Amazon’s first Fresh Supermarket Store will open its doors this week. Amazon Amazon is opening the first location of its new chain of groceries, designed to target a different set of customers than Whole Foods retailers. The first Amazon Fresh store, in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, will …
Read More »US, China trade jibes as military tensions worsen
(Reuters) – US and China trade jibes as military tensions grow between the world’s two largest economies, with the US Secretary of Defense promising not to “give an inch” in the Pacific and China saying Washington risked the lives of soldiers. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper listens …
Read More »The laser-activated robot from Cornell University is smaller than a paramecium
The robots themselves are only 5 microns thick, 40 microns wide and between 40 and 70 microns long, depending on the design. The brain and body are made up of a photovoltaic circuit, while the legs are made up of a quartet of electrochemical actuators. “In the context of the …
Read More »Asian markets pre-empted Powell’s speech
HOLIDAY PRESS © Associated Press Currency traders on Thursday saw monitors at the foreign exchange headquarters of KEB Hana Bank’s headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Asian stocks pulled back Thursday as investors looked ahead to a speech by the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman for signs of more support for an …
Read More »FDA grants emergency use status to Abbott’s $ 5 COVID-19 rapid antigen test
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to Abbott Laboratories for a $ 5 rapid response COVID-19 antigen test that is about the size of a credit card. The inexpensive, rapid-response test could be administered in an office of a physician as a school nurse and uses …
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