Atlanta GA (SPX) Jul 27, 2021 A new wearable brain-machine interface (BMI) system could improve the quality of life for people with motor dysfunction or paralysis, even those struggling with locked-in syndrome – when a person is fully conscious but unable to move or communicate. A multi-institutional, international team of researchers led by the lab of Woon-Hong Yeo at the Georgia Institute of Technology combined … Continue reading Wearable brain-machine interface turns intentions into actions

Bangkok (AFP) July 30, 2021 Doctors healing patients from hiding, teachers giving up their classrooms and bankers losing their savings are among the stubborn holdouts still on strike to protest Myanmar’s military coup six months ago. Thousands of civil servants joined a mass walkout in the days after the February ouster of Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in an effort to deny the junta legitimacy, … Continue reading ‘They are wicked’: Myanmar’s strike holdouts keep up junta defiance

Washington (AFP) July 30, 2021 The United States is “deeply concerned” over the harassment and intimidation of foreign correspondents covering deadly floods in China, a State Department spokesman said Thursday. His remarks came less than 24 hours after Beijing accused the BBC of broadcasting “fake news” about last week’s devastating flooding in the central province of Henan, and as the British broadcaster said its journalhttp://dlvr.it/S4nf2X Continue reading US condemns ‘harassment’ of foreign journalists in China

Paris (AFP) July 28, 2021 One of the annoying things about global warming – besides the likelihood it will ravage life on Earth – is all the new words we are expected to learn in order to track our descent into climate chaos. Rising temperatures have not only boosted the intensity or frequency of major storms and heatwaves, they have spawned rare or novel weather … Continue reading Solastalgia and doomism: new climate lingo boggles the mind

Laxenburg, Austria (SPX) Jul 28, 2021 IIASA researchers and international colleagues explored the potential of using finely ground rock to help with the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere on the road to achieving net-zero emissions and keeping global warming below 1,5C. To reach the long-term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, it is imperative to actively remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and … Continue reading How crushed rocks can help capture CO2

New Delhi (AFP) July 28, 2021 India, the world’s third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, skipped a key climate meeting of more than 50 countries, the environment ministry said Wednesday, citing technical and other difficulties. The two-day conference in London was the first face-to-face talks among governments in more than 18 months and offered a chance of compromise ahead of the pivotal COP26 climate summit … Continue reading India skips key London climate meet; UK gets warmer and wetter

The impending loss of third-party digital cookies will soon force the e-commerce advertising industry to shift its strategies fast. These developments are issuing a real blow to advertisers seeking to leverage third-party data. At issue now is how brands will regroup from these substantial changes to online advertising.http://dlvr.it/S4g49J Continue reading Marketers Need New Strategies To Parry Cookieless Advertising

Google’s new service aimed at beefing up the search capabilities of retailers’ websites may make those sellers more competitive with Amazon. Google Cloud Retail Search hopes to address the staggering problem of “search abandonment,” which costs retailers more than $300 billion a year in the U.S. alone, according to research performed by The Harris Poll and commissioned by Google Cloud.http://dlvr.it/S4fdJl Continue reading Google Cloud Seeks To Cure Retailers’ Search Woes, Help Compete With Amazon

Paris (AFP) July 26, 2021 Heatwaves that obliterate temperature records as in western Canada last month and Siberia last year are caused by the rapid pace, rather than the amount, of global warming, researchers said Monday. The findings, reported in Nature Climate Change, suggest that humanity is likely to see a lot more deadly scorchers in the coming decades. “Because we are in a period … Continue reading Record-shattering heatwaves caused by pace of warming: study

Trooz, Belgique (AFP) July 27, 2021 It has been two weeks since the torrents of water trapped Nadia Neqrat on the first floor of a house in Belgium’s eastern Trooz district, and she still has nightmares. Now – with the help of relatives, neighbours and volunteers – she is among the residents trying to rebuild their lives. The devastation from the worst floods here in … Continue reading Flood-hit Belgians struggle to get over ‘nightmares’