

Check out the new Django Tutorial! Learn about different environments, internationalization & localization, testing, documentation, template inheritance…!

Source: TaskBuster Django Tutorial | Marina Mele’s site

Attack planning your career path and finding the right lab in the same way as you would plan a research experiment.

Source: The postdoc series: Finding the right lab : Naturejobs Blog

. The neural network was formed by linking traditional circuitry through a grid of wiring (technically a crossbar). Memristors were formed at each place the perpendicular wires crossed—first by placing the metal oxide layers at these locations and then by flowing current through to a ground.

Source: Neural network chip built using memristors | Ars Technica