Porsche’s electric sports car just set a record. The Porsche Taycan traveled from Thailand to Singapore (a 1,146-mile trip) in under 30 hours, making it the fastest all-electric vehicle to do so. Porsche Taycan sets new EV record in Southeast Asia Three journalists took on the nonstop driving challenge in Southeast Asia, taking a Porsche […]
2023 will be known, sadly, as the year millions of Americans were removed from Medicaid. As states reset their Medicaid eligibility rules post-pandemic, more rapid “unwinding” out of the gate is being seen than was predicted. Even though the public health emergency, which guaranteed continuous coverage for enrollees, just ended in May, 3,289,000 people on Medicaid […]
Just over a year after announcing a joint venture to establish EV battery manufacturing together in the US, Stellantis and Samsung SDI are doubling down with a second plant with an even higher annual production capacity. In May of 2022, Stellantis and EV battery manufacturer Samsung SDI announced a joint venture to establish a production […]
AI-backed remote monitoring and digital therapeutics company Biofourmis confirmed it laid off 120 employees worldwide, including 48 workers in the U.S. The Boston-based company offers home care tools to help remotely monitor acute and post-acute patients, alerting a care team when a patient’s condition changes from their personal baseline. It also offers digital therapies, including […]
A new study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham could result in a rapid non-invasive diagnostic test to quickly and accurately identify stroke patients who need time-critical treatment before irreversible brain damage occurs. Funded by the Stroke Association, the Golden HOur for STroke (GHoST) study could revolutionise the way emergency treatment for stroke is […]
Japan’s largest automaker, Toyota Motor, is laying off workers in China as the company struggles to keep up in the world’s biggest EV market. Toyota lays off workers amid China’s EV transition Japanese automakers are stumbling in China’s evolving auto landscape. According to a new report from Reuters, Toyota’s joint venture with China’s Guangzhou Automobile […]
In the three-plus decades I’ve been alive, I have never been bitten by a tick. Actually, that may be a lie, and I have no way of knowing for sure. Because even though ticks have harpoonlike mouthparts, even though certain species can latch on for up to two weeks, even though some guzzle enough blood […]
Ever wonder what a DIY electric camper with tank tracks would look like? You probably didn’t expect something quite like this. The YouTube channel Quiet Nerd set out to build just that, and the result is surprisingly easy to follow. He used mainly low-tech construction methods to build something that most people could probably handle […]
As the NHS recently celebrated its 75th birthday we saw widespread celebrations for all this national institution has achieved. However, as we reflect on the NHS’s remarkable work over the past seven and a half decades, and indeed look to its future, it is hard to ignore the enormous pressure under which the service is […]
