S. Korea to allow sidewalk testing of self-driving robots
Jul 28, 2021 23:53 pm UTC| Life Economy
South Korea will allow businesses to test self-driving robots equipped with cameras on sidewalks. Self-driving robots, considered automobiles under local rules, were banned from running alongside pedestrians and could...
Can we cancel 'cancel culture'?
Jul 24, 2021 06:51 am UTC| Life
Alexi McCammonds journalism career was rapidly ascending. She was a political reporter for Axios and a fixture on cable news. Jeffrey Toobin was an award-winning lawyer-turned-journalist. He wrote for The New Yorker,...
Pandemic has teens feeling worried, unmotivated and disconnected from school
Jul 24, 2021 05:53 am UTC| Life
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, many U.S. teens were more worried about the disruption to their education than the possibility of getting sick. A May 2020 survey of high school students found that they reported...
Generation COVID: pregnancy, birth and postnatal life in the pandemic
Jul 18, 2021 10:43 am UTC| Life
What was it like to be pregnant, to give birth and to look after a baby in the middle of a pandemic? For this Insights article, photographer and researcher of visual cultures James Clifford Kent teamed up with...
Lego demands US gunmaker stop making pistols that look like its toys
Jul 16, 2021 23:54 pm UTC| Economy Life
Danish toymaker Lego had asked Utah-based gun company Culper Precision to stop producing pistols that look like it is covered with their famous multi-colored building brick. Lego claimed that Culper Precision agreed not...
7-Eleven Japan steps up support for foreign workers in effort to retain them
Jul 11, 2021 00:04 am UTC| Economy Life
Seven-Eleven Japan Co will start programs supporting its foreign workers private and work life in efforts to retain them amid a labor shortage due to Japans graying population. The convenience store operator, which...
S.Korean employees back to remote working as country braces for worst-ever COVID-19 wave
Jul 09, 2021 23:54 pm UTC| Economy Life Business
South Koreas large corporations are ordering employees to work remotely as the country braces for the fourth wave of COVID-19 with the daily caseload rising to an all-time high of 1,316. The South Korean government will...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects