What moved this week.
Developments across the technologies, markets and research the platform watches. Hover a story to read it here, open it for the brief and the link to the source.
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Nanowerk
Solvent vapor triggers coordinated molecular motion in microscopic crystals
Newer so-called “soft crystals” can be modified more easily. Now, researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo and the Graduate School of Science, University of Hyogo have used sophisticated instruments to learn much more about these unusual…
Nanowerk
Single-fiber imaging achieves video-rate speeds for future minimally invasive endoscopy
However, traditional high-resolution endoscopes face severe physical limitations; bulky pixelated detector arrays (like CMOS or CCD) cannot be miniaturized to the hundred-micron scale required to access highly constrained anatomical regions, such as the deep brain, without…
Business Insider
A serial entrepreneur raised $17 million to build a Big Law alternative. Read the pitch deck.
Mac Liu isn't a lawyer, but he knows how to build a tech startup. The two-time founder is betting that edge will separate his new law firm from a crowded field of neofirms.
Melia Robinson
Business Insider
The Fed and bond market are sending opposite signals ahead of a crucial jobs report
The Fed gives an update on interest rates every month or two. But what investors think the central bank will do next can shift in less than a day.
HTN
Initial HTN Now 2027 schedule launched: NHS Online Trust, EPRs, AVT, digital inclusion, workforce skills, neighbourhoods
HTN is delighted to announce our initialHTN Nowwebinar schedule for 2027, where we will be sure to share digital and health tech projects, learnings, approaches and best practices across health and care!
Business Insider
An investor turned a century-old house into a rental that cash flows $2,500 a month. He shares how he financed it with 5% down.
Peter Keane-Rivera has specific criteria when he shops for investment properties.
Kathleen Elkins
Business Insider
Trump is right, 'Artificial Intelligence' is a bad name. I suggest 'Robo-Doodad.'
Regardless of your politics, there's something about President Donald Trump we can all agree on: When the man wants to come up with a nickname for someone or something … let him cook.
Business Insider
In my 80s, I moved to the Philippines to better afford long-term care. I plan to live the rest of my life here.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lemuel Bray, 85, who moved to the Philippines to better afford long-term care. He said his cost of living is lower, and the care he is receiving exceeds what he received in the US.
Noah Sheidlower
Business Insider
The latest ploy to get you to spend more money: Bizarre cross-brand collabs
It seems as though every day brings a new announcement from an odd-couple pairing of companies (or a company and a celebrity) about some sort of co-branded product.
Emily Stewart
Clean Energy Wire
Merz touts green technology’s growth potential, calls for international carbon markets
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stressed the importance of Germany’s green technology sector for the country’s economic future, pointing to innovation in renewable energy production and energy efficiency as key elements of his government’s sustainability strategy.
BenjaminWehrmann