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The International Energy Agency published a report “Nuclear Power and Secure Energy Transitions: From Today’s Challenges to Tomorrow’s Clean Energy Systems”, arguing that in order to achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century, the world’s nuclear power capacity needs to double , from 413 GW today. To 812 GW, annual nuclear power capacity in the 2030s would […]

TikTok CEO Zhou Shouzi responded to a U.S. senator’s inquiry , saying that TikTok has limited ties to parent company ByteDance, although he acknowledged that in order to promote the development of the global platform, non-U.S. employees, including Chinese employees, will be able to access a small number of non-US employees. Sensitive TikTok US user

Jen Fitzpatrick, Google’s senior vice president of core systems and experiences, announced in an official blog post that information about users going to abortion clinics will be automatically deleted from location history. Calls for tech companies to tighten privacy controls have grown after the U.S. Supreme Court decided last week to remove the constitutionally protected

BMW has announced that the telematics system used in some of its future models will switch from Linux to Android Automotive . Android Automotive is also based on the Linux kernel, which has the advantage of integrating Google applications, including the application store, maps and Google Assistant. BMW is expected to customize a skin that

GitHub just announced the commercialization of its AI programming assistant Copilot. Copilot is trained with open source free software code bases. When developers write code, they automatically supplement subsequent codes according to the context such as function names. In many cases, Copilot supplements code copies from open source code bases. This raises licensing issues. The

On August 5, 2020, three adults and two young children were killed in an arson attack on a Senegalese immigrant home in Denver. Police arrested three teenagers in January 2021 for what they believe was deliberately setting the fire: two were as young as 16 and one was 15. Police identify suspects through a tool

Gut microbes help digest food and maintain human health by affecting the immune, metabolic and nervous systems. Some human gut microbes are fairly old and can be found in other primates, which means they descend from a common ancestor. As humans flocked to urban life, more than half of the gut microbes were lost .

Cruise, the driverless car company owned by GM, recently licensed a commercial service for fully driverless taxis, which are limited to operating hours between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. For some unknown reason, at least eight of Cruise’s driverless taxis, Chevrolet Bolts, were spotted blocking the intersection of Gough and Fulton streets in San Francisco

As climate changes, heatwaves and cold fronts worsen and claim lives globally: At least one study puts the death toll of around 5 million people over the past 20 years due to extreme weather. In a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine, an international team of researchers estimated that extreme temperatures killed nearly

A team of MIT researchers is exploring a radical idea to reverse global warming: using massive ” space bubbles ” to reflect sunlight off our planet. Huge amounts of greenhouse gases emitted by humans since the Industrial Revolution are creating a kind of “blanket” around our planet, trapping heat in the atmosphere and causing global

Artificial intelligence that can improve the well-being of farmed chickens by listening to chicken calls could be available within five years, researchers say . New research shows that the new technology can detect and quantify distress calls from chickens in large indoor sheds, distinguishing them from other barn noise with 97 percent accuracy. Similar methods

Scientists at the University of Chicago have developed a new algorithm that can predict future crimes a week in advance with 90 percent accuracy and a range of about 1,000 feet. It makes predictions by learning patterns from public data on violence and property crime. The tool was tested and validated using two types of

The journal Science of Science and Technology of China last year published a paper by scientists from institutions including Beihang University, proposing to launch a nuclear-powered probe into Neptune orbit around 2030. Neptune retains a large amount of gas in the early days of the formation of the solar system, including the state conditions of