Enlarge / Kids line up to get their polio vaccines at the Woodbury Avenue School in Huntington, New York, on April 27, 1954. (credit: Getty | Newsday LLC) Health officials in New York have detected a case of polio, marking the first case of the dangerous viral disease in the United States in years. The…
See, it’s right there, the most distant galaxy ever seen in an image. GLASS-z13: Naidu et al. 2022, Castellano et al. 2022; Raw data: T. Treu (UCLA) and GLASS-JWST. NASA/CSA/ESA/STScI; Color Images: P. Oesch & G. Brammer (University of Geneva & Cosmic Dawn Center, NBI, University of Copenhagen) When Harvard’s Rohan Naidu saw the galaxy,…
Snap released its second-quarter earnings on Thursday and missed analyst’s expectations. Revenue was $1.11 billion for the quarter, up 13% from the same period a year earlier but coming in below its previous guidance of 20% to 25%. Snap also declined to predict its future financial performance due to “uncertainties related to the operating environment.”…
Robots have always found it a challenge to work with people, and vice versa. Two people on the cutting edge of improving that relationship joined us for TC Sessions: Robotics to talk about the present and future of human-robot interaction: Veo Robotics co-founder Clara Vu and Robust.ai founder Rod Brooks (formerly of iRobot and Rethink…
Engineers and robotics fans can nerd out about robots in the lab and the workshop all day long. It’s a very long road from a ridiculously cool, glorified science experiment to robots that can be put to work in production settings. These robots often have to work in some of the harshest conditions imaginable: defusing…
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The U.S. government is really starting to get serious about crypto. So far this year, we’ve had milestone arrests in one of the largest cryptocurrency hacking cases, and arrests in an NFT rug pull scam. Now, we have arrests in what the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York are calling the…
As Twitch has become more and more popular over the years, that has inevitably meant a rise in trolls and bad actors, too. In order to deal with the issue, Twitch is getting creative with its latest tool: Shared Ban Info. Announced on Thursday, the feature sounds exactly like it’s titled. Twitch streamers will now be…
President Joe Biden stopped short of officially declaring a climate emergency on Wednesday. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images President Joe Biden expanded federal programs for climate resiliency and developing offshore wind. The actions fell short of a climate emergency declaration that Senate Democrats are demanding. Policy uncertainty could slow growth in renewable energy,…
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., dons a message reading My State is Banning Exceptions Protect Contraception, before the House passed the Right To Contraception Act in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, July 21, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) The House on Thursday voted 228-195 to pass a bill that would protect access to…