The U.S. city of Carmel, Indiana (population: 102,000) has 140 roundabouts, “with over a dozen still to come,” reports the New York Times. “No American city has more. The main reason is safety; compared with regular intersections, roundabouts significantly reduce injuries and deaths. “But there’s also a climate benefit.” Because Read more…
The north-German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open source software…” reports Mike Saunders from LibreOffice. “By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office is to be replaced by LibreOffice on all 25,000 computers used by civil servants and employees (including teachers), and the Windows operating system is to be Read more…
Zero emissions and, soon, zero crew: the world’s first fully electric autonomous cargo vessel was unveiled in Norway, a small but promising step toward reducing the maritime industry’s climate footprint. TechXplore reports: By shipping up to 120 containers of fertilizer from a plant in the southeastern town of Porsgrunn to Read more…
The device — nicknamed the DogPhone — is a soft ball that, when moved, sends a signal to a laptop that launches a video call, and the sound of a ringing telephone. The owner can choose whether to take the call, and when to hang up, while they can also Read more…
NASA has now released the most detailed footage yet of Ingenuity in flight. Gizmodo reports: The two videos were taken during the rotorcraft’s 13th flight, which took place on September 4. The 16-second flight saw Ingenuity travel nearly 700 feet horizontally, at an altitude of 26 feet. The Perseverance rover Read more…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Texas, already home to the most vulnerable power grid in the U.S., is about to be hit by a surge in demand for electricity that’s twice the size of Austin’s. An army of cryptocurrency miners heading to the state for its cheap Read more…
CNN reports on researcher Michael Worobey, “who specializes in tracing the genetic evolution of viruses,” who has now found “considerable evidence that the virus arose in an animal, and did not start circulating until the end of 2019.” One case especially stood out — that of a 41-year-old accountant who Read more…