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Welcome to Decrypted, Digital Trends' daily newsletter guiding you through the latest news in the world of tech, with insights from our senior writers. |
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Amid the weirdness and constant news cycle of 2020, you might have missed a bizarre astronomy tidbit: Researchers spotted an object, called 2020 SO, which appeared to be a second moon in orbit around our planet.
Dubbed a "minimoon," this object turned out to have a story all its own. On December 1, 2020, object 2020 SO made its closest approach to Earth, and since then it has been within Earth's gravity. But now it's about to leave our planet's orbit and head off into the blackness of space. |
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Richard Borsenstein has a big Idea: To grow plant tissues in a lab.
It sounds a bit odd, but picture the potential applications: Rather than having to cut down forests to produce wood — to give one example of a plant tissue — you could instead grow the material rapidly through a chemical process in a way that has considerably smaller planetary impact. You could even tweak its mechanical properties or its geometry. Imagine, for example, growing a stronger wooden table in one solid piece. No tree planting, milling, transportation, soil, or sunlight necessary.
"We have this increasing demand for products and foodstuff as the population continues to grow," Ashley Beckwith, a Draper Fellow and Ph.D. candidate at MIT who is working on the project, told Digital Trends. "Ultimately, there's a lot more competition for arable land than there used to be. At some point, the lands available to us may not be able to provide all that we ask of it. We need to start finding alternative and more strategic ways to produce these plant-based materials." |
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Wait. Yet another op-ed crowing about the death of cable TV? Haven't we heard this like a million times before?
Yes, it's true: Digital Trends, along with virtually every other publication and pundit that observes technology has been making this prediction on a regular basis for years. But here and now, in 2021, the end of cable has a deeper feeling of inevitability than ever before. Here's why. |
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