The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips

MIT Technology Review 

Plus: Space data centers don't exist yet, but people already oppose them. Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a "landmark achievement" When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been removed from a donor's body, it starts to deteriorate. Surgeons have only a matter of hours to get it into a recipient. In most cases, organs will be kept on ice during that time, at around 4 C (39 F). They cannot be frozen--in previous attempts, ice has formed, causing all kinds of damage.