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Moravec‘s Paradox

India working on robots that may patrol borders

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Electric Car

Tesla’s median employee pay vs. the median American in 2018 is surprising – Teslarati

A recent proxy statement from Tesla has revealed that in 2018, a median employee of the electric car maker made $56,163, including salary or wages, performance bonuses, and stock awards. This figure is true for full-time, part-time, and temporary employees, e…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Electric Scooter

A 30-mph e-bike to compete with cars in cities? Investors just bet $20 million on it

Bird and Lime are scooting along, backed by hundreds of millions in venture capital. But there are still plenty of companies hoping to dominate the still-nascent micro mobility market, given what huge financial opportunity it promises. Among them: Bond Mobili…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Exoskeleton

Shrimplike Creature Has The Ability To Create Its Own Aluminum Armor

Image credit – DAIJU AZUMA/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Due to the sheer depth of the deepest part of the ocean, there is still a lot about ocean life that we don’t know yet, but what we do know has proven to be extremely fascinating. Such is the case with the discover…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Washington State Passed a Bunch of Good Health Care Bills This Year. Here’s a Look.

This year the Legislature passed bills that will lower the cost of health care for people on Obamacare, increase transparency in drug pricing, ensure equal reproductive health care access to LGBTQ people, create a new long-term care system, and possibly put t…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Black Hole

The Trump administration is cosigning states’ efforts to overturn Obamacare, and it could leave millions without health care

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Taking a harder line on health care, the Trump administration joined a coalition of Republican-led states Wednesday in asking a federal appeals court to entirely overturn former President Barack Obama's signature health care law — a decisio…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Maine becomes first state to ban Styrofoam food containers, effective 2020

Maine has become the first state to ban food containers made of polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill Tuesday that will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, prohibiting businesses from selling or distributing disposab…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Economic Bubble

A Look Back At The Heisei Era’s Console And Game Releases (Part 1)

By Alistair Wong . May 1, 2019 . 5:00pm The Heisei era encapsulated a tumultuous time in Japan, both in real life and in the world of entertainment. In real life, Japan experienced a golden economic bubble that burst and led to a downturn that lasted nearly …

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Belt and Road

Daily Briefing: The bumpy ride to carbon zero

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. A Denisovan jawbone was discovered on Tibetan Plateau at an altitude of more than 3,000 metres.Credit: Dongju Zhang, Lanzhou University A jawbone found on …

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Belt and Road

Daily Briefing: The bumpy ride to carbon zero

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. A Denisovan jawbone was discovered on Tibetan Plateau at an altitude of more than 3,000 metres.Credit: Dongju Zhang, Lanzhou University A jawbone found on …

bubmagMay 2, 2019

India working on robots that may patrol borders

Tesla’s median employee pay vs. the median American in 2018 is surprising – Teslarati

A 30-mph e-bike to compete with cars in cities? Investors just bet $20 million on it

Shrimplike Creature Has The Ability To Create Its Own Aluminum Armor

Washington State Passed a Bunch of Good Health Care Bills This Year. Here’s a Look.

The Trump administration is cosigning states’ efforts to overturn Obamacare, and it could leave millions without health care

Maine becomes first state to ban Styrofoam food containers, effective 2020

A Look Back At The Heisei Era’s Console And Game Releases (Part 1)

Daily Briefing: The bumpy ride to carbon zero

Daily Briefing: The bumpy ride to carbon zero

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