The Futurist is your daily tech, cosmic, and science (both weird or otherwise) newsletter with articles and content curated just for you. // Crypto heist // Keeping oysters up // Embryo model // Lunar landing | | “Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb. The Weizmann Institute team say their ‘embryo model’, made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab. The ambition for embryo models is to provide an ethical way of understanding the earliest moments of our lives.” | Why do Bombas make their running socks at calf height? Because they're the perfect rise that never slips or moves around, while even keeping dirt out of your socks while trail running. Bombas uses Hex Tec construction for breathability, leaving you feeling light on your feet while you get active outside. Made with comfort innovations like strategic zone cushioning and airflow ventilation which ensure that you get a pleasant landing with every step you take. One item purchased = one item donated. [Ad] | “In several quiet rooms in a marine lab in southwest France, dozens of Pacific oysters sit in large glass tanks, quietly living their oyster lives. Each morning, the lights come up slowly, carefully mimicking the rising sun, but at night the rooms never fully darken. The dim glow simulates the light pollution that increasingly plagues many marine species — even in natural habitats. Damien Tran, a marine scientist at the Paris-based French National Centre for Scientific Research, and one of the study’s authors, was surprised that even the lowest level of nighttime light that they tested — ‘below the intensity of the full moon,’ he says — was enough to throw off the oysters’ circadian rhythm.” | “Remember the massive LastPass security breach that LassPass detailed on the Thursday before Christmas? The one where hackers were able to steal a backup containing customer vault data that included both encrypted and unencrypted data? At the time, LastPass tried to assure customers that their data was safe and that it might take attackers a million years to get into user accounts. About a year after the original LastPass attack started, security experts have now linked crypto thefts targeting more than 150 people to the LastPass breach. And the hackers managed to steal over $35 million worth of crypto after apparently getting access to LastPass vaults.” | Tired of staring at a blank page, struggling to find the right words to connect with your audience? Constant Contact’s AI content generator can banish writer’s block for good. Think of the time you’ll save crafting the perfect copy for marketing campaigns while increasing your open rates, without breaking a sweat. Say goodbye to the frustration of content creation and hello to more time doing what you love with who you love. [Ad] | “For decades, the United States and Soviet Russia were the only countries that had landed on the moon. Then came China and India. Now, Japan is trying for the second time in 2023. A mere four months after Japan's first attempt to land on the moon ended in failure in April — it's tough to land on the moon — the country's hopes were set on a second attempt. Moon Sniper is the nickname for a small and light spacecraft that was designed as a ‘pinpoint’ lander called SLIM. SLIM stands for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, and scientists call it the sniper because of its precision. Japanese officials say the idea is to go from an era of ‘landing where we can’ to ‘landing where we want’ on a celestial body with gravity, such as the moon.” | Interested in having one of your social posts featured in The Futurist? | | Between which two planets does the asteroid belt lie? | You have 8 to choose from. | | | | |
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