World

Federal Report Denounces Gender Treatments for Adolescents

  • May 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments

Federal health officials published a report on Thursday declaring that the use of hormonal and surgical treatments in young people with gender dysphoria lacked scientific evidence and expressing concern about long-term harms, a stark reversal from previous agency recommendations and the advice of top U.S. medical groups. The report instead prioritized the role of psychotherapy, […]

ACT Expo 2025 – one step forward, two steps back for clean trucking [part 1]

  • May 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments

ACT Expo is North America’s premier clean truck and transport trade show – and for 2025 it was bigger than ever, with more exhibitors and more, more capable battery electric vehicles than ever. The downsides? NACFE have scored with their “messy middle” messaging, and the return of “clean diesel” talking points. The re-election of Donald Trump […]

Minnesota defies NEVI freeze with $10M EV charger expansion

  • May 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments

Photo: Kwik Trip Minnesota just locked in a dozen new DC fast charging station sites along Interstates 90 and 94, defying Donald Trump’s suspension of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced the 12 new sites this week, backed by nearly $10 million in combined federal and state funding. […]

World

U.S. Prosecutors Accuse Large Insurers of Paying Kickbacks for Private Medicare Plans

  • May 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments

The Justice Department on Thursday accused three of the nation’s largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks over several years to insurance brokers that steered people into private Medicare plans. Federal prosecutors also accused two of the insurers of colluding with brokers to discriminate against people with disabilities, by […]

Tesla is the only EV brand with negative perception, and it’s getting worse

  • May 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments

Tesla is the only EV brand with a net negative brand perception, according to the Electric Vehicle Intelligence Report – and much of the negative shift has happened in the last 6 months. The Electric Vehicle Intelligence Report (EVIR) surveyed 8,000 US consumers to ask them questions about electric vehicle purchasing decisions, both asking about […]

News

Teton unveils 3D hospital digital twin using Denmark’s supercomputer

  • May 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments

Denmark-based Teton, a company that offers an AI companion to help nurses monitor patients and optimize workflow, announced it created a real-time, live 3D reconstruction of a hospital room using Gefion, Denmark’s national supercomputer. The aim is to help nurses recognize risks early, reduce paperwork and improve patient care. Operated by the Danish Center for […]

Tesla loses manager behind its Cortex supercomputer to OpenAI

  • May 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments

Tesla has lost the technical program manager behind its Cortex supercomputer in Texas to OpenAI. The latest example of a massive talent exodus at Tesla over the last year. Tesla has heavily invested in large data centers to house supercomputing power for training its neural networks to achieve self-driving capabilities. Its most recent facility is […]

Understanding SAML: How It Works and How Healthcare Organizations Can Implement It

  • May 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments

How Healthcare Organizations Can Plan for a Successful SAML Deployment A successful SAML deployment requires careful planning, selecting the right IDPs and SPs so that there is seamless interoperability between systems. According to Trevor Thompson, principal software architect for Okta, healthcare organizations must start by choosing platforms that effectively support SAML. “You’ll find differing levels […]

The US’s largest virtual power plant now runs on 75,000 home batteries

  • May 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments

Photo: Sunrun Sunrun just turned thousands of homes into the US’s largest virtual power plant to help keep the lights on in California this summer. The company’s virtual power plant, CalReady, has more than quadrupled in size, linking together around 75,000 home batteries from over 56,000 Sunrun customers with solar + storage. As summer heat […]