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- Railsbank raises $70M to build out its fintech-as-a-service platform
- Walmart will be bringing Symbotic robots to 25 distribution centers
- “…today around 30% of the world’s population is exposed to a deadly combination of heat and humidity for at least 20 days each year, that percentage will increase to nearly half by 2100, even with the most drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions…”
- History teaches us how to be brutally honest about a problem and yet optimistic for a technological solution
- One of Dubai’s Oldest Lenders Prepares for a Digital-Only Future
- A Neanderthal carved a geometric design in bone 51,000 years ago
- If we want to look for life on Europa, we’d better bring a drill
- what we know about kids and long covid
- Humanoid Robot Keeps Getting Fired From His Jobs…Pepper, SoftBank’s robot, malfunctioned during scripture readings, took breaks in exercise class and couldn’t recognize the faces of family members (WSJ)
- Our brains “read” expressions of illusory faces in things just like real faces…”For the brain, fake or real, faces are all processed the same way.”
- Japan appoints Minister of Loneliness
- Virgin Galactic plans to take a tourist to space every day, says chief (FT)
- Germany establishes new military space command
- Scientists develop bendable ice
- NASA Announces Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Concept Awards
- Cyberattacks and Ransomware: How Can We Protect Energy Infrastructure? (WSJ)
- How computers with humanlike senses will change our lives?
- Amazon launches its mobile-first Kindle Vella serialized story platform
- VW Group’s 10-year plan: A single EV platform across all its brands
- With Apple Pay Later, Apple may take another stab at the PayPal model
- How used cars became the next big ecommerce battleground (FT)
