Samsung nixes modularity to make MicroLED TV consumer-ready

[Home Entertainment]( [Samsung nixes modularity to make MicroLED TV consumer-ready]( [Samsung's 110 in MicroLED TV has a resolution of 4K and displays 100 percent of the DCI and Adobe RGB color gamuts]( A few years ago Samsung unveiled The Wall, a huge display that was more billboard than home entertainment. Now it is bringing the technology behind it, MicroLED, to consumer-ready TVs, although we’d imagine it's still too much for most people to handle. [Read more]( Special Promotion for New Atlas Readers [Entertain your kids at home with this DIY drone, now 61% off]( The Building Block Stem Drone teaches kids aerodynamics and load balance, while also having a blast. They'll be able to customize a design and program the robot to perform spectacular tricks--all with their own two hands. [Read more]( [Automotive]( [Bentley completes its first reverse-engineered 1929 Blower]( [The master copy of Bentley's new, old Blower has been built and driven, a painstakingly accurate replica of the Team Blower originally built and raced by Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin in the late 1920s]( Bentley is 40,000 man-hours into its painstaking reverse-engineered, laser-scanned copy of the 1929 Bentley Blower, and has just announced the completion of "car zero" – the master prototype from which 12 "Continuation Series" cars will be built. [Read more]( [Space]( [SpaceX's Starship hits high altitude, explodes in fireball on return]( [SpaceX's Starship prototype makes an explosive landing attempt]( SpaceX's Starship has reached magnificent new heights, today climbing to high altitude before exploding in a spectacular fireball during a landing attempt. Despite this, the first sub-orbital flight of the SN8 prototype was largely a successful one. [Read more]( [Architecture]( [London gets taste of the high life with new elevated park]( [Bishopsgate Goodsyard will measure approximately 4.4 hectares (10.8 acres)]( New York City's High Line elevated park has been such a success that the basic idea has been copied worldwide. A slice of the Big Apple is now coming to the Big Smoke with a new raised park for London that will include housing, retail, and offices. [Read more]( [Science]( [Tomatoes engineered to produce vital Parkinson’s disease medicine]( [A tomato engineered to produced L-DOPA, a drug used to treat Parkinson's disease]( Scientists have genetically modified a tomato to produce L-DOPA, a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease. The researchers say the innovation could be an easier way to produce the medicine in regions where access to the synthesized drug is restricted. [Read more]( [Environment]( [Ocean Cleanup gets ready to tackle world's most polluting rivers]( [For the third generation Interceptor, improvements have been made to the conveyor, shuttle, dumpsters and barge]( The Ocean Cleanup is ramping up production of its Interceptor plastic trash removers in partnership with Konecranes, with a thousand of the world's most heavily polluting rivers in its sights. [Read more]( [Environment]( [Blunt-bladed hydro turbine packs fish-friendliness into a small unit]( [The RHT turbine is designed to be built into new hydroelectric projects, or retrofitted into existing ones]( Hydroelectric turbines may indeed be a non-polluting source of electricity, but their spinning blades can nonetheless kill larger fish that are passing through. A new type is designed not to do so, while maintaining a compact form factor. [Read more]( [Medical]( [Harvard study finds fatty diets may feed cancer and starve immune cells]( [Levels of CD8+ T cells (red) in tumors (cyan) appear to be higher in mice on lower-fat diets (top row) than those on high-fat diets (bottom row)]( A new Harvard study highlights missing pieces of the puzzle in the relationship between cancer and obesity. The team finds that cancer cells can use the higher fat availability to starve immune cells of fuel and prevent them from targeting tumors. [Read more]( [Military]( [Macron says France's next aircraft carrier will be nuclear-powered]( [Artist's concept of the PANG]( President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will replace the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle with a nuclear-powered carrier in 2038. Once completed, the carrier will displace 75,000 tonnes, have a length of 980 ft and carry a crew of 2,000. [Read more]( [Environment]( [Stingrays demonstrate mapping potential as they skim the seafloor]( [Stingrays may one day help us map the seafloor, according to a new study]( It is said that we know more about the surface of Mars than the seafloor. A new technique could help us fill in the blanks by using deep-dwelling rays to survey the seabed for us, and possibly even power the required hardware themselves. [Read more]( [Medical]( [Glucose earring concept imagines blood sugar tracking via the earlobe]( [The Sense Glucose Earring would pierce the earlobe and pulse high-frequency radio waves through the surrounding tissue as a way of measuring blood sugar levels]( An imaginative new concept for diabetes management is a student-designed earring that tracks blood glucose levels via the earlobe. The creator hopes it can one day help children with the condition more discretely manage their condition. [Read more]( [Science]( [Smartphone camera and CRISPR technology combine for rapid COVID-19 test]( [A prototype device that uses a smartphone camera as part of a COVID-19 rapid diagnostic test]( A rapid COVID-19 test promises accurate results in under 30 minutes using a simple hand-held device, a nasal swab and a smartphone camera. The technology can also be modified to detect other viral diseases. [Read more]( [Robotics]( [Soft aquatic robot activated by light and magnets to quickly crawl]( [The soft robot can curl up to walk and carry objects, and lay flat to release them]( Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new soft robot that can walk at roughly the speed of a human, activated by light and magnetic fields. The robot can squeeze into tight spaces and pick up, carry and release objects on demand. [Read more]( [Marine]( [Place-trading AUVs designed for longer oceanographic missions]( [A diagram illustrating the Terradepth system]( Although AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) excel at gathering marine data without human intervention, they're still limited by battery life. Texas startup Terradepth has set out to address that problem, with a novel tag-team system. [Read more]( [Health & Wellbeing]( [Smartphone attachment enables vision testing at home]( [The EyeQue VisionCheck 2 uses a smartphone attachment and mobile app to test for refractive error at home]( California's EyeQue has launched a Kickstarter for a vision test system called the VisionCheck 2 that makes use of a smartphone attachment and an app to provide personalized eye tests in the comfort of a user's home. [Read more]( [Environment]( ["New" microbe could find use in more efficient sewage treatment]( [Lead scientists Assoc. Prof. He Jianzhong (left) and Dr. Wang Qingkun, with a wastewater sample containing SND5 bacteria]( Nitrogen and phosphorus are two of the key pollutants that have to be removed from sewage, and doing so typically involves two separate steps. Thanks to a newly-discovered bacterium, however, both could soon be removed at once. [Read more]( You are receiving this email because you signed up for our daily newsletter at [newatlas.com]( (or [gizmag.com]( before August 2016). [Update profile]( | [Unsubscribe]( Copyright New Atlas © 2020