Amazon workers in New York withdraw petition to unionize
The National Labor Relations Board has confirmed that a group of Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York has withdrawn its petition to hold a vote to unionize.
Nov 12, 2021
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Engineering
Speckle-free holography for virtual displays
Virtual and augmented reality headsets are designed to place wearers directly into other environments, worlds and experiences. While the technology is already popular among consumers for its immersive quality, there could ...
Nov 12, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
The ethics of digital technology in the food sector
Imagine a world in which smart packaging for supermarket-ready meals updates you in real-time to tell you about carbon footprints, gives live warnings on product recalls and instant safety alerts because allergens were detected ...
Nov 12, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Newly developed compound may enable sustainable, cost-effective, large-scale energy storage
To produce a cost-effective redox flow battery, researchers based at the South China University of Technology have synthesized a molecular compound that serves as a low-cost electrolyte, enabling a stable flow battery that ...
Nov 12, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers compare energy consumption during extraction and synthesis of one diamond carat
Researchers from HSE University, RAS, and Skoltech have compared actual specific energy consumption in the production of diamonds using traditional (mining) and innovative (synthesis) methods. Depending on the technology, ...
Nov 12, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A strategy to fabricate organic solar cells with efficiencies over 17% using non-harmful solvents
Over the past few years, engineers have created increasingly advanced technologies to produce and store energy more sustainably. Solar cells made of organic molecules or polymers are among the most promising sustainable energy ...
Nov 12, 2021 feature
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Business
Lufthansa pays back German bailout early
German airline Lufthansa said on Friday that it had finished repaying a nine-billion-euro ($10 billon) government bailout that saved it from bankruptcy at the height of pandemic travel curbs.
Nov 12, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Simultaneous coating and drying accelerates production of electrodes
Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed and successfully tested an innovative concept for simultaneous coating and drying of two-layered electrodes. Drying times can be reduced to less than 20 ...
Nov 12, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Real-time video of scenes hidden around corners is now possible
As Ji Hyun Nam slowly tosses a stuffed cat toy into the air, a real-time video captures the playful scene at a 20th century webcam clip—a mere five frames per second.
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Energy & Green Tech
Benin project turns waste fabric into recycled 'gold'
Every morning, Amake Yessoufou makes the rounds of the sewing workshops of Ouidah, a small coastal town in the south of Benin, and collects scraps of fabric used by tailors to make clothes.
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