Lasers and smart pills could eventually replace injections

Needle-free injectors, also known as air or pneumatic injectors, have been around for a surprisingly long time. They use the pressure generated by spring force, a compressed gas canister, piezoelectric motors or laser-induced cavitation (if we’re getting fancy) to drive a narrow stream of vaporized medicine under the skin and into the fat, muscle and…

Pole Dancing Made It To The Super Bowl. Now It Wants Another Stage: The Olympics

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That quirky e-reader you could draw on is back

The second version of reMarkable, the e-paper table you can doodle on, is now available for pre-order. A Norwegian startup of the same name launched the original version back in 2017 to provide people an easy way to digitize handwritten notes. The company says that reMarkable 2 is “the most paper-like digital device the industry…

India to stage Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games events

Sanjeev Rajput won shooting gold for India at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018India will host the archery and shooting events at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, six months before the main event in Birmingham.The proposal was put forward by India, who threatened to boycott Birmingham 2022 after shooting was excluded.Both events will take place…

Maria Sharapova was one of most successful tennis players ever

New York (CNN Business)There are many ways to measure Maria Sharapova’s success: Five grand slam titles, 36 career wins, a former No. 1 ranking in the world. But those impressive achievements don’t match up with the success she accumulated in her bank account.Sharapova, who announced her retirement Wednesday at the age of 32, leaves as…

Roller Champions closed alpha test kicks off March 11

Ubisoft has a number of new games stewing within its many studios, and one of those is the competitive-skating digital sport Roller Champions. Now, the publisher wants to see how the free-to-play multiplayer game performs in the real world. Ubisoft is kicking off a closed alpha for Roller Champions that begins March 11 and runs…

Ray tracing comes to more games thanks to new software tools

Whether or not developers support the approach depends on their reliance on Vulkan and willingness to implement ray tracing in the first place. Right now, hardware-accelerated ray tracing is only available with a handful of GPUs. Programmers won’t have to throw out their existing knowledge, at least. The Vulkan extensions use a “familiar overall architecture”…