#56 Daily Tech: Nuclear energy is clean

Nuclear energy is clean

The argument is well known: nuclear power causes pollution with nuclear waste for many millennia. Our children’s children may not even know how dangerous it all is, they say. Let’s tackle this argument once and for all: nuclear waste is not an actual problem.

AMD passes Intel in market cap

The milestone also suggests that investors may value an asset-light chipmaker over one that's investing heavily in manufacturing.

Leaked internal memo reveals Amazon’s anti-union strategies

Leaked memo reveals Amazon’s plan to “neutralize” powerful unions by hiring ex-inmates and “vulnerable students”.

Why the end of Optane is bad news for all IT

The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped. The influence of ideas from the late 1960s and early 1970s is now so pervasive that almost nobody can imagine anything else, and the best ideas from the following generation are mostly forgotten.

MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body

MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The stamp-sized device sticks to skin and can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours.

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