Lawrence Barretto assesses the field after the first day of running at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas.

The drivers and teams report back on all the action from Friday practice at the Circuit of The Americas ahead of the United States Grand Prix.

Isack Hadjar has explained why set-up changes left his Red Bull struggling for grip during second practice for the United States Grand Prix.

Kimi Antonelli is confident that Mercedes have begun to get the most out of their recent upgrade package at the Circuit of The Americas.

Lando Norris' was left to rue the MCL40's handling on the first day of running in Austin despite signs of pace.

After impressing in Free Practice, Charles Leclerc has shared why Ferrari will find it tough to maintain top spot for the rest of the United States Grand Prix weekend.

Adrian Newey has offered an encouraging assessment of Aston Martin’s progress behind the scenes, while admitting Honda are “a little bit behind” where he hoped they would be.

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a machine-washable electronic fabric that can turn clothing into an interactive graphical user interface. The prototype reportedly survived 50 gentle machine washes and 1,000 bending cycles, though it still relies on external batteries and controllers. The Register reports: The development could lead - at some point - to a "future in which clothing functions as a pervasive, multimodal human-computer interface," according to the study published in peer-reviewed science journal Nature this week. The paper shows someone interacting with computing devices using the sleeve of a wool sweater (no jokes about the Windows ugly sweater please, this is serious). The researchers, led by Singapore National University research engineer Fu Heng, claim this is a big leap forward.

"This fiber-centric approach shifts wearable electronics from flexible panels toward truly textile-native architectures, laying the groundwork for fabrics that visualize, sense, communicate and compute as naturally as the garments they inhabit," the paper says. The researchers claim to have developed a scalable process to make millimeter-thick fibers. Using lasers to strip the insulation from specific spots on the thin copper wires, they attached light-emitting chips to the exposed sections, creating electrical connections to the chips. Thousands of chips were connected to the wires with extreme precision using this process.

The fibers were then fed into a transparent plastic tube, and made pressure-sensitive by adding two strips of a compressible, conductive polymer into a second longitudinal channel in the tube. The paper says they could make fibers 10 meters long using this method, and that they are thin and flexible enough to be woven into or attached to fabrics. The researchers were also able to add "peripherals" such as a microphone, a speaker, a temperature sensor and a light sensor.

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