Brightline West, a future electric high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, is being awarded $3 billion by the Biden administration. The $3 billion in funding, part of $6 billion previously earmarked for high-speed rail, has come from the Biden administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as part of its Federal-State Partnership Program. (The other […]
What Is Access Control? Access control systems regulate and restrict access to resources, systems and physical areas within an organization or computer system. Only authorized users with the proper permissions may access controlled materials; for instance, access to a medicine dispensary might be limited to pharmacists, and only certain employees should have access to electronic […]
One night in July, a few weeks after my son was born, I lay awake, desperately scrolling through photos of injured feet. The mounting pain from an ingrown toenail in my right foot had become excruciating, and the internet promised to help. I could no longer deny the fact that the exorbitantly expensive Hoka sneakers […]
Volvo began selling what could be its most important vehicle to date last month. In November, Volvo sold the first EX30 model, its cheapest and smallest vehicle yet. Volvo sells first EX30 EVs in November In June, the Swedish automaker revealed the new EV aimed at a market it’s not known for. The EX30 (Check […]
U.S. crude prices continued to fall Wednesday, settling below $70 per barrel for the first time since early July and at their lowest levels since June. That’s good news for the Federal Reserve in its battle against inflation. While the impact on oil and natural gas stocks has not been as cheery, companies across many […]
New York’s South Fork Wind has become the first utility-scale offshore wind farm to generate power in the US. The first operational wind turbine at South Fork Wind sent clean power to Long Island today. The project has completed the installation of two turbines around 35 miles off Montauk, with all 12 SG 11-200 DD […]
Photo: Kittiphan Teerawattanakul/Eye Em/Getty Images Moody’s Investors Service expects an increase in healthcare borrowing defaults in 2024 versus 2023, as more ratings migrate toward the lower-end of the credit spectrum. Many healthcare companies will have no other options but to default in 2024, according to the new report from Moody’s. Reasons include excessive leverage, elevated interest […]
Is the decline in WTI crude a sign of something more ominous? We don’t think so just yet.
Absci, a startup focused on developing generative AI antibody discovery technology, announced a potential $247 million partnership with pharma giant AstraZeneca to focus on expediting the discovery of novel cancer treatments with the help of genAI technology. The project will leverage Absci’s Integrated Drug Creation platform – which combines scalable wet lab technologies with AI, and […]
The Biden administration delayed a decision on Wednesday about whether it would ban menthol cigarettes amid intense lobbying from tobacco companies, convenience stores and industry-backed groups that contend that billions of dollars in sales and jobs will be lost. The proposal has also generated concerns that Black smokers will become the targets of aggressive police […]
