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What’s popping in science and tech?

Science just pulled a Rick Sanchez — 3D-printed skin that heals like the real thing

“Aw jeez, Rick, they’ve gone and printed skin now!”

No joke — Swedish researchers have 3D-printed artificial skin that can actually grow its own blood vessels. Think less lab coats, more Rick’s garage vibes.

Here’s how it works: they cooked up a “bio-ink” where skin cells kick back on gelatin beanbags, spitting out collagen like it’s space goo. Then they 3D-printed hydrogel strands that dissolve into tiny tunnels — basically blood-flow portals waiting to be activated.

Why it matters: regular skin grafts are like patching up a spaceship with duct tape — they hold, they work, but they’re not the perfect fix. This new tech could mean grafts that heal faster, scar less, and behave more like the real thing.

Still only in mice for now, but if science keeps leveling up like this, we’re not too far from “interdimensional wound healing.”

Martian Mud Might Be Alive: NASA’s Latest Discovery Stirs Debate

NASA’s Perseverance rover just turned over a rock—well, a whole mudstone—that could rewrite cosmic history.

Before you pop the champagne: no, NASA hasn’t found alien microbes waving hello. What they have found are redox reactions—the same kind of chemical energy trades that, here on Earth, microbes use to stay alive.

Joel Hurowitz, PhD—geosciences professor at Stony Brook University and lead author of the new paper—explains that these reactions could be plain chemistry. But here’s the kicker: their observations in Mars’ Bright Angel formation don’t line up neatly with a purely non-biological explanation. The iron, sulfur, and phosphorus-bearing nodules, plus those reaction fronts, might be a biosignature—a potential fingerprint of ancient life.

This discovery doesn’t close the case for life on Mars—but it sure makes the Red Planet look less dead and a lot more interesting.

Guiding drivers though the chaos (by blinding them in one eye)

I’m getting ever closer to getting Vegeta’s ‘scouter’ from Dragon Ball Z (DBZ).

Augmented Reality (AR) glasses have been a thing for a while, but Amazon is reportedly rolling out AR glasses for 100 '000 delivery drivers. While we’re still at least a year away from Amazon releasing these glasses — codenamed JayHawk — to the public, these glasses are supposed to have microphones, speakers, and a camera, and most importantly, a full-color display in one eye. 

Now don’t get me wrong, this is pretty cool, but I’m a bit skeptical on how they’re going to implement this in an unobtrusive way for driving. We wouldn’t want driver’s half blind running into people’s mailboxes while making deliveries.

Personally, I can’t wait to LARP as a DBZ character when these do come out. Hoping Bezos comes out with a monocle version.

Another app bites the dust

A terrible day for Android users: Microsoft’s pulling the plug on Outlook Lite on October 6th, ending the app’s short 3 year lifespan.

They’ve been chopping services like this for a while now, with the slated demise of the Lens scanner app in 5 days and the removal of the Editor add-on for Edge and Chrome on October 31st (though that one is going to be built into the browsers themselves).

Microsoft want people to transition to Outlook Mobile instead, as they’re pouring all their investments into that now. I can’t say I care too much about any of this, I have an Android and I don’t think I’ve used Outlook in more than a month. If this affects you, I’m sorry, I’ll play a small violin for you.

AI think, therefore I A.M.

It seems that humanity’s learned absolutely nothing from the Terminator or Matrix movies: Chinese scientists have designed an AI that thinks like a human, mimicking the way neurons fire when humans read sentences and put together their meaning.

And it doesn’t stop there, because apparently, this method of AI reasoning is faster, doesn’t require Nvidia GPUs, takes much less energy, and can be a 100 times faster than current AI models.

Read: Australia to spend $1.1b on 'ghost sharks' - autonomous undersea striker vehicles

So either this revolutionizes the industry and we get fast-tracked to living under the Allied Mastercomputer (A.M, for short), or this fails and we end up paying through our teeth for increased energy bills (no, i’m not biased in my AI coverage, why would you think that?).

Smart home hacking

For all you living in your new-age smart homes, AI prompts can be used to bypass antivirus programs and give connected AI orders with you being none the wiser.

All somebody has to do is slip a prompt in an everyday message that an AI would pick up, and they can make it do things like open a ‘smart’ window, turn on appliances, even reveal your location from your phone, and there isn’t a firewall out there that can stop it.

Not all is lost, however. By making sure you’re up to date on the latest software, monitoring what messages the AI reads, or simply disabling it in places where you don’t absolutely need it, you can prevent this problem from occurring.

Or, you know, just do things manually. That would help too.

Endless? Not quite. Google defines limits on Gemini

Only very recently, we learned what usage limits were actually placed on Gemini at the various tiers. No more guesswork with vague “limited access” disclaimers and the like.

Google has at last updated its Help Center article detailing “Gemini Apps limits & upgrades for Google AI subscribers.” But hold on to your wallets.

That means, up to 100 images per day and 5 prompts per day for free, compared to the 1000 images per day and the 500 prompts per day with ‘Google AI Ultra’. (Screenshot attached above & reviews below).