Research teams from the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University use AI and electrodes to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)

Clive Cookson / Financial Times:Research teams from the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University use AI and electrodes to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar  —  Scientists use electrodes and AI programs to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar

Weak links make strong polymers

Chemists from MIT and Duke University have discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger. Working with polyacrylate elastomers, which are polymer networks made from strands of acrylate held together by linking molecules, the researchers found that they could increase the materials’ resistance to tearing up to nearly tenfold by […]

Tel Aviv-based Grip Security, which helps companies reduce their SaaS identity risk, raised a $41M Series B led by Third Point, taking its total funding to $66M (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:Tel Aviv-based Grip Security, which helps companies reduce their SaaS identity risk, raised a $41M Series B led by Third Point, taking its total funding to $66M  —  Grip Security, which provides businesses with the tools to protect their SaaS applications and describes itself as the …