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Humans are integrating with technology. Not in the future – now. With the emergence of custom prosthetics that make us stronger and faster, neural implants that change how our brains work, and new senses and abilities that you’ve never dreamed of having, it’s time to start imagining what a better version of you might look like.
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Some call it transhumanism. It’s not a philosophy cybernetics expert Kevin Warwick associates himself with, but he can’t deny he’s a cyborg… or was. Warwick had a 2.5cm-long radio frequency identification (RFID) chip implanted in his arm in 1998.
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We did one of the [
Takeaways] last year without an audience at all, and that was really odd. It was really weird, Dec told us in issue 6 of our Apple News+ magazine. And then the series we did of
BGT, the live semi-finals and the final – that was with a virtual audience on screen as well. Like everything with COVID, everything you do seems to be 20% harder to achieve, whether it s a meeting or anything. It just makes everything a little bit harder. ITV You don t get that instant feedback. But that s what we re working on, on our virtual wall, to try and cut down delays to an absolute minimum and make it much more of a two-way exchange with our audience. So we re working hard on that. But it does affect you.
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Ant and Dec talk about reviving their classic show on Netflix
Will we ever see the return of
PokerFace?
The return of
Ant & Dec s Saturday Night Takeaway is just around the corner, but will fans of the beloved duo ever get to see a comeback of some of their older shows? Say,
PokerFace?
PokerFace is interesting because we did two series of it, which were successful, and it sold around the world. And then we came off, and we didn t do any more, because we gave away a million pounds to the winner – actually, that s probably a bit high, Ant explained.
10 February 2021
Professor Molly Stevens has won the FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award in recognition of her outstanding scientific achievements.
Professor Stevens, of Imperial College London’s Departments of Materials and Bioengineering, receives the award for her innovative bioengineering approach that addresses key problems in regenerative medicine and biosensing.
I am humbled by this award, which is a fantastic recognition of all the work that my team of brilliant researchers does. Professor Molly Stevens Department of Materials
She leads the multidisciplinary Stevens Group, whose research has advanced the understanding of biomaterial surfaces. Their results have led to the invention of new biosensing approaches and enabled the development of point-of-care tests for tumours and viruses such as coronavirus, HIV and ebolavirus.