Drones: Walmart ends business relationship with DroneUp delivery drones company
Walmart still has other drone delivery business relationships but has ended its business with DroneUp.
Nutrition: USDA to release new dietary guidelines
Behind the scenes, the evidence for the guidelines is apparently weak, inconsistent and sometimes contradictory.
Public health: “Quad-demic” Fear Porn
Seeing lots of posts on X pushing the “We are all going to die this winter” from Covid, RSV, flu or sometimes norovirus (hence, the “quad” demic claim). The Data…
AI: To avoid AI student work, you must handwrite your papers
How to automate your handwritten papers.
Education: The public is losing interest in college
"Roughly half (49%) say it’s less important to have a four-year college degree today in order to get a well-paying job than it was 20 years ago"
Nutrition: Vegetarian eating is great as long as you avoid the problems
Health problems associated with vegetarian eating; It's fine if you can avoid the problems.
Privacy: Detailed location data of 800,000 EVs leaked on Amazon Cloud
All your locations are belong to us.
Demographics: Generation Beta, the latest arbitrary classification
Generation Beta starts on January 1, 2025. And all of these labels are arbitrary and meaningless.
Demographics: Youth employment
As someone who had to work from age 10 onward, I was curious about how many others had to do this - and the answer is, not many.