For those of you in the U.S., we hope you had a relaxing holiday. Because we had a few days off, we decided to do something different today. Enjoy! The Futurist is your daily tech, cosmic, and science (both weird or otherwise) newsletter with articles and content curated just for you. // Death // Threads // mRNA // Insterstellar | | "Scientists have developed and tested a new potential treatment for cancer that works in a similar way to the COVID‑19 vaccines. The technique involves delivering mRNA molecules to cancer cells and tricking them into producing toxic proteins that kill the tumors." | Need to know what is the best at-home metabolism test? What about which COVID‑19 at-home test is most suitable for you? How about an at-home allergy test? Perhaps even genealogy or DNA tests? There's one place to go for all your at-home test needs and it's only a click away. [Ad] | "Sixty thousand years ago, at a time long before our ancestors settled down and became farmers, our solar system entered the Local Interstellar Cloud. The name is perhaps misleading. Though we call it a "cloud", the concentration of matter within it is tenuous, far weaker than any cloud found on Earth. Yet compared to its surroundings, this cloud is an area of density: a region where dust and gas exist in slightly greater quantities." | "Death is inevitable but comes with many tasks and responsibilities at a time when we are clouded by grief. Whether experiencing cyber grief after the unexpected death of an online friend, trying to plan a funeral with an ecological bent, or wanting to have a say in how we are remembered, startups are constantly innovating what happens after we die… Here are a handful of companies worth 'digging' into…" | In air combat, aerial warfighters engage with enemy aircraft by steering their plane toward the adversary. This concept is called "going to the merge." It's also an incredibly unique and engaging newsletter. There's a reason people in the Pentagon and Congress read the Merge. They get weekly knowledge bombs on the intersection of defense business, technology, and industry happenings — with a sprinkle of history, policy, and strategy — delivered with fighter pilot wit. That's why we at The Futurist love it, we get a weekly sneak peek into the most intense tech sector there is: Defense. Go to The Merge each week, we dare you. [Ad] | "If there's one thing we can count on Meta to do, it's copy another app. Following the latest stretch of tweeting confusion, Instagram's Twitter competitor, Threads, has arrived. The new app, which launched [yesterday] for iOS and Android, is basically exactly like your old app, Twitter, but with less Elon Musk and more Mark Zuckerberg. Each post can be up to 500 characters long, in comparison to Twitter's 280 or Twitter Blue's exorbitant 25,000, and each Threads post can include links, photos, and videos up to five minutes long — twice as long as Twitter's two and a half minutes but far shorter than Twitter Blue's two-hour-long ability. | Interested in having one of your social posts featured in The Futurist? | | What does a mitochondria do in a cell? | An easy one for you this Friday. | | | | |
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