July 30: Baidu, China’s internet search giant, has shown just what you can learn when you have access to enough location data. The firm’s Big Data Lab in Beijing has announced that it has used billions of location records from its 600 million users as a lens on the Chinese economy, tracking the flux of […]
July 30: Plastic bag use has plummeted in England since the introduction of a 5p charge last year, the government says. In the six months after the levy was brought in last October, 640 million plastic bags were used in seven major supermarkets in England, it says. In 2014, the waste reduction charity Wrap estimated […]
July 29: Using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, astronomers show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water. This new evidence will allow researchers to further narrow theories about how Martian gullies form, and reveal more details about Mars’ recent geologic processes. Scientists use the term “gully” for […]
July 23 : The United States can join a landmark case on the legality of cross-border data transfers, an Irish court ruled on Tuesday in a move that gives U.S.authorities a platform to defend their surveillance laws before the European Union’s top court. The U.S. authorities had asked the Irish High Court to be a […]
July 23: Japan’s Funai Electric, which claims to be the world’s last VCR manufacturer, says it will cease production of the machines this month. Funai started manufacturing video-cassette recorders in 1983, and at one point was selling 15 million units a year. Alas, the clunky VCR has since been replaced by an array of new […]
July 23 : A new NASA-led study finds that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred in the past 150 years has been missed by historical records due to quirks in how global temperatures were recorded. The study explains why projections of future climate based solely on historical records estimate lower rates of […]
July 22: It is officially the summer of Pokemon Go, and now that the viral phenomenon has come to Canada it is pretty much guaranteed that either you’re playing, or that someone else is playing — on your front lawn. The game uses a phone’s GPS to determine where in the real world to spawn […]
July 16: Rio is in the midst of an economic crisis. There’s uncertainty about whether it will be ready to host the Olympics this summer. But it’s working to get Pokemon Go. The mayor of Rio de Janeiro wants people to be able to hunt for charmanders and rattatas while they’re visiting the city during […]
July 15: An airplane powered by energy from the sun arrived Wednesday in Egypt, the penultimate stop on the first fuel-free flight around the globe. Solar Impulse 2, a spindly single-seat plane, flew over the pyramids to make a smooth landing at Cairo airport at about 7:10 a.m. (0510 GMT), ending a flight leg that […]
July 15: Canada is often thought of as a winter country, but our summers are sometimes brutally hot. The blast of air conditioning is sometimes the only thing that can bring relief, aside from jumping in a body of cold water. But many Canadians are concerned about the effects of climate change brought on by the […]
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