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Daily briefing: Solar panel skin helps buildings keep their cool
Nature, Published online: 12 July 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02168-5 Movable solar panels could substantially improve buildings’ energy efficiency, AI poker bot is first to beat the pros at six-player Texas hold’em and the seven best books about the Apollo Moon landings. Press Release Distribution Service
FTC Approves Roughly $5B Facebook Settlement
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftc-approves-roughly-5-billion-facebook-settlement-11562960538?mod=rsswn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20423819 Points: 66 # Comments: 43 Press Release Distribution Service
Show HN: PISA – Probably the Fastest Full Text Search Engine Written in C++
Article URL: https://github.com/pisa-engine/pisa/blob/master/README.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20423623 Points: 27 # Comments: 1 Press Release Distribution Service
A problem worse than Zoom
Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/zoom.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20423388 Points: 89 # Comments: 29 Press Release Distribution Service
Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid
Article URL: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/giant-batteries-and-cheap-solar-power-are-shoving-fossil-fuels-grid Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20422896 Points: 214 # Comments: 185 Press Release Distribution Service
Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language
Article URL: https://github.com/mirth-lang/mirth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20422831 Points: 48 # Comments: 31 Press Release Distribution Service
Improving care quality for hospitalized socially at-risk patients
Nurses play a pivotal role in caring for hospitalized patients with social risk factors and preparing them for discharge. Now, a new study illustrates how certain health system constraints present barriers to effective care and impact outcomes for patients with high social risks. Press Release Distribution Service
Novel nanoparticles deliver CRISPR gene editing tools into the cell with much higher efficiency
Researchers have developed a significantly improved delivery mechanism for the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing method in the liver. The delivery uses biodegradable synthetic lipid nanoparticles that carry the molecular editing tools into the cell to precisely alter the cells’ genetic code with as much as 90 percent efficiency. The nanoparticles could help overcome technical hurdles to…
NewsWatch: Facebook stock hits highest price in nearly a year after reports of $5 billion FTC fine
Facebook Inc. shares closed at their highest price in nearly a year Friday after reports that the Federal Trade Commission has approved a $5 billion fine, a record amount that would still be less than a quarter of Facebook’s annual profit. Press Release Distribution Service
10-year Treasury yield stages biggest weekly climb in three months
Long-term U.S. Treasury yields climb this week, despite trading lower on Friday, following testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who entrenched expectations for interest rate-cuts at the end of this month. Press Release Distribution Service