Published on: 2025-05-06 19:30:00
As soon as Colossal Biosciences declared that it brought the dire wolf back from extinction, everyone felt a sense of wonder. George R.R. Martin himself, who popularized the dire wolf as Jon Snow’s Ghost in A Song of Ice and Fire, posed for a picture with the pups to be part of a historic scientific achievement. He wept at the sight of the snowy fur of the white wolves. To me, along with Colossal Biosciences’ other work of making mice with the hair of wooly mammoths, the work was a reminder of
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Editor's take: The internet is vast, sprawling across server farms, fiber-optic cables, and satellites. But beyond its physical infrastructure, does the internet – the data, the information, the very essence of cyberspace – have any measurable weight? The question might sound absurd, yet it's one that physicists and thinkers have pondered for years. After all, Einstein's famous equation, E = mc², tells us that energy has mass. And since storing and transmitting data consumes energy, it follows t
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The first major frontier of “de-extinction” has just been crossed. Earlier today, the company Colossal Biosciences reported that its scientists have successfully brought back a version of the dire wolf—purportedly the first such resurrection of a previously extinct species. Colossal announced its seismic accomplishment Monday morning, accompanied by a lengthy cover article in Time magazine. Using a combination of gene-editing and surrogate dogs, the company has reportedly bred three sibling dir
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Extinction is a part of nature. Of the five billion species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 per cent have vanished. The Late Devonian extinction, nearly four hundred million years ago, annihilated the jawless fish. The Triassic-Jurassic extinction, two hundred million years ago, finished off the crocodile-like phytosaur. Sixty-six million years ago, the end-Cretaceous extinction eliminated the Tyrannosaurus rex and the velociraptor; rapid climate change from an asteroid impact was the likely ca
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At-home DNA kits allow anyone to learn more about their heritage, family history and even medical predispositions. Based on our research and testing, we’ve found that Ancestry is the best DNA kit you can get. To learn more about DNA kits, we outlined the pros, cons and factors to consider. Editors' note: This article previously compared 23andMe and Ancestry. However, 23andMe has experienced a data breach, subsequent lawsuit, board members' resignations and layoffs amidst financial struggles and
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DNA testing has become a valuable tool for hobbyists and novice genealogists. For some, learning they are the 10th cousin of Paul Revere or the 15th great nephew four times removed of the last King of Prussia is worth the perceived risk of sharing a DNA sample. But what happens when the company harvesting the DNA goes bankrupt? That was the question posed to millions of Americans last week when 23andMe, the company that popularized consumer genetic testing and had early backing from Google, fil
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23andMe, the company whose mail-in self-testing kits became synonymous with DNA testing, is filing for bankruptcy amid slowing sales four years after it went public. Anne Wojcicki, who co-founded 23andMe in 2006, is stepping down as CEO as the company tries to find a buyer. In January, 23andMe said it was exploring options for a sale amid slowing demand for its product and the fallout of a major data breach in 2023. In 2024, the company agreed to a financial settlement for the breach, which aff
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Image by Getty / Futurism Genetics Genetics firm 23andMe, maker of the once-popular take-home DNA testing kits, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, casting a looming shadow over the extremely sensitive user data it's still storing on its servers. The company, which was founded almost two decades ago, has been in severely dire financial traits for years now, struggling to effectively monetize its service, which most customers will only buy once. Now, its cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki — a di
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The three services above are our top choices for the best DNA test. They weren't the only ones we tested. What follows are some additional options, none of which eclipsed the 23andMe, Ancestry or FamilyTreeDNA tests in any significant fashion. MyHeritage MyHeritage/Screenshot by CNET MyHeritage offers a free tier of service that includes some basic family tree-building and access to excerpts of historical documents. It also includes a report of your genetic makeup across the company's 42 supp
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What just happened? DNA testing specialist 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in order to facilitate a sale. Mark Jensen, chair and member of the special committee of the board of directors, said that after a thorough evaluation, it was decided that a court-supervised sale process would be the best path forward to maximize the value of the business. 23andMe was founded in 2006 as a direct-to-consumer genetics testing specialist and became a publicly traded company in June 20
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Forward-looking: Researchers around the world are embracing DNA-based storage right now. Mixing digital data and biology could bridge the best of both worlds, though a few challenges are still slowing market and industry adoption. Visionary solutions using DNA sequencing have been hailed as the future of the storage world for a few years now. Biology seems to have solved the data encoding problem a few billion years ago, so we could learn a thing or two from nature while we prepare to expand th
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23andMe, the company whose mail-in self-testing kits became synonymous with DNA testing, is filing for bankruptcy amid slowing sales four years after it went public. Anne Wojcicki, who co-founded 23andMe in 2006, is stepping down as CEO as the company tries to find a buyer. In January, 23andMe said it was exploring options for a sale amid slowing demand for its product and the fallout of a major data breach in 2023. In 2024, the company agreed to a financial settlement for the breach, which aff
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Forward-looking: Researchers around the world are embracing DNA-based storage right now. Mixing digital data and biology could bridge the best of both worlds, though a few challenges are still slowing market and industry adoption. Visionary solutions using DNA sequencing have been hailed as the future of the storage world for a few years now. Biology seems to have solved the data encoding problem a few billion years ago, so we could learn a thing or two from nature while we prepare to expand th
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The internet is massive. But does it have … actual mass? Big server farms and miles of fiber-optic cables do, of course, but we don’t mean the infrastructure of the internet. We mean the internet itself. The information. The data. The cybernetics. And because storing and moving stuff through cyberspace requires energy—which, per Einstein, has mass—it should, in theory, be possible to calculate the internet’s weight. Way back in the adolescent days of the web, in 2006, a Harvard physicist named
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DNA testing site 23andMe files for bankruptcy protection Popular DNA testing firm 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy protection, and announced that its co-founder and CEO, Anne Wojcicki, has resigned with immediate effect. The company will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court. 23andMe said in a press release that it plans to continue operating throughout the sale process and that there "are no changes to the way the company stores, manages, or protects customer data." On
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AMD's RDNA 4 brings a variety of memory subsystem enhancements. Among those, one slide stood out because it dealt with out-of-order memory accesses. According to the slide, RDNA 4 allows requests from different shaders to be satisfied out-of-order, and adds new out-of-order queues for memory requests. Cross-Wave Out-of-Order Memory Accesses AMD apparently had a false dependency case in the memory subsystem prior to RDNA 4. One wave could wait for a memory loads made by another wave. A "wavefro
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AMD's RDNA 4 brings a variety of memory subsystem enhancements. Among those, one slide stood out because it dealt with out-of-order memory accesses. According to the slide, RDNA 4 allows requests from different shaders to be satisfied out-of-order, and adds new out-of-order queues for memory requests. Cross-Wave Out-of-Order Memory Accesses AMD apparently had a false dependency case in the memory subsystem prior to RDNA 4. One wave could wait for a memory loads made by another wave. A "wavefro
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Sample collection For reagent testing, we collected ten unmodified faunal remains, similar in and size and shape to material used in artefact production, from the late Middle Palaeolithic and early Upper Palaeolithic deposits of the French sites Quinçay (seven) and Les Cottés (three) (Extended Data Table 1 and Extended Data Fig. 2). The estimated ages of these specimens range from 55 to 35 kyr21,37,38. Non-destructive DNA extraction was then applied to 15 osseous specimens excavated at Quinçay
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Quirks and Quarks 7:32 20,000 deer-tooth pendant carries the DNA of the person who wore it Scientists have discovered a woman's DNA preserved in a 20,000 year old deer-tooth pendant. The artifact, which was discovered in 2019 in the Altai Mountains of Siberia, was analyzed by a German research team that developed advanced techniques for extracting and studying ancient DNA. "This was exactly what we were hoping for," said geneticist Elena Essel, a member of the team at the Max Planck Institute
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Quirks and Quarks 7:32 20,000 deer-tooth pendant carries the DNA of the person who wore it Scientists have discovered a woman's DNA preserved in a 20,000 year old deer-tooth pendant. The artifact, which was discovered in 2019 in the Altai Mountains of Siberia, was analyzed by a German research team that developed advanced techniques for extracting and studying ancient DNA. "This was exactly what we were hoping for," said geneticist Elena Essel, a member of the team at the Max Planck Institute
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This week saw the release of some fascinating news about some very furry rodents—so-called “woolly mice”—created as part of an experiment to explore how we might one day resurrect the woolly mammoth. The idea of bringing back extinct species has gained traction thanks to advances in sequencing of ancient DNA. This ancient genetic data is deepening our understanding of the past—for instance, by shedding light on interactions among prehistoric humans. But researchers are becoming more ambitious
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Following up on its CES announcement, AMD dropped some more information about its upcoming Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT RDNA 4 chips -- notably the target pricing of $549 and $599 -- to address 1440p and 4K players, respectively. And they'll be available from its add-in-board partners, such as Acer, Asus, Sapphire, XFX, ASRock, Gigabyte, PowerColor and more, on March 6. AMD says these cards are "built for 4K gaming at a 1440p price," comparable to the recent Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti.
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Advanced Micro Devices is unveiling its Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics chips. The graphics cards will be available on March 6, 2025. They will go up against some tough competition in the form of Nvidia’s imminently shipping GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards, which CEO Jensen Huang unveiled with great fanfare at CES 2025. AMD intends to compete in lower price bands against Nvidia. I spoke with Frank Azor, at AMD, about the competition during CES. In our interview, I asked who buys $2,800 gra
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