Human Tooth Grown in Lab
The BBC reported scientists at King's College in London announced they have managed to grow a human tooth.
Scientists at King's College in London announced they have managed to grow a human tooth, the BBC reported.
While it might be a long time before lab-grown teeth can be put in a person's mouth, researchers told the BBC it will assist with their work. While sharks and elephants have the ability to grow new teeth, humans have only one set from adulthood, the scientists found in a study, according to the Independent.
Lab-grown teeth could be a better alternative than implants, which can cause unforeseen problems and require invasive surgery, the researchers said to the BBC.
"Lab-grown teeth would naturally regenerate, integrating into the jaw as real teeth," Xuechen Zhang, a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, told the BBC. "They would be stronger, longer lasting, and free from rejection risks, offering a more durable and biologically compatible solution than fillings or implants."
The scientists were able introduce a material that lets one cell tell another cell to become a tooth cell, mimicking the environment of growing teeth and allowing the scientists to re-create how a tooth is developed, the BBC reported. Previous efforts to re-create this process in the lab had failed, as the cells were unable to communicate effectively, the Independent reported.
"We could transplant the young tooth cells at the location of the missing tooth and let them grow inside mouth," Zhang said to the BBC. "Alternatively, we could create the whole tooth in the lab before placing it in the patient's mouth."
The researchers warned getting a lab tooth into a patient's mouth could take years.
"Will it come in my lifetime of practice? Possibly," Saiorse O'Toole, a clinical lecturer in prosthodontics at King's College, told the BBC. "In my children's dental lifetimes? Maybe. But in my children's children's lifetimes, hopefully."
"Because we are so lean and mean, and because we have set up all of our systems from scratch ... we have been able to not only increase our profits, but also offer very good interest rates in the European market in general, and in the Netherlands specifically," Niknam said.
More recently, central banks in the EU and U.K. and U.S. have moved to slash interest rates in response to falling inflation and concerns of an economic slowdown, which can bite into bank earnings.
Niknam said he's not concerned by the prospect of rates coming down and expects potential declines in interest income to be offset by a "diversified" revenue mix that includes income from paid subscription products, as well as new features. Bunq recently launched a tool that lets users trade stocks.
"This is different in continental Europe to the U.K. We had negative interest rates for long," Niknam told CNBC. "So as we were growing, actually our cost base was also growing because we had to pay for all the deposits that people deposited a Bunq so I think we're in a great position in 2025
U.S. announces probe into chip, electronics imports, paving the way for new tariffs
The U.S. Commerce Department is conducting an investigation into imports of various semiconductor technologies and electronics, a federal notice shows.
The U.S. Commerce Department is conducting a national security investigation into imports of semiconductor technology and related downstream products, according to a Federal Register notice put online Monday.
The official document — which calls for public comments on the investigation — further confirms that chips and the electronics supply chain will not be excluded from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff plans despite his statement on Friday that many of those products were exempt from his "reciprocal tariffs."
While exemptions have been made on various electronics products, including smartphones, computers and semiconductors, Trump and some officials said over the weekend that the reprieve was temporary and part of plans to apply separate tariffs to the sector.
The semiconductor investigation — first initiated by the secretary of commerce on April 1 — sets the grounds for such tariffs to come into effect.
The justification is being used for a similar investigation on pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients, which was also disclosed on Monday.
The U.S. is heavily dependent on semiconductor technology imported from markets like Taiwan, South Korea, and the Netherlands.
However, for years, Washington has been implementing policies aimed at onshoring more of the semiconductor supply chain, including through industrial policies such as the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act.
Adobe, a creative technology powerhouse valued at roughly $150 billion, is best known for the Photoshop image editing tool. The company also makes Premiere Pro, a video editing platform widely used by professionals in broadcast media, advertising and other industries.
"We're building the world's leading AI video platform for enterprise, and Adobe's investment validates that direction," Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli told CNBC. "We share a vision: democratizing high-quality content creation and making enterprise communication faster and more effective."
The startup remains lossmaking, however — and is not focusing on making a profit anytime soon.
In 2023, Synthesia reported a pre-tax loss of £25.2 million on revenues of £25.7 million, according to a U.K. Companies House filing. Profitability is "not an immediate focus," Riparbelli told CNBC. "But the path is clear."
"We've never chased growth at any cost," Synthesia's CEO said, adding the company still had cash left over from a 2023 funding round when it raised funds again earlier this year.
Synthesia was most recently valued at $2.1 billion in an investment round announced in January. Its rivals include Colossyan, DeepBrain AI, Invideo AI, Filmora and Veed.io. The startup also faces competition from OpenAI, whose text-to-video model Sora can create realistic video clips based on user prompts.
Other measures include introducing training and research programs for domestic master's and doctoral students as well as global joint research programs for foreign talent.
South Korea is home to some of the world's top chipmakers, including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, with semiconductors a key export of the country.
On Tuesday, the South Korean Kospi was up 0.68%, with Samsung climbing 1.07% and SK Hynix up 0.17%.
In 2024, South Korea's exports of semiconductors stood at $141.9 billion, just over 20% of the country's $683.6 billion exports.
If semiconductor plants need to be built in the U.S., smaller and medium enterprises will need to move to the U.S. "Therefore, government support is most needed. I am not sure that is enough, but surely needed support that other competitors were getting from their countries."
Online trading platform Webull soars 375% in second day on market after SPAC merger
Webull, which competes with Robinhood, has racked up 23 million users, including some who signed up after receiving stimulus checks.
The rally gives Webull a market cap of almost $30 billion.
Webull competes with Robinhood, Charles Schwab and E-Trade. The app lets investors buy and sell shares and options in individual securities, exchange-traded funds and cryptocurrencies, and offers charts, watchlists, screening tools and paper trading.
The company says it has over 23 million registered users and operates in 15 regions globally. In addition to charging fees on trades, Webull has a premium tier with real-time data that costs $40 per year.
The rise of blank-check companies such as SK Growth Opportunities peaked in 2021, with 613 IPOs completed, according to SPAC Insider. The market fell apart the following year as soaring inflation and rising interest rates pushed investors out of risky assets. So far this year there have been 23 SPAC IPOs.
Webull said last year that it was planning for its market debut to take place in the second half of 2024.
“This long-term partnership with Baseload Capital, which includes an equity investment in the company, represents our latest step to accelerate the deployment of geothermal as a 24/7 clean energy technology across the Asia Pacific and globally,” Google noted.
“We are working to develop and commercialize the next generation of geothermal technologies through our enhanced geothermal project with Fervo Energy, and to uncover the potential of geothermal around the world with our subsurface data partnership with Project Innerspace. In the Asia-Pacific region, we are also partnering to advance new research into the development of geothermal energy in Australia.”
Google’s AI chip ambitions in Taiwan
Google is currently working with San Jose-based Broadcom to develop AI chips.
However, the company wants to tap Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) for low-cost, premium AI chips.
According to Google, these projects will also contribute to Taiwan’s goal to install 6 GW of geothermal capacity by 2050.
“Building on our longstanding collaboration with the government and utilities in Taiwan to advance local growth of renewables, we’ll continue to work across these sectors on the market development and innovation needed to now help scale geothermal resources,” Google concluded.
The researchers have managed to correlate sounds with behavioral patterns such as courtships, unique names, and dolphin quarrels.
A history of efforts
Experts have believed that it’s possible for man to communicate with cetaceans but the taks has looked impossible due to the lack of advanced technology that can parse and mimic underwater whistles, clicks, and burst pulses of these creatures.
With the rise of large language models (LLMs), researchers recently wondered if the same principles underlying LLMs could be applied to dolphin interactions. WDP partnered with Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology to train the LLM.
This is what DolphinGemma is all about. An AI model that is built on the same technology that runs Google’s Gemini systems. DolphinGemma has around 400 million parameters to function like predictive LLMs like ChatGPT—but for dolphins.
Zuckerberg challenged this definition in court, downplaying friend-based sharing on Meta’s apps and describing Facebook and Instagram as primarily “discovery and entertainment” platforms today.
He cited a failed 2018 push to prioritize posts from real-life connections as evidence that user preferences have shifted.
Meta’s legal team argued the tech firm competes in a much broader digital ecosystem that includes other major platforms. Lead attorney Mark Hansen dismissed the FTC’s claims as “at war with the facts and at war with the law.”
Even if the FTC prevails, it must still convince the court that breaking up Meta would enhance competition. The case, overseen by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, could last up to two months.
If the agency succeeds, Meta could be forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp.
If the export halt extends beyond two months, industry insiders warn that stockpiles could start running dry, triggering major delays in production for everything from electric vehicles to guided weapons systems.
China’s ports jammed as exporters await new license approvals
Across Chinese ports, confusion and delays are mounting. Exporters that hadn’t cleared customs before April 4 have seen their cargo locked down. Some have declared force majeure to avoid penalties on missed deliveries.
Customs enforcement is inconsistent. Some ports allow limited exports if the products aren’t bound for the U.S. or contain only trace amounts of restricted elements. Others demand lab testing before approving any shipment.
The result is growing uncertainty. Dysprosium oxide, one of the key metals affected, now sells for $204 per kilogram in Shanghai, with prices rising faster on international markets.
!summarize #japan #automotive
Human Tooth Grown in Lab
The BBC reported scientists at King's College in London announced they have managed to grow a human tooth.
Scientists at King's College in London announced they have managed to grow a human tooth, the BBC reported.
While it might be a long time before lab-grown teeth can be put in a person's mouth, researchers told the BBC it will assist with their work. While sharks and elephants have the ability to grow new teeth, humans have only one set from adulthood, the scientists found in a study, according to the Independent.
Lab-grown teeth could be a better alternative than implants, which can cause unforeseen problems and require invasive surgery, the researchers said to the BBC.
"Lab-grown teeth would naturally regenerate, integrating into the jaw as real teeth," Xuechen Zhang, a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, told the BBC. "They would be stronger, longer lasting, and free from rejection risks, offering a more durable and biologically compatible solution than fillings or implants."
The scientists were able introduce a material that lets one cell tell another cell to become a tooth cell, mimicking the environment of growing teeth and allowing the scientists to re-create how a tooth is developed, the BBC reported. Previous efforts to re-create this process in the lab had failed, as the cells were unable to communicate effectively, the Independent reported.
"We could transplant the young tooth cells at the location of the missing tooth and let them grow inside mouth," Zhang said to the BBC. "Alternatively, we could create the whole tooth in the lab before placing it in the patient's mouth."
The researchers warned getting a lab tooth into a patient's mouth could take years.
"Will it come in my lifetime of practice? Possibly," Saiorse O'Toole, a clinical lecturer in prosthodontics at King's College, told the BBC. "In my children's dental lifetimes? Maybe. But in my children's children's lifetimes, hopefully."
!summarize #robots #jobs #ai #dystopia
"Because we are so lean and mean, and because we have set up all of our systems from scratch ... we have been able to not only increase our profits, but also offer very good interest rates in the European market in general, and in the Netherlands specifically," Niknam said.
More recently, central banks in the EU and U.K. and U.S. have moved to slash interest rates in response to falling inflation and concerns of an economic slowdown, which can bite into bank earnings.
Niknam said he's not concerned by the prospect of rates coming down and expects potential declines in interest income to be offset by a "diversified" revenue mix that includes income from paid subscription products, as well as new features. Bunq recently launched a tool that lets users trade stocks.
"This is different in continental Europe to the U.K. We had negative interest rates for long," Niknam told CNBC. "So as we were growing, actually our cost base was also growing because we had to pay for all the deposits that people deposited a Bunq so I think we're in a great position in 2025
!summarize #tariffs #china #economy
U.S. announces probe into chip, electronics imports, paving the way for new tariffs
The U.S. Commerce Department is conducting an investigation into imports of various semiconductor technologies and electronics, a federal notice shows.
The U.S. Commerce Department is conducting a national security investigation into imports of semiconductor technology and related downstream products, according to a Federal Register notice put online Monday.
The official document — which calls for public comments on the investigation — further confirms that chips and the electronics supply chain will not be excluded from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff plans despite his statement on Friday that many of those products were exempt from his "reciprocal tariffs."
!summarize #arson #pennsylvania #governor #bukele #whitehouse
While exemptions have been made on various electronics products, including smartphones, computers and semiconductors, Trump and some officials said over the weekend that the reprieve was temporary and part of plans to apply separate tariffs to the sector.
The semiconductor investigation — first initiated by the secretary of commerce on April 1 — sets the grounds for such tariffs to come into effect.
The justification is being used for a similar investigation on pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients, which was also disclosed on Monday.
The U.S. is heavily dependent on semiconductor technology imported from markets like Taiwan, South Korea, and the Netherlands.
However, for years, Washington has been implementing policies aimed at onshoring more of the semiconductor supply chain, including through industrial policies such as the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act.
!summarize #jonstewart #msnbs #media #politics
Adobe, a creative technology powerhouse valued at roughly $150 billion, is best known for the Photoshop image editing tool. The company also makes Premiere Pro, a video editing platform widely used by professionals in broadcast media, advertising and other industries.
"We're building the world's leading AI video platform for enterprise, and Adobe's investment validates that direction," Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli told CNBC. "We share a vision: democratizing high-quality content creation and making enterprise communication faster and more effective."
!summarize #collapse #Unitedsstates #tariffs #goods
The startup remains lossmaking, however — and is not focusing on making a profit anytime soon.
In 2023, Synthesia reported a pre-tax loss of £25.2 million on revenues of £25.7 million, according to a U.K. Companies House filing. Profitability is "not an immediate focus," Riparbelli told CNBC. "But the path is clear."
"We've never chased growth at any cost," Synthesia's CEO said, adding the company still had cash left over from a 2023 funding round when it raised funds again earlier this year.
Synthesia was most recently valued at $2.1 billion in an investment round announced in January. Its rivals include Colossyan, DeepBrain AI, Invideo AI, Filmora and Veed.io. The startup also faces competition from OpenAI, whose text-to-video model Sora can create realistic video clips based on user prompts.
!summarize #jasminecrockett #congress #election #fraud #usaid
!summarize #tesla #automotive #ev
Other measures include introducing training and research programs for domestic master's and doctoral students as well as global joint research programs for foreign talent.
South Korea is home to some of the world's top chipmakers, including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, with semiconductors a key export of the country.
On Tuesday, the South Korean Kospi was up 0.68%, with Samsung climbing 1.07% and SK Hynix up 0.17%.
In 2024, South Korea's exports of semiconductors stood at $141.9 billion, just over 20% of the country's $683.6 billion exports.
If semiconductor plants need to be built in the U.S., smaller and medium enterprises will need to move to the U.S. "Therefore, government support is most needed. I am not sure that is enough, but surely needed support that other competitors were getting from their countries."
!summarize #trump #tariff #billoreilly #trade #polls
Online trading platform Webull soars 375% in second day on market after SPAC merger
Webull, which competes with Robinhood, has racked up 23 million users, including some who signed up after receiving stimulus checks.
The rally gives Webull a market cap of almost $30 billion.
Webull competes with Robinhood, Charles Schwab and E-Trade. The app lets investors buy and sell shares and options in individual securities, exchange-traded funds and cryptocurrencies, and offers charts, watchlists, screening tools and paper trading.
The company says it has over 23 million registered users and operates in 15 regions globally. In addition to charging fees on trades, Webull has a premium tier with real-time data that costs $40 per year.
!summarize #illonois #bretbielema #college #football #illinois
The rise of blank-check companies such as SK Growth Opportunities peaked in 2021, with 613 IPOs completed, according to SPAC Insider. The market fell apart the following year as soaring inflation and rising interest rates pushed investors out of risky assets. So far this year there have been 23 SPAC IPOs.
Webull said last year that it was planning for its market debut to take place in the second half of 2024.
!summarize #hollywood #minecraft #movie #gaming
“This long-term partnership with Baseload Capital, which includes an equity investment in the company, represents our latest step to accelerate the deployment of geothermal as a 24/7 clean energy technology across the Asia Pacific and globally,” Google noted.
“We are working to develop and commercialize the next generation of geothermal technologies through our enhanced geothermal project with Fervo Energy, and to uncover the potential of geothermal around the world with our subsurface data partnership with Project Innerspace. In the Asia-Pacific region, we are also partnering to advance new research into the development of geothermal energy in Australia.”
Google’s AI chip ambitions in Taiwan
Google is currently working with San Jose-based Broadcom to develop AI chips.
However, the company wants to tap Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) for low-cost, premium AI chips.
According to Google, these projects will also contribute to Taiwan’s goal to install 6 GW of geothermal capacity by 2050.
“Building on our longstanding collaboration with the government and utilities in Taiwan to advance local growth of renewables, we’ll continue to work across these sectors on the market development and innovation needed to now help scale geothermal resources,” Google concluded.
!summarize #china #sony #gameconsoles #gaming
The researchers have managed to correlate sounds with behavioral patterns such as courtships, unique names, and dolphin quarrels.
A history of efforts
Experts have believed that it’s possible for man to communicate with cetaceans but the taks has looked impossible due to the lack of advanced technology that can parse and mimic underwater whistles, clicks, and burst pulses of these creatures.
With the rise of large language models (LLMs), researchers recently wondered if the same principles underlying LLMs could be applied to dolphin interactions. WDP partnered with Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology to train the LLM.
This is what DolphinGemma is all about. An AI model that is built on the same technology that runs Google’s Gemini systems. DolphinGemma has around 400 million parameters to function like predictive LLMs like ChatGPT—but for dolphins.
!SUMMARIZE #NYMETS #NYYANKEES #mlb
Zuckerberg challenged this definition in court, downplaying friend-based sharing on Meta’s apps and describing Facebook and Instagram as primarily “discovery and entertainment” platforms today.
He cited a failed 2018 push to prioritize posts from real-life connections as evidence that user preferences have shifted.
Meta’s legal team argued the tech firm competes in a much broader digital ecosystem that includes other major platforms. Lead attorney Mark Hansen dismissed the FTC’s claims as “at war with the facts and at war with the law.”
Even if the FTC prevails, it must still convince the court that breaking up Meta would enhance competition. The case, overseen by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, could last up to two months.
If the agency succeeds, Meta could be forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp.
!summarize #relationships #dating #open
If the export halt extends beyond two months, industry insiders warn that stockpiles could start running dry, triggering major delays in production for everything from electric vehicles to guided weapons systems.
China’s ports jammed as exporters await new license approvals
Across Chinese ports, confusion and delays are mounting. Exporters that hadn’t cleared customs before April 4 have seen their cargo locked down. Some have declared force majeure to avoid penalties on missed deliveries.
Customs enforcement is inconsistent. Some ports allow limited exports if the products aren’t bound for the U.S. or contain only trace amounts of restricted elements. Others demand lab testing before approving any shipment.
The result is growing uncertainty. Dysprosium oxide, one of the key metals affected, now sells for $204 per kilogram in Shanghai, with prices rising faster on international markets.
!summarize #ericboiling #tariff #trump