Category: 3. Tech

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. If just by looking at our watch or cell phone we can know, in real time, our heart rate, the number of steps we take, the calories we burn and the hours of sleep we got the night before, why can’t we also know our blood pressure? Blood pressure…

Disney has completed its takeover of the Hulu streaming service. The Walt Disney Company on Wednesday announced it will buy Comcast’s $8.6 billion stake in Hulu, completing its takeover of the streaming service. The acquisition will “further Disney’s streaming objectives,” the company said in a press release, and comes as it strives to boost subscriber…

WeWork is in “selective default” with creditors, according to S&P. Embattled flexible workspace provider WeWork is in “selective default” after failing to meet conditions set by debt holders, ratings agency S&P said Wednesday. S&P’s statement came a day after WeWork recounted its latest communications with creditors, saying in a securities filing that bond holders… Continue…

Mini-grids are small power stations usually supplying rural communities. Working as a nurse in her rural Nigerian village, Andat Datau faced more than her share of challenges. But delivering babies by torchlight was always hard. Off-grid for years, her Sabon Gida village relied on diesel generators or lamps and, like millions of other Africans, Datau…

An engineer examines solar panels installed on the roof of the Electricity Directorate in Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region. In a small village in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, solar panels adorn most homes, part of a small but growing effort to harness the sun’s energy in Iraq, where electricity is scarce. “Solar…

This aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, on Aug. 24, 2023, shortly after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings TEPCO began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and…

Those old, clunky radiators that have long heated our homes are about to get modernized, as the Chicago-based natural gas utility, Peoples Gas, recently awarded a team of researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) for their revolutionary Battery-Operated Radiator Control, also known as BORC, which is touted as having the ability to…

The DoorDash app is shown on a smartphone on Feb. 27, 2020, in New York. DoorDash reports earnings on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Credit: AP Photo, File DoorDash on Wednesday reported better-than-expected sales in the third quarter as it gained users and they ordered more frequently. The San Francisco delivery company said its total orders…

The Airbnb app icon is displayed on an iPad screen in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2021. Airbnb reports earnings on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File Airbnb said Wednesday it earned $4.37 in the third quarter as it booked a large tax benefit and posted higher-than-expected revenue during the summer travel…

An advanced form of liquefied stabilized soil (LLS), known as high-flowability liquefied stabilized soil (HFLSS) has been developed from construction sludge. It exhibits superior mechanical properties and flowability than conventional (LSS), promoting the concept of sustainable construction. Credit: Shinya Inazumi from SIT, Japan The construction industry is a highly resource-intensive and polluting sector, with significant…