DIY genetic engineering is about to explode: Implanting RFID chips under your skin is so 2017. Modifying your own DNA is where it’s at now, and the ethical questions are only just beginning to be asked.

In 2018, you can buy a “Genetic Engineering Home Lab Kit” for around $2,000. For beginners, $159 will get you a “DIY Bacterial Gene Engineering CRISPR Kit”. It includes “everything you need to make precision genome edits in bacteria at home” for an example experiment, “allowing the bacteria to survive on Strep media which would normally prevent its growth”. And there’s more.

Researchers have developed a “highly stretchable rechargeable lithium ion battery” for the next generation of wearable electronics

The next generation of wearable electronic devices may carry one new innovation in tow: stretchable lithium-ion batteries. Currently, the typical wearable is powered by conventional types of batteries, meaning that devices usually have to be built around the battery itself. Batteries count as one of the major components of most electronic devices, so this really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.

Google tampers with search results yet again, this time for “Guns”

Google tampers with search results yet again. Is this surprising? No, but the question is – why? We could probably figure out why, after we figure out what they trying to promote or test by tampering with the search engine. It is all mostly done by AI now, which means after the intent is set, the motion to implement begins. This is an obvious indication that someone in Google has an agenda that they are trying to push.

White House 1600 Daily: ‘Turn our grief into action’

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence addressed nearly 80 percent of the Nation’s governors yesterday at a bipartisan business session at the White House. Although the President highlighted many successes from the past year—including tax reform and early signs that tough sanctions against North Korea are working—he told attendees that one issue should be at the top of everyone’s mind.

Broward sheriff ‘proud member of Team Obama’

In the wake of news reports indicating as many as four Broward County Sheriff’s deputies had their pistols drawn and were taking cover behind their vehicles after an active shooter went on a killing spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a disgusted President Trump vowed he would have stormed the school to save the kids – even if he had no weapon.

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