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With US president Donald Trump booted from Twitter and conservative-friendly social network Parler taken off the internet by Amazon Web Services, the internetâs far-right has become digitally homeless. Or not.
Telegram, the privacy-first messaging app founded and led by Russian exile Pavel Durov, seems poised to give those people a new home. According to data analytics company Sensor Tower, by Sunday the app had become the second-most downloaded in the US. On January 12, Telegram claimed that it had attracted 25 million new users in just 72 hours. Great news for growth â the catch is that some of it can be chalked up to a far-right inundation.
Blackstone’s Solid-State Battery Project Receives Grant from Innosuisse Blackstone Resources AG (SWX: BLS) is pleased to announce that the
Swiss Innovation Agency Innosuisse has approved its grant application and will fund 50 percent of the CHF 1.3 million development project. The project aims to develop solid-state electrolytes and the grant will be used to co-finance a sophisticated manufacturing simulation of 3D-printed solid-state batteries. A research consortium of Blackstone Resources (
BLS), the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (
Empa) and the Bern University of Applied Sciences (
BFH) will upscale the synthesis of solid-state electrolytes developed by
Empa. A solid-state battery can provide repeated, reliable and safe discharges without the potential risk of thermal runaway, explosion or outgassing during frequent use. This means that it can be used within areas and constructions that were previously unthinkable for other batter
Midwife invents a moving mattress to help in childbirth
Anna von Siebenthal demonstrates how to use the Vibwife mattress, which replicates movements that can help to ease labour. Vibwife
As a young midwife, Anna von Siebenthal was frustrated at not having enough time to spend with women in labour. Inspired by a real-life emergency, she developed a special childbirth mattress based on mobilisation technology, soon to be produced by Europe’s largest hospital bed manufacturer.
This content was published on December 16, 2020 - 18:26
December 16, 2020 - 18:26
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“When I was working as a young midwife student in a hospital, we had a woman transferred from a home birth,” Anna says. “She was fully dilated but the baby was not coming out. To get from home to the hospital she was moved on and off the trolley and bumped around a little on the ambulance ride.”
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In this issue, we reflect on the meaning of our thirty-five year
anniversary, making sure we look forward, as well as back. We’re
particularly excited about the guest articles in this edition that
checked in with two important free software projects:
Isabela Bagueros, executive director at the Tor Project, wrote about Tor’s efforts to stay connected to users and integrate user feedback into development without compromising user privacy; and
Christian Grothoff, a professor at Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland, reported on the debut of the GNU Taler free software payment system, which can now be used for actual