Yet another floating mass of microscopic plastic has been discovered in the ocean, and it is mind-blowingly vast.

Microsoft has declined to patch a vulnerability in the Server Message Block (SMB) file sharing protocol that affects all versions of the Windows operating system released in the past two decades, since Windows 2000.

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Ups and downs are so ingrained in this business that crazy success in the Permian Basin is seen as an omen that a downturn looms.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Stanford University create a 3D-printed vaccine patch with microneedles that dissolve into the skin.

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A half-mile long trash-trapping system named \

Delivery of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to the skin of mice via microarray patches provides complete protection from challenge.

On October 20, 2021, we officially announced that after the successful completion of System 002 test campaign, we have achieved proof of technology and are ready to return to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and start the cleanup.

To celebrate this milestone…

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