An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: People in a quiet neighborhood in Carthage, a town in Moore County, North Carolina, heard a series of six loud pops a few minutes before 8:00 p.m. on Dec. 3, 2022. A resident named Michael Campbell said he ducked at the sound. Read more…
Amanda Smith, a 35-year-old nurse from London with Type 1 diabetes, is at the forefront of a medical experiment that seeks to treat the root cause of diabetes by replacing the cells the disease destroys. On Valentine’s Day 2023, doctors transplanted replacement islet cells, grown in a lab from embryonic Read more…
Recent reports have indicated a near-complete collapse in the population of Snow Crabs in the Bering Sea. Scientists with the US Government’s National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration have concluded that warming in the environment has led to vast numbers of snow crabs starving to death. There has been a lot Read more…
Millions of Australians just got official permission to ignore their bosses outside of working hours, thanks to a new law enshrining their “right to disconnect.” The law doesn’t strictly prohibit employers from calling or messaging their workers after hours. But it does protect employees who “refuse to monitor, read or Read more…
Telegram’s billionaire founder/CEO Pavel Durov was arrested Saturday night outside Paris, reports Reuters, citing French TV news stations TF1 TV and BFM TV which attributed the news to unnamed sources: Durov was travelling aboard his private jet, TF1 said on its website, adding he had been targeted by an arrest Read more…
Uber and General Motors’ Cruise have partnered to offer driverless rides to Uber users as early as soon as next year. CNBC reports: Both Cruise CEO Marc Whitten and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi hailed the partnership in a press release, stressing that the companies believe autonomous vehicles can be deployed Read more…
