Fossil fuels continue to dominate the global energy market. According to the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy report, global energy demand rose 1% last year, but fossil fuels still accounted for 82% of supply. The stubborn lead of oil, gas and coal products in covering most energy demand cemented Read more…
In its first week, a fertilized human egg develops into a hollow ball of 200 cells and then implants itself on the wall of the uterus. Over the next three weeks, it divides into the distinct tissues of a human body. And those crucial few weeks remain, for the most Read more…
Earlier this month, shares of big health insurance companies fell after UnitedHealth Group warned that healthcare utilization rates were up. At a conference the company had said that it was seeing a higher-than-expected pace of hip replacements, knee surgeries and other elective procedures. In a new note out Monday, UBS Read more…
Apple has criticised powers in the UK’s Online Safety Bill that could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage, WhatsApp and Signal to scan messages for child abuse material. Its intervention comes as 80 organisations and tech experts have written to Technology Minister Chloe Smith urging a rethink Read more…
In 2016, an artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo from Google’s DeepMind AI lab made history by defeating a champion player of the board game Go. Now Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s cofounder and CEO, says his engineers are using techniques from AlphaGo to make an AI system dubbed Gemini that will be Read more…
96,000 American students took this year’s [Java-based] AP Computer Science A test. And more than a third — a full 34% — missed question #4. It asks test-takers to write two methods for the class BoxOfCandy — one that moves a Candy object to the first row (of a column), Read more…
The Paris Air Show, where developers of electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (or eVTOLs) demonstrated their surprisingly quiet electrically-powered craft. And in one year the Paris region “is planning for a small fleet of electric flying taxis to operate on multiple routes when it hosts the 2024 Olympic and Read more…