New York is aiming to ban the sale of all gas-powered vehicles in the state by 2035. CBS News reports: A bill amending the state’s environmental conservation law was passed by the state’s Senate and Assembly and signed by Governor Kathy Hochul last wee…
Engineers Grow Pancreatic ‘Organoids’ That Mimic the Real Thing
Researchers from MIT have developed a new way to grow tiny replicas of the pancreas, using either healthy or cancerous pancreatic cells. They believe that their “specialized gel” could also be useful for studying lung, colorectal, and other cancers, in…
Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors, Says Dutch Court
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Uber drivers are employees, not contractors, and so entitled to greater workers’ rights under local labor laws, a Dutch court ruled on Monday, handing a setback to the U.S. company’s European business m…
Kape Technologies Agrees to Buy ExpressVPN for $936 Million
Kape Technologies Plc agreed to buy ExpressVPN in a $936 million deal that will more than double the cybersecurity company’s customer base and expand its tools for private web surfing. Bloomberg reports: Kape will pay $354 million in cash when the deal…
Sony Is Nickel-and-Diming PS5 Owners On Upgrades For Games They Already Own
According to Insider, Sony is charging a $10 upgrade fee to bring cross-generational games from a PS4 to a PS5. From the report: When new game consoles launch nowadays, a variety of games on that new console are also available on the previous generatio…
Facebook: Some High-Profile Users ‘Allowed To Break Platform’s Rules’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Facebook gives high-profile users special treatment, which includes immunity from its rules for some, and allowed Brazilian footballer Neymar to post nude pictures of a woman who had accused him of…
Intuit Confirms $12 Billion Deal To Buy Mailchimp
It was teased earlier this month and now it’s confirmed: Intuit said on Monday it would buy email marketing company Mailchimp for about $12 billion in a cash-and-stock deal. Reuters reports: The deal, expected to close by the second quarter of fiscal 2…
County IT Supervisor Mined Bitcoin At the Office, Prosecutors Say
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: A Long Island man was charged on Wednesday with using his position as an I.T. supervisor for Suffolk County to mine cryptocurrency from government offices, costing the county thousands of dol…
Amazon To Open $21 Million State-of-the-Art Warehouse In Tijuana Slum
This month, Amazon will open a $21 million state-of-the-art warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico, that abuts a housing settlement made of cardboard, tarp, and wood scraps along the Tijuana River, less than three miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. Motherboard r…
Strange, Repeating Radio Signal Near Center of Milky Way Has Scientists Stumped
fahrbot-bot shares a report from Live Science: Astronomers have detected a strange, repeating radio signal near the center of the Milky Way, and it’s unlike any other energy signature ever studied. According to a new paper accepted for publication in T…