Diners in Japan could soon be able to savour the umami of a bowl of ramen or miso soup without having to worry about their salt intake. In what they claim is a world first, researchers have developed chopsticks that artificially create the taste of salt, as part of efforts Read more…
On Monday, the Internet got a much better look at military facilities across Russia. Google Maps stopped obscuring the sensitive locations due to Russia’s ongoing invasion of its neighbor Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces announced the end of Google’s censorship of Russia’s bases on Twitter. Thanks to former US President Read more…
Ukrainian officials “have run more than 8,600 facial recognition searches on dead or captured Russian soldiers in the 50 days since Moscow’s invasion began, using the scans to identify bodies and contact hundreds of their families,” reports the Washington Post. Ukraine’s IT Army (taking direction from Ukraine’s government) “says it Read more…
The Covid-19 pandemic “would look very different if scientists had been able to develop a treatment sooner,” writes Bill Gates, in a guest essay Friday in the New York Times. This ultimately would’ve reduced fatalities — “and it may have been harder for myths and misinformation to spread the way Read more…
