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Monthly Archives: October 2022
Elizabeth Warren and six other Democratic senators are pressing Texas’ energy regulator on whether the crypto mining industry is putting additional strain on the state’s grid, and its impact on climate change. In a letter to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the senators note that “cryptomining companies are flooding into states like Texas,”…
Apple today seeded the fifth beta of iOS 16.1 to developers for testing purposes, with the beta coming one week after the release of the fourth iOS 16.1 beta. The iOS 16.1 beta is also joined by the sixth beta of iPadOS 16.1, which is on a slightly different schedule as Apple started testing it…
Progress is being made on a truly impossible-seeming area of plant-based meat products: steak. And not just any steak, a filet mignon. At MIT Technology Review’s ClimateTech event this afternoon, Impossible Foods CEO and founder Pat Brown shared that while he couldn’t give an exact date for when the company’s steak product will be ready…
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. And … isn’t it just mind-boggling that chances are, if you are reading this, that you know exactly what happens next with Humpty? Just like a reader over 200 years ago? Before I started writing for kids, I taught elementary school in New York City….
The barreleye fish is the living version of the galaxy-brain meme. MBARI Today, there are more ways to take photos of the underwater world than anyone could have imagined at the start of the millennia, thanks to ever-improving designs for aquatic cameras. On one hand, they have provided illuminating views of life in the seas….
Neobanks have made a name for themselves by successfully winning the business of newly-minted adults, opening their first checking, savings and investment accounts and uninterested in doing business with clunky, expensive legacy banks. Now a new wave of startups and services has been getting a jump on that model with an even earlier target:…
Brain cells now know the irresistible lure of the classic arcade game “Pong.” A peer-reviewed study in Neuron from Australian biotech company Cortical Labs show how neurons are not only capable of playing a version of the table tennis game, but that they can adapt and get better the longer they play. The study’s authors…
Alex Jones testifying during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial on Sept. 22, 2022. Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media/Pool via Reuters As the jury’s numbers were announced— $120 million for the father of six-year-old Emilie Parker, $109 million for the parents of six-year-old Ben Wheeler — Alex Jones was already live on Infowars. This was an…
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to drive consumers online, the pressure for incumbent insurance companies to adopt digital technology is intensifying. Incumbent insurers have been pushed to accelerate their use of mature AI deployments over the past year to meet changing customer expectations and better compete with tech-centric firms. For context, consumers are now twice as…