Amazon announced on Thursday it had signed a deal to acquire PillPack, an online pharmacy that organizes prescription medication by the dose and delivers it to customers.
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Just what every environmentally-friendly, eco-sustainable army needs: a fully-armored, diesel-electric two-seat hybrid all-terrain vehicle. And did I mention that it’s capable of running in super-silent stealth mode as well? According […]
There’s a fine line between ambition and ruthlessness.
Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.
Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.
SpinLaunch’s launcher, which is larger than the Statue of Liberty and works like the Olympic hammer-throw event, just came online in the New Mexico desert.
Can we ever make energy efficient AI?
Researchers evaluated the best and worst ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in a recent report.
A fully programmable quantum computer that can outperform any classical computer is right at the edge of today’s technology. Earlier this month, a new story leaked out: Google, one of […]
The war machine needs fuel, perhaps so much as to make protecting oil redundant.
The Green New Deal is an ambitious attempt to fight climate change, but is it destined to hit the political skids?
Walgreens now competes with Amazon and CVS in the race to dominate the prescription delivery market.
Pay attention to the decisions made by the provinces.
America’s greatest international impact since World War 2 has been through its diplomacy, not its wars.
Our dark matter searches have yet to yield a robust detection. Could we be looking in all the wrong places? There’s perhaps no more fundamental question to ask than, “what is […]
New tariffs enacted on solar panels and washing machines are coming under fire from some around the globe, while others are calling the move a positive step for jobs in the United States.
A children’s hospital is “the first of many solar + storage projects going live” on the island, Elon Musk announced.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Humanities scholar Stephen Greenblatt on one particular story that just won’t let us go.
Harsh criticism of Chipotle’s marketing ploy to eliminate some genetically modified ingredients is part of a growing movement to stand up to advocates on many issues who promote fear that flies in the face of the evidence.
In the United States, the FDA has the power to fine drug companies $10,000 a day for failing to publish clinical trials, yet most clinical trials still never see the light of day.
A significant study showed more spinach and kale in your diet may help slow cognitive decline.
Anyone who has seen James Cameron’s 1984 film The Terminator remembers “seeing” through the eyes of the killer android sent into the past as it scans its surroundings for clothes, weapons, and, eventually, its target. German filmmaker Harun Farocki would later call those pictures “operational images”—the machine-made and machine-used pictures of the world that threatened to supplant not just how people see, but people period.
Ben Haggerty is having a tough week. The artist known as Macklemore is coming off one hell of a year, however. His breakaway hit ‘Thrift Shop’ has amassed more than […]
Chip Wilson is the yoga world’s Rob Ford. While the Lululemon founder has not been caught smoking crack, it seems that whatever comes out of his mouth sends him further […]
Any theory worth its salt, or any law worthy of the name, should welcome challenge.
Draw two dots above a straight line, place them in a circle, and even children a few years old will spot the semblance with a human countenance. Whether it’s the features […]
In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to share an article written by my former colleague Ross Robertson for EnlightenNext magazine called “A Brighter Shade of Green: Rebooting Environmentalism for the 21stCentury.” […]
What’s the Big Idea? A few milestones in the short but storied history of machine translation: in 1939, Bell Labs presented the first speech synethesizing device, the Voder, at the World’s Fair in New York. […]
A camera, worn on a finger and providing data to a smartphone, combines augmented reality with wearable technology.
Slate recently highlighted the fastest-growing industries in the USA – everything from hot sauce to self-tanning products to 3D printers to generic pharmaceuticals. Here’s one industry they missed: the recycled […]