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I took an international trip with my frozen eggs to learn about the fertility industry

Depending on what’s being carried and how much they can pay, the patient or patients involved will choose either a hand-carry service, a commercial carrier such as DHL or FedEx, or something... Read more »

Roblox’s avatars are about to get more expressive

Roblox, an online game platform on which people can either play games or create them, has 52.2 million users per day. The company’s initial demographic was minors, but in recent years it... Read more »

The Download: conservative book bans, and restricting crypto

1 The White House is considering a policy push to restrict cryptoA series of new reports are warning of its financial risks, especially those posed by stablecoins. (WP $)+ It wants to... Read more »

A new X-ray technique for detecting explosives could also identify tumors

While the most obvious application would be to scan for bombs and other dangerous items and substances at airports, the findings, described in Nature Communications today, could also help to detect cracks... Read more »

How conservative Facebook groups are changing what books children read in school

Conservative activists are becoming increasingly powerful in determining what books are on school shelves. Districts in Texas have begun to require parent approval for books; in Utah, parents not only have the... Read more »

The Download: inhaled covid vaccines, and fighting malaria

The covid-19 pandemic is still not over. And while injected vaccines provide good protection from severe disease, they don’t stop us from catching the virus or spreading it to others. Vaccines that... Read more »

Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved—but we don’t know yet how good they are

In the last week, regulatory bodies in both India and China have approved inhaled vaccines for covid-19. The companies behind these vaccines say that they’ll boost the immune responses of people who... Read more »

Building great digital customer experiences with agile infrastructure

So then if I extend that. Two years ago, we launched DevCloud, UBS DevCloud, which is effectively an open ecosystem built on public cloud, where all our software engineers can have a... Read more »

The Download: LinkedIn scammers, and annual covid shots

2 The Merge is crypto’s greatest test to dateIf it’s successful, it could solve many of the industry’s problems. (Economist $)+ The Ethereum upgrade will greatly improve its security. (Protocol) 3 Doomscrolling... Read more »

The 1,000 Chinese SpaceX engineers who never existed

“They all graduated from Tsinghua and went on to the University of Southern California or similar well-known universities,” Li says. “Besides that, they all worked at a certain company in Shanghai. Obviously,... Read more »