That is immediately’s version of The Obtain, our weekday e-newsletter that gives a every day dose of what’s occurring on this planet of expertise.
Why the sci-fi dream of cryonics by no means died
When Aaron Drake flew from Arizona to the Yinfeng Organic Group in China in 2016, he was touring there to information China’s first forays into cryonics, or freezing corpses for reanimation.
Drake had spent the earlier seven years because the medical response director of the Alcor Life Extension Basis, a small nonprofit that had managed to turn into the longtime chief in cryonics, freezing the our bodies and brains of its members, with the thought of in the future bringing them again to life, since 1976.
The inspiration, and cryonics typically, had lengthy survived exterior of mainstream acceptance. But it surely’s the latest involvement of Yinfeng that alerts one thing of a brand new period for cryonics.
With spectacular monetary sources, authorities assist, and scientific workers, it’s certainly one of a handful of recent labs centered on increasing the patron attraction of cryonics and making an attempt anew to carry credibility to the long-disputed concept of human reanimation. Nonetheless, the sphere stays rooted in religion fairly than any actual proof that it really works. Learn the complete story.
—Laurie Clarke
This piece is from our forthcoming mortality-themed challenge, obtainable from 26 October. If you wish to learn it when it comes out, you’ll be able to subscribe to MIT Expertise Assessment for as little as $80 a yr.
Are rats with human mind cells nonetheless simply rats?
This week, my colleague Jessica Hamzelou wrote about an enchanting experiment that concerned implanting human mind cells into rats’ brains. The mind cells from each species have been in a position to type connections and work collectively. The human cells grew to become a part of the rats’ brains.
A couple of months after they’d been implanted, the human cells made up round a sixth of the rats’ brains and appeared to have a task in controlling the animals’ conduct. Which invitations the tough query: Are these animals nonetheless 100% rat? Learn the complete story.
Jessica’s story is from The Checkup, her weekly e-newsletter exploring all issues biotech and well being. Enroll to obtain it in your inbox each Thursday.
ClimateTech 2022
This week MIT Expertise Assessment held its inaugural ClimateTech convention on expertise options for local weather change—a giant thanks to everybody who attended in-person or on-line!
In case you missed it, you’ll be able to meet up with all the largest information and bulletins by way of our dwell weblog protecting day one and day two of the convention.
The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to seek out you immediately’s most enjoyable/essential/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.1 China is making ready for its historic Communist celebration congress
A 3rd time period for president Xi Jinping is a near-certainty. (Economist $)
+ The congress is a chance for Xi to reassert his management. (FT $)
+ All 2,3000 senior celebration members will attend the assembly. (The Guardian)
+ Douying, Tiktok’s Chinese language sister app, is silencing Cantonese audio system. (Remainder of World)
2 Not everybody in California can afford electrical autos
They’re costly, and the state’s push in the direction of EVs dangers overlooking decrease earners. (The Guardian)
+ Even the US secretary of transportation acknowledges the obstacles. (Recode)
+ The US solely has 6,000 quick charging stations for EVs. (MIT Expertise Assessment)
3 Turkey has handed a flawed “disinformation invoice” forward of its elections
Which, handily sufficient, restricts criticisms of its President Erdoğan. (FT $)
+ The European Parliament has accused Large Tech of secretive lobbying. (Bloomberg $)
4 Meals is getting dearer 
Provide points and better gasoline costs are simply a number of the the reason why. (Vox)
+ The rising price of meals has contributed to these sky-high inflation figures. (New Yorker $)
5 An AI is planning to run for election in Denmark
The Artificial Celebration, which is led by an AI, claims to characterize the values of “non-voting Danes.” (Motherboard)
6 Players are the proper goal for cybercriminals
Youthful gamers are notably susceptible to fraudsters’ advances. (NYT $)
7 Advertisements on Netflix are arriving subsequent month
The corporate desperately desires to draw new prospects, following months of customers canceling their subscriptions. (WSJ $)
8 Intense warmth remedy isn’t only for elite athletes 
Rigorously managed publicity to warmth may forestall cardiovascular and metabolic illnesses, too. (Neo.Life)
9 Your restaurant server hates your menu hacks
And apps are making it simpler than ever to order elaborate concoctions anonymously. (Eater)
10 There aren’t legs within the metaverse in spite of everything 
Onerous to consider, I do know, however Meta misled us. (Kotaku)
+ Meta is desperately making an attempt to make the metaverse occur. (MIT Expertise Assessment)
Quote of the day
“There’ll usually be one or two individuals operating round like loopy, or doing one thing like creating an enormous cartoon of a cat.”
—Antti Innanen, chief govt of Dot, a Finnish authorized design consultancy, explains the pitfalls of making an attempt to carry individuals’s consideration whereas giving seminars within the metaverse to the Monetary Occasions.
We are able to nonetheless have good issues
A spot for consolation, enjoyable and distraction in these bizarre instances. (Obtained any concepts? Drop me a line or tweet ’em at me.)
+ Hey, that’s not how the subsequent line of the music goes!
+ The one and solely Patti Smith is releasing a e book subsequent month—and it’s impressed by, err, Instagram.
+ This sunlit waterfall is straight out of Home of the Dragon.
+ In case you ever end up in London, it’s solely proper you take pleasure in a little bit of pub grub.
+ We are likely to gravitate in the direction of the acquainted when one thing’s coming to an finish, and that’s okay.