On January 14, the owner of an Amazon delivery fleet in the Midwest spent more than $1,000 towing four Amazon delivery vans from the snow during a nasty winter blizzard. “When there are winter storms, we have a lot of vans that get stuck, which is not paid for by Amazon,” the owner told Motherboard, noting that he’s had vans get stuck in dirt roads, driveways, and once a cornfield that Amazon’s GPS system marked as a road.

The global semiconductor shortage has grabbed headlines and caused a cascade of production bottlenecks that have driven up prices on all sorts of consumer goods, from refrigerators to SUVs. The chip shortage has thrown into sharp relief the critical role semiconductors play in many aspects of everyday life.

Samsung is significantly falling behind in the rush to bring augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) devices to market, partially due to the company's "obsession" with foldable smartphones, The Korea Herald reports.

The PCI Express 6.0 standard has officially made its debut, meaning that Apple's Mac Pro — released in 2019 — is now several generations behind what's currently available. On Tuesday, PCI-SIG — the organization responsible for PCIe — announced the official release of PCIe 6.0. The new revision brings a multitude of updates and new features to the expansion bus standard.

Facebook worried that an algorithm change would harm right-wing media, so it dinged traffic to liberal news outlets, The Wall Street Journal reported.

For the first time, researchers have shown that dogs can perceive differences between human languages. As detailed in a new study published on Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal NeuroImage, dog brains can detect and distinguish the difference between familiar and unfamiliar speech patterns, and, crucially, between languages.

The ambition is to create a low-cost, open-source alternative to expensive and limited supply mRNA vaccines for developing and under-vaccinated countries.

Mike Judge critiques the nonsense of the modern world in this dystopian 2006 comedy – which, in 2021, feels more like a documentary

One thing that’s hard to grasp about the climate crisis is that big changes can happen fast. In 2019, I was aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308-foot-long scientific research vessel, cruising in front of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. One day, we were sailing in clear seas in front of the glacier. The next day, we were surrounded by icebergs the size of aircraft carriers.

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The donation is in connection with Village for Vets, which aims to end homelessness for veterans in Los Angeles

The U.K. is home to a mature offshore wind sector that looks set to expand in the coming years.

In what’s thought to be an industry first, Korean Air has started using a swarm of drones for the visual inspection of aircraft.

For the first time since the pandemic began, the box office is booming. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” grossed $50 million in Thursday previews alone, a stunning start for a movie set to break pandemic records. Sony Pictures’ “No Way Home” scored the third-largest preview total ever, trailing only those for “Avengers: Endgame” ($60 million) and “The Force Awakens” ($57 million). Previews once featured only late-night screenings, but they have steadily moved earlier in the day; “No...

Speaking "baby talk" to infants not only helps parents and caregivers connect with the young ones in their charge, but it may also help babies learn to make words, a study published Friday by the journal Speech, Language and Hearing found. Mimicking the sound of a smaller vocal tract clues babies into how words should sound coming out of their own mouths, the researchers said.

Over the past three years, the annual global energy consumption of crypto has increased fourfold and its market cap recently reached $1 trillion according to a research report by Deutsche Bank, CoinDesk reported. Bitcoin’s (BTC/USD) environmental impact in particular remains a key issue for crypto users despite barely warranting a mention at the recent COP26 climate conference.

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