A report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has revealed that investments in plant-based meat alternatives lead to far greater cuts in climate-heating emissions than other green investments. The improved investment in the production of meat and dairy alternatives resulted in three times more greenhouse gas reductions compared with investment Read more…
Researchers from two Germany universities ‘have demonstrated quantum entanglement of two atoms separated by 33 km (20.5 miles) of fiber optics,” reports New Atlas. Besides being a new distance record, “The team says this is an important step on the way to realizing a practical quantum internet.” In their experiments, Read more…
(paywalled) article from Bloomberg: There has been a sense in financial circles that the fever among American executives to shorten supply lines and bring production back home would prove short-lived. As soon as the pandemic started to fade, so too would the fad, the thinking went. And yet, two years Read more…
“Aside from drawing photo-realistic images and holding seemingly sentient conversations, AI has failed on many promises,” writes the cofounder and CEO of Serve Robotics: The resulting rise in AI skepticism leaves us with a choice: We can become too cynical and watch from the sidelines as winners emerge, or find Read more…
Elon Musk just tweeted a picture of himself laughing — along with a caption he’d apparently added himself. “They said I couldn’t buy Twitter. Then they wouldn’t disclose bot info. Now they want to force me to buy Twitter in court. Now they have to disclose bot info in court.” Read more…
Arizona passed a law making it harder to record police by limiting how close bystanders can be while recording specified law enforcement activity. […] The new Arizona law requires any bystanders recording police activity in the state to stand at a minimum of 8 feet away from the action. If Read more…
