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Many have dreamed of a future with flying cars, eliminating traffic on the morning commute. One company is trying to make that dream a reality. Itay Hod reports. Source link

The countdown is on until NASA’s first moon mission in more than half a century, and the quarantined astronauts who’ll be travelling into space have taken part in a Q&A. Artemis II will take four astronauts – NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, plus Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency – on…

The clocks have gone forward, marking the start of daylight saving time in the UK. On Sunday 29 March the time jumped forward an hour when it hit 1am – and yes, it means you’ll have lost an extra hour of sleep. But the gain of an hour of daylight will mean lighter evenings and…

Pregnant women and cancer patients could face “life-threatening” delays because of a worsening shortage of sonographers, experts warn. The vacancy rate for sonographers is 24.2% across England, rising to 38.2% in some areas, according to the Society of Radiographers (SoR). In addition, one in every 13 (7.6%) sonographers are planning to retire within the next…

The clocks are going forward this weekend, marking the start of daylight saving time in the UK. On Sunday 29 March the time will jump forward an hour when it hits 1am – and yes, it means you will lose an extra hour of sleep. But the gain of an hour of daylight will mean…

How BMI is calculated According to the NHS website, BMI is calculated by dividing an adult’s weight in kilograms by their height in metres squared. For example, if you weigh 70kg (around 11 stone) and are 1.70m (around 5ft 7in) tall, you work out your BMI by: 1. Squaring your height in metres: 1.70 x…

A cloned animal that helped pave the way for the creation of Dolly the sheep has gone on permanent display at a Scottish museum. Morag the sheep and identical twin Megan were cloned from the same embryo and were the first mammals to be successfully replicated from differentiated cells. Their births in June 1995 at…

AI is gaining usage. But there are some things Americans would be comfortable having AI do for them — and plenty of others they aren’t, recent CBS News polling found. Given a list, the sorts of things Americans are comfortable with AI doing tend to be impersonal or even boring tasks, as well as those…

A jury on Wednesday found that Meta and YouTube are liable for creating products that led to harmful and addictive behavior by young users, a landmark decision that could set a legal precedent for similar allegations brought against social media companies.  The jury voted to award $3 million in damages to the lead plaintiff in…

A jury in New Mexico found Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram, misled users about safety and enabled child sexual exploitation on its platforms. A judge has ordered the tech giant to pay $375 million in civil damages. Meta says it will appeal the verdict. Source link