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Photovoltaic Polymer Lets Damaged Retinas See the Light

Italian Institute of Technology Researchers Use Photovoltaic Polymer to Restore Light Detection to Damaged Retinas

A team of neuroscientists and materials scientists has shown that a photovoltaic polymer can restore light-sensing capabilities to damaged retinas, offering hope of a simple way to restore vision to many people with degenerative eye disease.

One day…

Related article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/512511/photovoltaic-polymer-lets-damaged-retinas-see-the-light/

Sync: BitTorrent’s personal file syncing app

As new cloud services are launched and hosting capacity is no more a feature that would make the difference we’re hearing more about how new products are going to make our data more private and secure at the cloud.

Here is what BitTorrent told to GigaOm about their personal multiplatform file syncing application Sync:

Sync will enable direct synchronization between your machines without any cloud caching. File transfers will be protected via 256 bit AES encryption. There are native apps for Mac OS, Windows and Linux, as well as a native NAS integration.

via BitTorrent is working on a personal file syncing app to compete with Dropbox — Tech News and Analysis.

“Safari is released to the world”

Insights and brief history of early days of Safari by Don Melton, one of the creators of Apple’s browser and WebKit project:

Safari is released to the world

During the early development of Safari, I didn’t just worry about leaking our secret project through Apple’s IP address or our browser’s user agent string. It also concerned me that curious gawkers on the outside would notice who I was hiring at Apple.