Shoppers wearing face masks leave a shopping mall in Berlin on April 29, 2020 amid the new coronavirus pandemic COVID-19. john macdougall / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images European stocks fell on Tuesday, reversing the gains of the previous day on concerns about the closure of the state of California …
Read More »Amazon launches shopping carts that eliminate payment lines
Amazon will launch smart shopping carts at its Los Angeles-area grocery store in 2020. Amazon Amazon is launching shopping carts that track items as shoppers add them, then automatically charges for them when they pick up grocery bags, allowing them to skip the checkout line. The Dash Carts will launch …
Read More »UnitedHealth Group offers Dexcom G6 CGMs, Fitbit trackers, virtual training to 230,000 Type 2 members
UnitedHealth Group announced plans this morning to distribute a device-controlled diabetes management model to 230,000 employer-sponsored members with type 2 diabetes at no additional cost. Called Level2 by UnitedHealthcare, the pilot program provides members with a Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitor (CGM) that connects to their smartphone, a Fitbit activity …
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3D structure of apoferritin produced by electron cryoscopy. Credit: Panagiotis Kastritis Biochemists at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have used a standard electron microscope to produce surprisingly good images that are on par with those taken by much more sophisticated equipment. They have managed to determine the structure of …
Read More »S&P 500 shifts from profit to loss as tech giants fall
Well, so much for going back to black for the year. After spending most of the day and putting the index back in positive territory by 2020, the S&P 500 Index (SNPINDEX: ^ SPX) it lost 30 points, or almost 1%, on July 13. Giant snack and drink PepsiCo (NYSE: …
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