You know how grocery stores have rolls of tear-off plastic bags in their produce sections for holding vegetables and fruit? Last week California’s governor signed a law that will force supermarkets to discontinue them before 2025, reports the Bay Area Newsgroup, replacing them with either recycled paper bags or bags Read more…
At the 1,000-bed not-for-profit Kasturba Hospital in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, doctors are grappling with a rash of antibiotic-resistant “superbug infections.” This happens when bacteria change over time and become resistant to drugs that are supposed to defeat them and cure the infections they cause. Such resistance directly Read more…
A new study suggests that a billboard-like constellation of about 50 satellites, costing $65 million all in, could shine ads to every corner of the Earth for months — and potentially make money while doing so. The study, from Russian researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) Read more…
Several robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, are pledging not to support the weaponization of their products and are calling for others in the industry to do the same, according to a letter shared first with Axios. The open letter highlights the erosion of consumer trust in robots as among the Read more…
President Biden on Thursday announced that he is pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession and encouraged state governors to do the same for state offenses. He also directed federal officials to review how marijuana is classified under the Controlled Substances Act. “There are thousands of people who Read more…
An artificial intelligence tool that scans eyes can accurately predict a person’s risk of heart disease in less than a minute, researchers say. […] Researchers developed a fully automated AI-enabled tool, Quartz, to assess the potential of retinal vasculature imaging — plus known risk factors — to predict vascular health Read more…
An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running? To solve the problem of time synchronization on the arpanet, computer scientist David Mills built what programmers call a protocol — a collection of rules and procedures that creates a lingua franca for disparate devices. The arpanet Read more…