The owner of an Audi Q4 E-Tron decided not to purchase the automaker’s tri-zone climate control feature, yet still received a “Sync” button in their brand new battery-powered SUV. “Instead of just doing nothing [when it was pressed], or, you know, syncing the climate zones, it instead caused a message Read more…
Anyone who has worked in the financial services sector will at least be aware of Bloomberg Terminal, a research, data and analytics platform used to garner real-time insights on the financial markets. Bloomberg Terminal has emerged as something of an industry standard, used by more than 300,000 people at just Read more…
Addition and subtraction must be hard for fish, especially because they don’t have fingers to count on. But they can do it — albeit with small numbers — a new study reveals. By training the animals to use blue and yellow colors as codes for the commands “add one” and Read more…
Genetic testing to predict how individuals will respond to common medicines should be implemented without delay to reduce the risk of side-effects and ensure that everyone is given the right drug at the right dose, experts have said. About 6.5% of UK hospital admissions are caused by adverse drug reactions, Read more…
On a winter night in early 2016, Jeremy Kitson gathered in his buddy’s large shed with some neighbors to plan their fight against a proposed wind farm in rural Van Wert County, Ohio. The project would be about a mile from his home. From the beginning, Kitson — who teaches Read more…
In the past five years, reports of staggering insect declines have stoked anxiety and debate concerning the fate of the “little things that run the world,” as the late biologist E. O. Wilson once called them. As for the how and why of these declines, the prime culprits are habitat Read more…
Texas has started requiring new large-scale cryptocurrency miners to seek permission to connect to the state’s power grid in anticipation of a flood of requests expected to drive up electricity demand. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas is requiring utilities to submit studies on the impact of miners and other Read more…