watha2020 writes: Spot, the four-legged robot made famous by its YouTube dance video, is being tested as a remote triage system at Boston’s Brigham Women’s Hospital. A Spot robot carrying an iPad allows doctors to interview possibly infected patients at a safe distance. [Spot is also carrying a pouch near the robot’s “tail,” which allows it to deliver small items such…
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Google Experimented on Its Own Employees To Get Them To Eat Healthier
This week Medium’s tech blog OneZero published a 4,500-word look at Google’s “methodical, iterative” and massive “living experiment” on its own employees to see if they can nudge them into making healthier choices when they eat:
The campaign isn’t changing just the food itself, but how it’s presented. Google’s tactics include limiting portion sizes for meat and desserts and redesigning its premises…
Nestle Cannot Claim Bottled Water Is ‘Essential Public Service,’ Court Rules
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Michigan’s second-highest court has dealt a legal blow to Nestle’s Ice Mountain water brand, ruling that the company’s commercial water-bottling operation is “not an essential public service” or a public water supply. The court of appeals ruling is a victory for Osceola township, a small mid-Michigan town that blocked Nestle from building…
London University Is Banning Beef To Help Fight Climate Change
Goldsmiths, a part of the University of London, is fighting climate change by taking beef off the menu. “[The university] will no longer serve beef burgers, beef burritos and the like on its campus,” reports CBS News. From the report: Goldsmiths will take beef products off the menu starting in September, it announced Monday. The effort is part of a mission…
FDA Wants to Lower Amount of Fluoride in Bottled Water, but Scientists Say it is Still Too High
Emma Fiala, TMU Waking Times Rather than combating the high levels of pesticides found in much of the food grown in the United States, the negative effects of factory farming, or the lack of clean water available to numerous communities across the country, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing slightly lowering the standard for… Continue reading FDA Wants to Lower Amount of Fluoride in Bottled Water, but Scientists Say it is Still Too High