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Florida space coast cities abuzz before Nasa’s Artemis launch: ‘At the doorstep of the future’

Yesterday at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Cape Canaveral and Titusville, long ghost towns after 1969 moon landing, have witnessed space industry ‘renaissance’

Almost six decades have passed since the space coast of Florida experienced an atmosphere quite like this. On its beaches and in cities, there is an air of anticipation, excitement and anxiety to match the final days of Nasa’s storied Apollo moon program.

At 6.24pm ET on...

SA-Built AI Medical Scribe Acquired After Rapid Clinical Adoption

Yesterday at 13:56 PM, via Tech Financials

Healthbridge, South Africa’s leading health technology company, has acquired Nora, an ambient AI medical scribe that converts doctor–patient conversations into structured clinical notes, reducing administrative burden and saving doctors up to three hours a day, allowing more time for patient care. The deal marks a significant AI acquisition in South African healthtech. Developed by Nora […]

New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges

Yesterday at 13:34 PM, via Slashdot

Their goal is to use biometric data and blockchain to build age-verification measures directly into disposable vape cartridges. Wired reports on a partnership between vape/cartridge manufacturer Ispire Technology and regulatory consulting company Chemular (which specializes in the nicotine market) — which they’ve named “Ike Tech”:[Using blockchain-based security, the e-cig cartridge] would...

Who alerts the world when an asteroid could hit Earth? This woman

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

Aarti Holla-Maini, of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, is primed and ready should a planetary strike occur – and just over 12 months ago, she thought it might

The UN official had trained for this moment. She had run drills and table-top exercises at her offices in Vienna, housed inside a grey and unassuming 1970s concrete tower complex next to the Danube River.

Aarti Holla-Maini, a...

Positive thinking helps you age better? That’s the worst thing I’ve heard all month | Emma Beddington

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

If you’re the glass-half-full type, you should be overjoyed at the news coming out of Yale School of Public Health. But pessimists like me? We’re stuffed

There’s bad news for me and my fellow Eeyores (there always is): a positive mindset could help you age better. Research led by Prof Becca Levy of the Yale School of Public Health interrogated over-65s on their attitudes to ageing, following...

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