the article warns that "decades could pass before any anti-aging clinical trials in humans begin, get analyzed and, if safe and successful, scaled to the mass needed for federal approval."

That's like, pre-Covid man!

After Operation Warp Speed, clinical trials are a thing of the past.
Genetic therapies are now tested in production, just like Dr. Mengele intended.

The German Post / DHL started making their own some years ago. They seem to work well, I live in front of a post office and see them coming and going every day:
"Deutsche Post DHL makes its own electric delivery vans" (2016)
https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche...

Over the years, they've increased capacity and added more models:
"DHL's StreetScooter opens second factory as it emerges as an important EV manufacturer" (2018)
https://electrek.co/2018/05/31...

In the US they apparently use vans made by a Ohio-based company:
"DHL adds to green fleet with new electric delivery vans in U.S." (2019)
https://electrek.co/2019/02/04...

Their current fleet:

Thanks to an array of StreetScooter vehicles, developed and manufactured inhouse, and some 12,000 e-bikes and e-trikes, Deutsche Post DHL Group today operates the largest electric fleet in Germany. For the good of the environment and its customers, the company plans to replace its entire mail and parcel delivery fleet in the mid-term with electric vehicles that are charged with electricity generated from renewable energy sources.

"Deutsche Post DHL Group - Electro Mobility"
https://www.dpdhl.com/en/media...

Is the performance limitation you mention about the number of wireless connections, or the processing power?

I tried several such devices with the intention of prototyping my own software, but either their CPUs were underpowered or they were unreliable. I got Debian on a GK802 for instance, installed in the internal SD-card so leaving the external slot free, with a USB WiFi dongle in addition to the internal WiFi so that it could work as a gateway to certain web content while serving its own applications. The problem I had was that it did not boot reliably, maybe because the file system got corrupted occasionally when powering off: it does not have a power button.
Another limitation is the number of simultaneous connections, which was not important for me in the prototype phase.

At the time there was a device developed for that usage, serving a whole classroom, called the SMILEplug:
http://www.cnx-software.com/20...
https://www.globalscaletechnol...

It used a separate WiFi chip from Marvell that supported up to 60 simultaneous connections, with applications running on NodeJS on what seems to be a standard Debian system.
I haven't heard about them in a while and suspect they just abandoned the project: http://www.smileconsortium.org...

Is there some way I could follow your project?
I'm very interested in the subject, specially in the difficulties and needs found in actual use.
You can find my e-mail address at my website: http://sentido-labs.com/en/abo...

The CGI reconstruction of the collapse is at around 7:22 in that video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Calm down, it's just missing a comma:

"Hit there, targets!"

In Soviet Russia, targets hit you!

What about Plunker?
You can point people directly at their online editor, ready to write and run Javascript applications:

http://plnkr.co/edit/

On the left, select "script.js", type something like alert("hello") then click the Run button at the top. Template projects using jQuery, Angular and Bootstrap are available in the green "New" button dropdown; they are not limited to basic Javascript.
If they want to download their creation, use the button at the top right (next to the blue GitHub button): "Download your Plunk as a zip file"

You could use that to show newcomers to the club that they can write and run programs with just a browser and internet access, then organize other activities based on their feedback.

Is it the Algebra module for Moode? http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/question/type/algebra, https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB/component/10326, https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=98670

I worked nine years on such a system, called "ActiveMath" http://activemath.org/ then and now "Math-Bridge" http://math-bridge.org/, where I designed and implemented precisely the exercise system that does the answer evaluation: http://matracas.org/escritos/#exercise_system_report

There you can apply different tests to the student's answer, and one common use was to first check for the exact correct form, like "1/2", with a "syntactical" comparison of the expression tree parsed from the textual input. You would get the "Correct!" feedback for that one.
Then you could compare it "semantically" with the expected answer, which sent the expression to a Computer Algebra System for simplification in a specific context (set of simplification rules, depending on the task), so if you answered "2/4" you would get the feedback "That's correct, but not fully simplified. Please give the irreducible form.".
The exercise author can include any number of such classifier expressions to catch different forms of the correct answer, different half-done answers, and wrong answers, giving adequate feedback for each.
Feedback is not just text, but a complete "exercise subgraph" that could be entire sub-exercises intended to correct the misconception corresponding to the wrong answer given by the student.

There was an article on The Register some months ago on ARM development history (can't seem to find it now), and if it's to be believed they were investigating a series of mysterious crashes in the prototype ARM CPU, and in debugging they found the power on their dev kit wasn't actually connected to the chip - it was running entirely on leakage current and if there weren't enough 1's going into the chip to provide current, it wouldn't have enough power to run.

I think you mean this article, "ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber Part Two: the accidental chip":
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/05/03/unsung_heroes_of_tech_arm_creators_sophie_wilson_and_steve_furber/

I saw the video of that debate recently. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku3GcPrW9xg&t=0m52s

That link goes to the point where they aired a short fragment of the movie after interviewing John Cleese and Michael Palin, and then the debate starts.

What do you think of that initiative in the US to have all textbooks be digital in five years?

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/03/30/apple_others_challenged_to_make_digital_textbooks_a_reality_in_five_years.html

I guess books could be loaded on the devices, not needing internet access for most functions, but still I'd like to know if you have some take on this.

First select the "classic discussion system (D1)" under "Discussions" in your options (gear icon). Then, in the settings just below the summary pick the "flat" view instead of "nested".

Don't the Japanse bullet trains also touch the rails?

My curiosity is peaked.

Then I guess you could say that it has jumped the shark.

I had no idea that Japan used two different power grid frequencies.

I searched for the reason behind it, and while I could not get any good results from Google, following the leads from the Wikipedia image you linked brought me to the page on "utility frequency" where it says how it happened:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency#Standardization

This originates in the first purchases of generators from AEG in 1895, installed for Tokyo, and General Electric in 1896, installed in Osaka.

AEG being a German company had its generators produce at 50 Hz, while the USA General Electric delivered 60 Hz.

What some professors do now at the University of Saarland (Germany) is to define three zones.
If you want to use the laptop for taking notes in class, you sit in the first rows, and if you want to do whatever else you sit in the last rows way back.
In the middle there is a DMZ without laptops at all.

The idea is to avoid getting distracted by flashy graphic stuff happening before you when you want to pay attention.