Amazon executives believe the company can avoid hiring more than 160,000 workers in the United States by 2027 through robotic automation. Internal documents show the automation would save approximately 30 cents on each item the company picks, packs and delivers. The documents reveal that executives told Amazon’s board last year Read more…
Kohler has launched the Dekoda, a $599 smart toilet camera that analyzes users’ waste to track hydration, gut health, and detect potential issues like blood. “It also comes with a rechargeable battery, a USB connection, and a fingerprint sensor to identify who’s using the toilet,” reports TechCrunch. From the report: Read more…
Lloyds Banking Group claims employees save 46 minutes daily using Microsoft 365 Copilot, based on a survey of 1,000 users among nearly 30,000 deployed licenses. According to Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), the rollout is “helping teams summarize documents, prepare for meetings, and reduce administrative tasks.” Almost 5,000 engineers are also Read more…
An electronic eye implant has restored reading ability to patients blinded by geographic atrophy, a form of dry age-related macular degeneration. Results published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that 84% of trial participants regained the ability to read letters, numbers, and words after receiving the Prima Read more…
Food allergies in children dropped sharply in the years after new guidelines encouraged parents to introduce infants to peanuts, a study has found. The New York Times: For decades, as food allergy rates climbed, experts recommended that parents avoid exposing their infants to common allergens. But a landmark trial in Read more…
Test scores across OECD countries peaked around 2012 and have declined since. IQ scores in many developed countries appear to be falling after rising throughout the twentieth century. Nataliya Kosmyna at MIT’s Media Lab began noticing changes around two years ago when strangers started emailing her to ask if using Read more…
It turns out playing God is neither difficult nor expensive, for about $2,000, I can go online and order a decent microscope, a precision injection rig, and a vial of enough CRISPR-Cas9 — an enzyme-based genome-editing tool — to genetically edit a few thousand fish embryos…” So when going beyond Read more…