Monthly Archives: November 2022

KEZ personal black box is a wearable with a biorhythm sensor and GPS-tracking feature

Stay apprised of your health—and the health of family members— with the KEZ personal black box. This smart wearable analyzes your situation, records surroundings in emergencies, and provides your GPS location in a time of need. In fact, with its built-in biosensor, it can measure your heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature using biorhythm…

FTX files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as CEO Sam Bankman-Fried resigns

Illustration: The Verge Crypto’s no-good, very bad 2022 got even worse as FTX (along with its international platform, the independent FTX.us exchange, and Alameda Research), previously the world’s third-largest crypto exchange by volume, couldn’t come up with the money to satisfy customers’ withdrawal requests and then suffered an aborted acquisition attempt by a competitor. Now,…

With Decision Looming on Extension of TRIPS IP Waiver, House Dems Want More Info, Industry and Advocacy Groups Battle for Public Narrative

On November 10, a group of Democratic members of congress sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai expressing concerns about extending a waiver of intellectual property rights under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement to therapeutics and diagnostics for the treatment of COVID-19. The letter comes as talks are…

Can software really define a vehicle? Renault and Google are betting on it.

Inside Renault’s Douai facility in France. Renault Renault was founded in 1898, a long time before computers and the internet. Perhaps that’s what makes it feel a little surprising to find that its current goals are of the high-tech, modern kind. For instance, the Renault Group is working toward being carbon neutral in Europe by…