A developer of treatments for Alzheimer's disease that seeks to improve the condition of the brain's support cells is raising £48 million ($US 61 million) in its first venture round.
Research with lab mice shows an experimental vaccine stimulates the body's basic immune system to protect against a range of pathogens associated with hospital infections.
A new company developing digital cardiac diagnostics is collaborating with the Mayo Clinic on early detection of coronary artery disease, a key trigger of heart attacks.
Is there a convenient open licence for releasing all of the code within a project as much as CC0, while reserving all rights over everything else? (Images, story, characters, etc) #GameDev#OpenSource#Licensing
Global research-and-development (R&D) investment works out to $1,286 per capita per year in high-income countries and just $42 in low and middle income countries. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02998-4
The article focuses on "benevolent #patent extension" as a partial remedy. "An inventor who applies to patent a ‘benevolent discovery’ — one that targets LMICs’ needs — [can] offset the R&D costs by extending another patent, for a ‘non-essential’ product."
Russian state TV says it is launching a Tucker Carlson show. Carlson says it's not true. Since neither source has any credibility, hard to decide who not to believe...
A start-up biotechnology company says it received the okay for its investigational new drug application of an anti-viral drug to treat a whole class of seasonal flu strains.
2 days ago #HomeAssistant landed a PR (in its "assets" repo, not the codebase) that added an exception to the repo's #licensing language stating that "this logo is not released under the CC license. All rights reserved."
The whole repo, however, remains under CC-BY-NC-SA as per its LICENSE.md file.
The slides of my talk at the tech, law and popular culture conference Gikii are now online at https://bit.ly/gikii23 (Google Slides).
Using memes and financial data from FOI requests, I argued that, when it comes to digitised cultural heritage collections, many institutions have copyright and access policies that conflict with relevant law, lose money and – crucially – undermine their public missions.
No, #Lightning was a proprietary bullshit solution and #Apple's #licensing as well as poor quality of it's cables and the tendency for said contacts to corrode made it worse than if they had just chosen to make a miniature version of #MagSafe with USB 2.0 in it.
Also no, Apple didn't invent #USBc and with their bs connector actively stifled it's adoption.
@sneak Even if we think that #Apple actually made an innovation with #Lightning, their shit quality cables that flake easily as they neither use BFR & PVC but also refuse to use Kevlar as sheath makes them bad.