Quatre grandes banques, dont Santander et Deutsche Bank, travaillent ensemble à la création d'une nouvelle monnaie électronique qui devrait rendre les transactions entre établissements financiers plus efficaces, plus rapides et plus sûres.
Some intrepid biologists at the University of Southern California (USC) have discovered bacteria that survives on nothing but electricity -- rather than food, they eat and excrete pure electrons. These bacteria yet again prove the almost miraculous tenacity of life -- but, from a technology standpoint, they might also prove to be useful in enabling the creation of self-powered nanoscale devices that clean up pollution. Some of these bacteria also have the curious ability to form into
