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Space Agencies Are Trying to Keep Astronauts From Losing Their Sight

The European Space Agency is trying to understand why astronauts lose their eyesight in space, in the hope they can figure out how to treat—or even prevent—the condition as looming longer spaceflights heighten the risk of permanent vision damage.

The agency has commissioned British eye-scanning startup Siloton to develop a solution ahead of the international Artemis flights to the moon and other deep space missions. The health tech uses quantum technology to shrink core components used in eye-testing equipment found at optometrists to fit on a photonic chip smaller than a coin.

Founded by physicists in 2020, Siloton is currently working with the UK’s National Health Service to enable patients with retinal conditions to self-scan at home. “The ESA pretty much has the same requirements,” says cofounder and chief technology officer Euan Allen. “It's just in a totally different environment.”

Spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS) is a collection of eye and...

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NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car

PLUS: Infosys to wear Crocs for a decade; Fujifilm may quit printers; 2GW datacenter debuts in western China; and more! ASIA IN BRIEF Japan’s NEC has started tests of parking technology that will start charging once a driver leaves their car. Most car parks record the time a driver

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Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads

ai and ml PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare. KETTLE OpenAI's invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse somehow, Chinese open-weight models are nigh on to reaching parity with their closed-off American cousins, and AI crawlers are

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Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal

OS PLATFORMS He’s not thrilled, but won’t let it delay the release of version 7.2 Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds thinks the project has reached a new normal of supersized updates, thanks to AI. Torvalds posts a weekly state of the kernel update, and last week’s

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Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared WHO, ME? The past may be a foreign country, but it's one The Register likes to explore each Friday in "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column that

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