“Google employees are receiving regular notifications from management of Covid-19 infections,” CNBC report Friday — “causing some to question the company’s return-to-office mandates.” The employees, who spoke with CNBC on the condition of anonymity, said since they have been asked to return to offices, infections notifications pop up in their Read more…
“When members of the ENS DAO community go to its eth.link website, all they’ll see now is an empty page with a green domain expiration notice banner at the top,” reports CoinDesk. “That’s because the only person with the authority to renew the domain, Virgil Griffith, is serving a 63-month Read more…
United Launch Alliance has been developing a heavy-lift space vehicle since 2014 (with investment from the U.S. military) called the Vulcan Centaur. CNN reports that the ashes of the late Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols “will head to deep space on a Vulcan rocket.” Nichols’ cremated remains will be aboard Read more…
“Google launched a carbon emissions tool for its flight tracker last fall,” remembers Gizmodo, “allowing consumers to see the individual emissions created by each flight they were browsing…” “But last month the tech giant quietly shifted the algorithm to exclude a crucial component of the overall greenhouse gas impact of Read more…
“At the onset of the outbreak, scientists thought they knew when and how the monkeypox virus was spread, what the disease looked like and who was most vulnerable,” remembers the New York Times. “The 47,000 cases identified worldwide have upended many of those expectations.” Some had headaches or depression, confusion Read more…
South Korea has once again shattered its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate as it faces the prospect of its population of 51 million people more than halving by the end of this century. Korean women were estimated, based on 2021 data, to have an average of just Read more…
Japan will restart more idled nuclear plants and look at developing next-generation reactors, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday, setting the stage for a major policy shift on nuclear energy a decade after the Fukushima disaster. Japan has kept most of its nuclear plants idled in the decade since Read more…