Fireworks can make bad air quality even worse. For some cities, the answer is drones
They zoom instead of boom. They flash instead of flare. They assemble into shapes so sophisticated — a swimming whale, a spinning globe, a marching robot — that traditional pyrotechnics can seem a little lackluster in comparison.
Maybe most importantly, the drones being employed by more and more cities for Fourth of July celebrations don't leave behind a blanket of smoke at a time when America's air quality is already at its worst in decades.
As they've blazed at historic leve
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TOP Source: NPR 07-05-2023 Science&Technology
Tit-for-tat: After China restricts metals export, US mulls ban on access to cloud computing
Escalating the tit-for-tat battle with China, the US is planning to restrict Chinese access to US cloud-computing services, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the situation.
The Biden administration's new rules, if adopted, would mean that US cloud providers such as Amazon and Microsoft will have to seek government permission before they can provide cloud-computing services that use advanced artificial intelligence chips to Chinese customers.
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TOP Source: WION 07-05-2023 Science&Technology
How Android users can join their iPhone friends' FaceTime fun
For far too long, Android users have been excluded from Apple's flourishing apps and services, including iMessage and FaceTime. While texts from Android devices to iPhones will continue to remain green for the foreseeable future, Apple has been a little more generous about sharing its video-calling platform.
Android users still can't initiate a FaceTime call, or download the dedicated app, but Apple users can now send an invitation link to their Android friends to hop on a video call,
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TOP Source: ZDNET 07-05-2023 Science&Technology
MIT’s New Technology Can Probe the Neural Circuits That Influence Hunger, Mood, and Diseases
MIT engineers have developed a new optogenetic technology that can manipulate the neurological connections between the brain and gut, potentially offering insights into the links between digestive health and neurological conditions.
The brain and the digestive tract are in constant communication, relaying signals that help to control feeding and other behaviors. This extensive communication network also influences our mental state and has been implicated in many neurological disorders.
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TOP Source: SciTechDaily 07-05-2023 Politics
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin has counter-blow 'ready to go'
Russia has used anti-tank mines to slow down Ukrainian advances before attacking vulnerable armoured vehicles from the sky, the UK MoD says. And Vladimir Putin has his own counter-blow ready, Professor Michael Clarke tells Sky News.
Russians are "united as never before", Vladimir Putin has claimed as he aims to project confidence after the short-lived Wagner revolt.
The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) meeting, hosted via videoconference by India, offered the Russian pr
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TOP Source: SKY News 07-05-2023 Science&Technology
Meta to launch Twitter-like app called Threads
Meta Platforms Inc - the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram - is set to launch a Twitter-like app called Threads.
Threads has been billed as Instagram's text-based conversation app and will allow users to keep the same username and follow the same accounts as they do on the photo-sharing platform.
The app is available to pre-order on the Apple App Store with photos of the new product showing a dashboard that looks similar to Twitter.
It appears the app will be f
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TOP Source: Sky news 07-05-2023 Science&Technology
What are Gallium and Germanium? China curbs exports of metals critical to chips and other tech
China is restricting exports of two niche metals that are key to manufacture electronics and semiconductors, as the tech battle with the U.S. and Europe heats up.
Germanium and gallium are the two metals in the spotlight.
But what and how crucial are they?
China and the U.S. have been locked in a technology trade war that has been escalating since 2019. The U.S. has used trade blacklists and sweeping export restrictions to cut China off from key technology components a
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TOP Source: CNBC 07-05-2023 Science&Technology
AI is already linked to layoffs in a surprising industry
Many have raised alarms about the potential for artificial intelligence to displace jobs in the years ahead, but it’s already causing upheaval in one surprising industry where workers once seemed invincible: tech.
A small but growing number of tech firms have cited AI as a reason for laying off workers and rethinking new hires in recent months, as Silicon Valley races to adapt to rapid advances in the technology being developed in its own backyard.
Chegg, an education technolo
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TOP Source: CNN 
