Business
Chinese Apple superfans jostled to enter the smartphone maker's newest store in Shanghai as it opened on Thursday night—but they were upstaged by dozens of retirees eager to nab commemorative freebies.
Mar 21, 2024
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Engineering
Imagine you're driving to work on a rainy day, when a distracted, reckless driver hits your car out of nowhere. With a "boom," an air bag deploys faster than you can blink your eyes to save your life.
Feb 21, 2024
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Automotive
In the past 15 months, no one has been more responsible for safety on the nation's roads than Ann Carlson. For much of that time she has served as acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, ...
Jan 30, 2024
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Automotive
BMW is recalling a small number of SUVs in the U.S. because the driver's air bag inflators can blow apart in a crash, hurling metal shrapnel and possibly injuring or killing people in the vehicles.
Dec 3, 2023
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Business
The rate of lost, damaged or delayed luggage nearly doubled last year as air travel rebounded and the sector faced staff shortages following the COVID pandemic, a study found on Tuesday.
May 16, 2023
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Business
Alaska Airlines is pushing passengers to load boarding passes on their smartphones by removing airport kiosks that can be used to print the passes.
Apr 20, 2023
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Engineering
As the world searches for ways to reduce the use of plastics such as single-use plastic bags, a novel study by Penn State researchers demonstrates a process to make paper bags stronger—especially when they get wet—to ...
Apr 19, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Disposable plastics are everywhere: Food containers, coffee cups, plastic bags. Some of these plastics, called compostable plastics, can be engineered to biodegrade under controlled conditions. However, they often look identical ...
Mar 14, 2023
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Robotics
Robots are all around us, from drones filming videos in the sky to serving food in restaurants and diffusing bombs in emergencies. Slowly but surely, robots are improving the quality of human life by augmenting our abilities, ...
Mar 8, 2023
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Business
Word of more layoffs at Twitter came Monday as its owner Elon Musk waded into a racism controversy giving advertisers more reason to steer clear of the struggling platform.
Feb 27, 2023
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