Technicity Kaleidoscope — 041524

Apple Plans to Overhaul Entire Mac Line With AI-Focused M4 Chips.
Using A Hopping Robot For Asteroid Exploration.
Novel Fabrication Technique Takes Transition Metal Telluride Nanosheets From Lab To Mass Production.
Adding A Telescopic Leg Beneath A Quadcopter To Create A Hopping Drone.
AI-Powered 'Sonar' On Smart Glasses Tracks Gaze And Facial Expressions.
Light-Based Chip: China's Taichi Could Power Artificial General Intelligence.
This Chinese EV Could Be The World's First Mass-Produced Car With A Solid-State Battery.
Vulcan Energy Starts Its First Lithium Chloride Production In Germany.
Voltpost Lets Lampposts To Be Retrofitted With EV Chargers In Minutes.

Scientists Found For The First Time A Natural Protein That Follows A Mathematical Pattern Of Self-Similarity.
Researchers Find New Origin Of Deep Brain Waves.
New Study Uncovers How Altered Gene Expression Can Induce Autism.
Serious Flu Damage Prevented by Compound that Blocks Unnecessary Cell Death.
4 Blood Clot Symptoms to Know.
Neuroscientists Discover Building Blocks In Nerve Cells That Last A Life Time.
Blended Antioxidant Supplement Improves Cognition And Memory In Aged Mice.
Scientists Discover First Algae That Can Fix Nitrogen — Thanks To A Tiny Cell Structure.
Chlamydia Vaccine Shows Promise In Early Trial.

Apple saw the steepest decline in iPhone shipments since Covid lockdowns as Chinese sales flagged amid a resurgence from rivals such as Huawei and a ban on foreign devices in the workplace. The 10% drop in the first three months of the year was worse than projected and is at odds with a broader rebound in the smartphone industry.
Tesla Is Laying Off 10% Of Its Workforce As Elon Musk Says It Needs To Be 'Lean, Innovative And Hungry'.
The S&P 500 fell 1.2% on Monday, April 15, 2024, amid heightened tensions in the Middle East and earnings season kicking into gear.
Dealmaking continued to slide in Q1'24. Equity deal volume slipped for an eighth straight quarter to 6,238, putting it in line with levels not seen since 2016/2017. Globally, the US accounted for 39% of deals in the quarter — up 3 percentage points from Q4'23 — while Asia (31%) and Europe (24%) each lost 1 percentage point.

ESA Pulls Off "Blind" Test To Prepare For Juice-Callisto Encounter.
NASA Unveils Probe Bound For Jupiter's Possibly Life-Sustaining Moon.
Mystery of Where Gold and Platinum Come From Deepens After Gargantuan Cosmic Explosion.
NASA Technology Helps Guard Against Lunar Dust.
The Solar System's Smallest Planet May Once Have Been As Large As Earth.
NASA Next-Generation Solar Sail Boom Technology Ready for Launch.
These 3 Stars Are Losing Weight Fast — Thanks To Stellar Winds Way Stronger Than The Sun's.
NASA To Look For New Options To Carry Out Mars Sample Return Program.

BTC, ETH Rise as Hong Kong Bitcoin ETF Applicants Say They Have Been Approved.
Germany's Largest Federal Bank LBBW to Offer Crypto Custody Services With Bitpanda.
UK To Legislate On Cryptoasset Regulatory Framework By End Of July.
Chainlink-Ethereum Integration — Brace Yourself For Bad Weather.
Gold-Backed PAXG Token Spikes to $2.9K Amid Geopolitical Tensions.
'Disable iMessages' ASAP To Avoid Crypto Zero-Day Exploit: Trust Wallet.
The chart below shows Bitcoin's 2% aggregated market depth, or combined value of buy and sell orders within a 2% price range of the market price, in BTC terms. The market depth has dropped to 6.76K BTC, the lowest in at least a year. Weak depth means the market may not absorb large buy/sell orders at stable prices.
Did You Know? In 2013, a Welsh man, James Howells, accidentally discarded a hard drive containing 7,500 Bitcoin. Recognizing its worth of $280 million in 2021, he sought permission from his local council to search a landfill for the drive, offering to share the proceeds.