Liu Yi is among China’s 7 million ride-hailing drivers. A 36-year-old Wuhan resident, he started driving part time this year when construction work slowed in the face of a nationwide glut of unsold apartments.
Now he predicts another crisis as he stands next to his car watching neighbors order driverless taxis.
“Everyone will go hungry,” he
Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients with brain disorders and a common brain parasite to become frenemies.
A new study published in Nature Microbiology has pioneered the use of a single-celled parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, to inject therapeutic proteins into brain cells. The
If you think it’s hard to get a doctor’s appointment for yourself, try getting one for a pet. Veterinarians in the U.S. are slammed. More than 23 million American households—nearly one in five—adopted a pet during the pandemic, according to the ASPCA. Today, 66% of American households—nearly 87 million—own a pet, according to a 2023–2024 survey by industry as
The idea of transforming Mars into a world more hospitable to human habitation is a regular feature of science fiction. But could this be done in real life?
Scientists are now proposing a new approach to warm up Earth’s planetary neighbor by pumping engineered particles—similar in s
This week Apple quietly introduced a new feature coming to iOS 18’s Safari web browser called Distraction Control. The feature, which you can access now via the iOS 18 developer beta, is unusual because Apple made no mention of it when it first previewed the iPhone’s upcoming opera
Time for a bit o’ brutal honesty: Whenever I hear about a new search tool or info-surfacing service, my first reaction is to proactively cringe a little—and then set my skepticism guard to its highest possible setting.
Surely you’ve had this same sort of response by now, too—right? Since the start of this whole generative-AI explosion, we’ve seen an endless parade of apps touting themselves as The Future of Search™.
And with very rare exception, more or less all of ’em sh
As the so-called “meat culture wars” enters a new chapter, Impossible Foods’s CEO Peter McGuinness believes that plant-based players need to drastically pivot their marketing strategy to compete with the deep pockets of the traditional meat industry. McGuinness shares his plan to center Impossible’s messaging less around climate impact—and instead, letting its product do the talking. McGuinness’s embrace of past mistakes and fluid pragmatism is a crucial case study in evolving to stay releva
Iran is increasing its internet activity that appears intended to influence November’s U.S. presidential election, according to a new report from Microsoft.
As part of the efforts, hackers with ties to the Iran government tried breaking into the account of a high-ranking official on a U.S. presidential campaign in
Samsung Electronics America has issued a recall for more than one million of its Slide-in Electric Ranges after hundreds of the units caught fire, causing injury and property damage. Here’s what you need to know about the recall and which Slide-in Electric Ranges are affected.
Why is there a recall?
At issue is that the front-mounted knobs on the Slide-
Iran is accelerating online activity that appears intended to influence the U.S. election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack,