The potential use of real-time facial recognition technology, paired with the tens of millions of surveillance cameras that already exist in the US, amounts to a “1984 George Orwell scenario that I think troubles us all,” Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio warned at a congressional hearing Wednesday. Jordan and other members of the House […]
I’m Karen Roby with your TR and ZDNet mid-week news roundup. Google has revoked Huawei’s Android license leading to concern and confusion for many…this comes after the tech giant responded to an executive order by President Trump. We have the latest on the saga and what you need to know. This week marks the one […]
Allergies are more common in young childrenlisegagne/Getty By Ruby Prosser Scully Young immune systems are sensitive to food allergens if they don’t have the right gut bacteria, a study in mice suggests. Sung-Wook Hong of the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea and his colleagues have been investigating the effects of the microbiome on […]
At a recent talk on the UK’s energy sector, the head of an electric utility company claimed that “the problem of decarbonising our electricity sector is fixed”. Eyebrows were raised at this, but his point quickly became clear. The technologies needed to decarbonise the UK’s electricity system now exist, he explained. Indeed, grid operators in […]
Taking time to twirlNASA/GSFC/SDO By Leah Crane Most sun-like stars rotate relatively quickly early in their history, spinning once every few days before slowing down as they age. But sodium and potassium on the moon show that our sun had a lazy start, which may explain why we are here today. The moon has surprisingly […]
Chewing gum may seem like a modern habit but that’s apparently not quite the case. Scientists have recovered DNA that is nearly 10,000 years old from gum that was chewed by people in Scandinavia during the Mesolithic – or Stone Age – period. This gum was used as glue to make tools – the chewing […]
CPR makes someone more likely to survive cardiac arrestJan-Otto/Getty By New Scientist staff and Press Association Women who have a cardiac arrest outside of hospital are less likely to be resuscitated by a bystander and more likely to die than men. Hanno Tan at the University of Amsterdam and colleagues analysed data from all resuscitation […]
The outcome of the world’s largest election is almost upon us – the counting of votes by 900m eligible voters begins on May 23. With more than 500 directly elected seats being contested in India’s lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, all eyes are on who will win and what this means for the […]
TuSimple The US Postal Service is working with a self-driving truck company to test autonomous mail deliveries along a key route in the Southwest. Over two weeks, autonomous trucks from the startup TuSimple will perform five round trips between the USPS’s distribution centers in Phoenix, Arizona and Dallas, Texas. Founded in 2015, TuSimple is already […]
TuSimple The US Postal Service is working with a self-driving truck company to test autonomous mail deliveries along a key route in the Southwest. Over two weeks, autonomous trucks from the startup TuSimple will perform five round trips between the USPS’s distribution centers in Phoenix, Arizona and Dallas, Texas. Founded in 2015, TuSimple is already […]